1708
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| Decades: | 1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s |
| Years: | 1705 1706 1707 - 1708 - 1709 1710 1711 |
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Year 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.
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[edit] Events of 1708
[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] Undated
- 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, later 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.
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1708 MDCCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2461 |
| Armenian calendar | 1157 ԹՎ ՌՃԾԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -136 – -135 |
| Berber calendar | 2658 |
| 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 | 1763 – 1764 |
| - 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 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2251 |
- 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)
- See also Category: 1708 births.
[edit] Deaths
- March 29 - John Partridge, English astrologer and almanack-maker (b. 1644)
- 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)
- 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, Punjabi scholar, theologian, social reformist, poet, head of a faith, representative of an ethnicity and a military head (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)
- See also Category: 1708 deaths.
