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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s
Years: 1708 1709 1710 1711 1712 - 1713 - 1714 1715 1716 1717 1718
Events
- April 11 - War of the Spanish Succession: Treaty of Utrecht
- first Orrery built by George Graham
Year in topic
Births
- March - Francis Lewis - a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
- April 12 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal - French writer
- March 15 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille - French astronomer
- May 3 - Alexis Claude Clairault - French mathematician
- September 23 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain
- October 5 - Denis Diderot - French writer and philosopher
- Allan Ramsay - Scottish painter
- Richard Wilson - Welsh landscape painter
- Junipero Serra - a Spanish Franciscan
Deaths
- January 8 - Arcangelo Corelli - composer
- May 20 - Thomas Sprat - English divine
- Thomas Ellwood - English religious writer
- Elizabeth Barry - English actor
