1708
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This article is about the year 1708.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1670s 1680s 1690s – 1700s – 1710s 1720s 1730s |
| Years: | 1705 1706 1707 – 1708 – 1709 1710 1711 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1708 MDCCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2461 |
| Armenian calendar | 1157 ԹՎ ՌՃԾԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6458 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -136–-135 |
| Bengali calendar | 1115 |
| Berber calendar | 2658 |
| British Regnal year | 6 Ann. 1 – 7 Ann. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2252 |
| Burmese calendar | 1070 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7216–7217 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年十二月初九日 (4344/4404-12-9) — to —
戊子年十一月二十日(4345/4405-11-20) |
| Coptic calendar | 1424–1425 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1700–1701 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5468–5469 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1764–1765 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1630–1631 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4809–4810 |
| Holocene calendar | 11708 |
| Iranian calendar | 1086–1087 |
| Islamic calendar | 1119–1120 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōei 5 (宝永5年) |
| Korean calendar | 4041 |
| Minguo calendar | 204 before ROC 民前204年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2251 |
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Year 1708 (MDCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar. In the Swedish calendar it was a leap year starting on Wednesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- March 11 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
- March 23 – James Francis Edward Stuart unsuccessfully tries to land at the Firth of Forth.
[edit] July–December
- July 1 – Tewoflos becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
- August – The future Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor weds Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
- August 23 – Meidingu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
- August 29 – A native American attack in Haverhill, Massachusetts kills 16 settlers.
- September 28 – Battle of Lesnaya: Peter the Great defeats the Swedes.
[edit] Date unknown
- Kandahar is conquered by Mir Wais.
- One third of the population of Masuria dies of the plague.
- Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed as chamber musician and organist at the court in Weimar, Germany.
- Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico delivers his inaugural lecture to the University of Naples, published as his first book, On the Study Methods of Our Time, in 1709.
- Fearful of a Swedish attack, the Russians blow up the city of Tartu in Estonia.
- Merger (with consent of the Parliament of Great Britain) of the Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies and the more recently established English Company Trading to the East Indies to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies, known as the Honourable East India Company.[1]
[edit] Births
- January 25 – Pompeo Batoni, Italian painter (d. 1787)
- April 23 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (d. 1754)
- October 16 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (d. 1777)
- October 22 – Frederic Louis Norden, Danish explorer (d. 1742)
- November 15 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778)
- December 8 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765)
- date unknown
- Richard Dawes, British classical scholar (d. 1766)
- John Hulse, Anglican priest (d. 1790)
[edit] Deaths
- May 6 – François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623)
- May 11 – Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)
- May 12 – Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
- June 30 – Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (stabbed to death) (b. 1706)
- September 6 – John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
- October 1 – John Blow, British composer (b. 1649)
- October 2 – Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
- October 7 – Guru Gobind Singh, 10th Guru Sahib of Sikhism, Founder and Chief General of the Khalsa Army, social reformist, poet, and revolutionary (b. 1666)
- October 10 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
- October 11 – Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651)
- October 22 – Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (b. 1636)
- October 24 – Seki Kowa, Japanese mathematician (b. c. 1640)
- October 28 – Prince George of Denmark, consort of Anne of Great Britain (b. 1653)
- November 17 – Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
- December 22 – Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)
- December 28 – Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (b. 1656)
[edit] References
- ^ Landow, George P. (2010). "The British East India Company — the Company that Owned a Nation (or Two)". The Victorian Web. http://victorianweb.org/history/empire/india/eic.html. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
