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Everything about 1708 totally explainedYear 1708 ( MDCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). Year 1708 of the Swedish calendar was a leap year starting on Wednesday, one day ahead of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1708
January - June
July - December
July 1 - Tewoflos becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
August - Wedding of the future Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
August 23 - Meidingu Pamheiba crowned King of Manipur.
September 28 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
Undated
Kandahar is conquered by Mir Wais.
One third of the population of Masuria, dies of 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, later published as his first book, On the Study Methods of Our Time, in 1709.
Fearful of Swedish attack, Russians blow up the city of Tartu in Estonia.
Ongoing events
Great Northern War (1700 - 1721).
War of the Spanish Succession (1702 - 1713).
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
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Deaths
March 29 - John Partridge, English astrologer and almanack-maker (born 1644)
May 6 - François de Laval, first bishop of New France (born 1623)
May 11 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (born 1646)
May 12 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born 1658)
June 30 - Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (stabbed to death)
September 6 - John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (born 1623)
October 1 - John Blow, British composer (born 1649)
October 2 - Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (born 1650)
October 7 - Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh religious leader (born 1666)
October 10 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (born 1659)
October 11 - Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (born 1651)
October 22 - Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (born 1636)
October 24 - Seki Kowa, Japanese mathematician (born c.1640)
October 28 - Prince George of Denmark, consort of Anne of Great Britain (born 1653)
November 17 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (born 1631)
December 22 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (born 1681)
December 28 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (born 1656)
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