Anniversarial — 2010
1710
The Copyright Act comes into effect in Britain on 10 April. The "Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned" was the first copyright act in Europe.
Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2010:
Births
- Argoty, Jacques Fabien Gautier d' (1710–1781), French engraver
- Arnay, Jean Rodolphe d' (1710–1765), Swiss teacher, author
- Bernoulli, Johann, II (1710–1790), Swiss mathematician
- Berthoud, Jean Henri (1710–1790), Swiss judge
- Boswell, John (1710–1780), uncle of James Boswell
- Bourgeois, Nicolas Louis (1710–1776), French poet, historian, academy member
- Boyle, Margaret, countess of Cork and Orrery (1710–1758), Irish aristocrat
- Brancas, Louis Bufile de (1710–1753), French aristocrat, amateur playwright
- Calas, Anne Rose (b. 1710), wife of Jean Calas, legal victim
- Clerc, David François (1710–1777), Swiss civil servant
- Cullen, William (1710–1790), Scottish medical scientist, teacher
- Erskine, Sir Harry, 5th baronet Erskine of Alva and Cambuskenneth (1710–1765), Scottish general, politician
- Favart, Charles Simon (1710–1792), French playwright, theatre director
- Fielding, Sarah (1710–1768), English novelist
- Fiquet Du Boccage, Anne Marie (1710–1802), French author, academy member
- Grumet, Baptiste Philippe Aimé (1710–1795), French Catholic priest
- Hallows, Mary (1710–1790), English housekeeper
- Haren, Willem van (1710–1768), Dutch poet, politician
- Joly de Fleury, Guillaume François Louis (1710–1786), French magistrate
- Kincaid, Alexander (1710–1777), Scottish bookseller, printer
- La Broue, Frédéric Guillaume de (c. 1710–1782), Dutch protestant minister, preacher
- Laget, Guillaume (1710–1770), Swiss protestant minister
- Le Fèvre, Marie François de Paule, marquis d'Ormesson (1710–1775), French statesman, aristocrat
- Lorraine, Élisabeth Sophie de, duchesse de Richelieu (1710–1740), French aristocrat
- Louis XV, king of France (1710–1774), French monarch
- Lowth, Robert, bishop of London (1710–1787), English churchman, scholar, academy member
- Macon de Chapelle, Antoine Joseph Marie, comte de Jumilhac (1710–1789?), French army officer
- Nesle, Louise Julie de, comtesse de Mailly (1710–1751), French aristocrat, royal mistress
- Marsy, François Marie de (1710–1763), French author, historian
- May, Margaritha von (1710–1791), Swiss judge's wife
- Meiningen, Louisa Dorothea von, duchess of Saxe-Gotha (1710–1767), German monarch
- Melmoth, William (c. 1710–1799), English author, translator
- Mill, John (1710–1771), Scottish merchant
- Monteil de Brunier, Antoine Honneste de, marquis d'Adhémar (1710–1785), French courtier, army officer
- North, Rev. George (1710–1772), English clergyman
- O'Conor, Charles (1710–1791), Irish historian, activist
- Paciaudi, Paolo Maria (1710–1785), Italian monk, scholar, librarian
- Phelps, Richard (1710–1785), English painter
- Pictet, Gabriel (1710–1783), Swiss general in Sardinian service
- Prunay, Nicolas François de, chevalier de Lemps (1710–after 1777), French general
- Querini, Andrea (1710–1795), Italian senator, poet, literary patron
- Reid, Thomas (1710–1796), Scottish scientist, philosopher, academy member
- Saussure, Judith de (1710–1803), Swiss army officer's wife
- Schudt, Bernhard Jacob (1710–1785), German lawyer, politician
- Soret, Jean (b. 1710), French lawyer, newspaper editor
- Talbot, Richard, 1st earl of Tyrconnell (1710–1752), Scottish Jacobite general
- Taylor, Robert (1710–1762), English physician, academy member
- Trembley, Abraham (1710–1784), Swiss naturalist
- Tronchin, Jean Robert (1710–1792), Swiss lawyer
- Walther, Georg Conrad (1710–1778), German printer, bookseller
- Ward, Caesar (1710–1759), English printer
- Yart, Antoine (1710–1791), French author, poet, translator
Deaths
- Addison, Lancelot (1680–1710), English classicist
- Addison, Mrs Mary (d. 1710), English colonial governor's wife
- Berkeley, Charles, 2nd earl of Berkeley (c. 1649–1710), English aristocrat
- Beughem, Cornelius à (c. 1637–c. 1710), Dutch bookseller, bibliographer
- Clarke, Edward (1650–1710), English politician
- Codrington, Christopher (1668–1710), English colonial governor, benefactor
- Rømer, Olaus (1644–1710), Danish astronomer
- Swift, Mrs Abigail (1640–1710), mother of Jonathan Swift
- Thompson, John, 1st Baron Haversham (1648–1710), English politician