History
1708
General
Population: 658 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Jean-François Regnard (comedy), Jeremy Collier (religious history), Bernard de Montfaucon
Music includes Handel's visit to Rome and Naples, Bach at Weimar
- Medicine: Hermann Boerhaave writes theory of inflammation
- Deaths: Dramatist Christian Weise, Composer Guiseppe Torelli, Poet Petter Dass, Architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Composer John Blow,
Europe
- Great Britain: "Old Pretender" arrives at Firth of Forth – returns four days later to France
British capture Minorca and Sardinia
Marlborough and Eugene defeat French at Oudenarde
British East India Company and New East India Company merged
Professorship of poetry founded at Oxford U
New figures of Gog and Magog at London Guildhall replace earlier ones destroyed by Great Fire
Anne vetoes Parliamentary bill to reorganize Scot militia - Last veto
Capital of Shetland Islands moved from Scalloway to Lerwick
- Holy Roman Empire: First German theater opens in Vienna
Prince Eugene helps defeat French at Oudenarde
- Portugal: Portugal suppresses the Paulistas
- Russia: Peter the Great divides Russia into eight government districts to ease administration – introduces Government reforms
Sweden invades Ukraine
- Spain: War of Spanish Succession continues with Austria, Netherlands and England against French, Germans and Italians
- Sweden: Charles XII invades Ukraine
South
- Carolinas: Slaves exceed numbers of European colonists