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unusual facts about administrative divisions of Russia in 1708–1710



Abel Roper

When Richard Steele lost the post of gazetteer in October 1710, Roper, on whose behalf Lord Denbigh had written to Lord Dartmouth in June, was an unsuccessful candidate for the vacant post.

Advanced Wireless Services

The AWS band uses microwave frequencies in two segments: from 1710 to 1755 MHz for uplink, and from 2110 to 2155 MHz for downlink.

Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein

He was Lord Chamberlain for two crown princes, became in 1710 Imperial Count (Reichsgraf) of the Holy Roman Empire and Count (Graf) in Prussia after the Battle of Malplaquet in which he successfully led the Prussian forces under Prince Eugene.

Alexander Fraser, 14th Lord Saltoun

Alexander Fraser (1710–1751) was the 14th Lord Saltoun, and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland.

Allison Transmission

The result was the V1710 12-cylinder aircraft engine and it made the company, now known as the Allison Engine Company, a major force in aviation.

Angelo Maria Quirini

From 1710 to 1714, he undertook extended educational journeys through England, France, Germany, and the Netherlands and corresponded or even met with eminent scholars of his time such as Bernard de Montfaucon, Isaac Newton, or Voltaire.

Burton baronets

The fourth and last Baronet was imprisoned for debt in 1710 and following conviction for theft in 1722 was transported.

Carnatic region

The Nawab Saadet-Allah of Arcot (1710–1732) established his independence; his successor Dost Ali (1732–1740) conquered and annexed Madura in 1736, and his successors were confirmed in their position as Nawabs of the Carnatic by the Nizam of Hyderabad after that potentate had established his power in southern India.

Chatham Township, New Jersey

The village of Chatham had been settled in 1710 as John Day's Bridge and, in 1773 when New Jersey was an English province, adopted the name of Chatham to honor William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.

Conyers Middleton

Middleton was one of the thirty fellows of Trinity College who on 6 February 1710 petitioned the Bishop of Ely, as visitor of the college, to take steps against Richard Bentley the Master, at odds with the fellowship.

Cornelius Ó Caoimh

He was listed as an Irish exile in Brittany in 1710, when he was nominated for the rectorship of St. Similien's parish, Nantes.

David McGregor

David McGregore (1710–1777), member of colonial America Christian clergy

David Ramsay

Sir David Ramsay, 4th Baronet (after 1673–1710), among Scottish representatives to 1st Parliament of Great Britain MP for Scotland & Kincardineshire

Diniktum

It enjoyed independence briefly during the 18th century under the reigns of the Amorite chieftains (ra-bí-an MAR.DÚ) Itur-šarrum, attested on a single seal from Ešnunna, and Sîn-gāmil, son of Sîn-šēmi and a contemporary of Zimri-Lim (ca. 1710–1698 BC short) of Mari and Ḫammu-rapī (ca. 1728–1686 BC short) of Babylon.

Egocentric predicament

Since 1710, when George Berkeley broached in his fashion the problem of the egocentric predicament, denying the existence of material substance except as ideas in the minds of perceivers, and thus asserting a problematical relation with reality, hence has this thesis proved a stumbling block.

Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen

# Ludwig Frederick (b. Hildburghausen, 11 September 1710 – d. Nimwegen, 10 June 1759), married on 4 May 1749 to Christine Luise von Holstein-Plön.

Franz Anton Bustelli

It was a relatively late entrant to the group of porcelain factories set up in Europe as the secrets of the techniques developed by Johann Friedrich Böttger for the Meissen factory in Saxony (established in 1710) gradually leaked out.

Frederick Charles of Stolberg-Gedern

After his father's death in 1710 he received by his father's will dated 23 January 1699 the Lordship of Gedern and one sixth of the Lordship of Rochefort.

Henry Payne

Henry Nevil Payne (died c. 1710), British dramatist and Roman Catholic agitator

John Cruger, Jr.

(July 18, 1710 – December 27, 1791) was the speaker of the Province of New York assembly and the 41st Mayor of New York City.

John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven and Stenton

Two of his speeches, one being the famous one of November 1706, were published in an appendix to Daniel Defoe's History of the Union (first printed in 1710).

John Philips

A monument in his memory was erected in 1710 by Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt in Westminster Abbey, between the monuments to Chaucer and Drayton, with the motto Honos erit huic quoque pomo from the title page of Cyder.

Joseph Trapp

He assisted Henry Sacheverell at his trial in 1709 and 1710, and on Sacheverell's recommendation became in April 1710 his successor in the lectureship at Newington, Surrey.

Manor of Byng

The manor passed to his son and heir William Nassau de Zuylestein, 2nd Earl of Rochford, who died in 1710 at the battle of Almenar.

Marguerite de Launay, baronne de Staal

Mlle de Launay lived there until 1710 in the enjoyment of the utmost consideration, and held a little court of her own, which included Brunel, the friend of Fontenelle, the sieur de la Rey and the abbé Vertot.

Mascate War

As was being implemented the separation between the two cities in 1710, the lords of Olinda revolted, having as one of the leaders mill owner Bernardo Vieira de Melo.

Michael Biddulph

Sir Michael Biddulph, 2nd Baronet (c. 1652–1718), English politician, Member of Parliament for Lichfield five times (1679–1710)

Moral treatment

Interest in mental illness was a feature of the Edinburgh medical school in the eighteenth century, with influential teachers including William Cullen (1710–1790) and Robert Whytt (1714–1766) emphasising the clinical importance of psychiatric disorders.

Muggletonianism

Notable Muggletonian writers include Laurence Clarkson (1615 - 1667) an itinerant preacher born in Preston, Lancashire; John Saddington (1634? - 1679) a London sugar merchant, originally from Arnesby, Leicestershire; Thomas Tomkinson (1631 - 1710) a Staffordshire yeoman farmer who moved to London in the 1680s; and Isaac Frost (1793 - 1858) and Joseph Frost (1791 - 1857), brothers who ran the family metallurgy business in Clerkenwell, London.

Old Danish Pointer

The origin of the breed can be traced back to about the year 1710 when a man named Morten Bak, living in Glenstrup near the towns of Randers and Hobro, crossed gypsy dogs through 8 generations with local farmdogs and in this way established a pure breed of piebald white and brown dogs called Bakhounds or Old Danish Pointers.

Ōoka clan

The clan’s fortunes went into eclipse when Ōoka Tadashina (1667–1710) so displeased Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi that he was exiled to Hachijojima and Ōoka Tadafusa (1650–1696) was forced to commit seppuku for killing a retainer of the Shimazu clan in a brawl.

Paul Möhring

Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring (also Paul Mohr; 21 July 1710, Jever – 28 October 1792) was a German physician, botanist and zoologist.

Peder Horrebow

In 1728, the great fire of Copenhagen destroyed all of the papers and observations made by Rømer, who had died in 1710.

Pinel

Julie Pinel (1710–1737), French composer and harpsichord teacher

Pitminster

Richard Treat (1584 - 1669) and his son Robert Treat (1622 – 1710), who went on to be an American politician, lived in the village.

Rachel Ruysch

The traveller Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach visited her father's cabinet in 1710 and was received by her in her studio.

Radisson, Wisconsin

The village is located within the Town of Radisson and was named in honor of the early French explorer, Pierre-Esprit Radisson (c.1636-1710).

Robert Anstruther

Sir Robert Anstruther, 1st Baronet (1658–1737) (additionally of Balcaskie, Fife and Braemore, Caithness in 1698) MP for Fife 1710

Sansevieria

The genus was originally named Sanseverinia by Petagna to honor his patron Pietro Antonio Sanseverino, Count of Chiaromonte (1724-1771), but the name was altered for unknown reasons by Thunberg, possibly influenced by the name of Raimondo di Sangro (1710–1771), prince of San Severo in Italy.

Saxe-Römhild

The lands of Saxe-Römhild went to the fourth son, who became Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild (1650–1710).

Suomenlinna

Augustin Ehrensvärd (1710–1772) and his gigantic fortification work on the islands off the town of Helsinki brought the district a new and unexpected importance.

Tatenhill

Beside the church stands the Old Rectory which was built in 1710 for William Binckes, Dean of Lichfield.

Tauentzien

Friedrich Bogislav von Tauentzien (1710-1791), Prussian general of the Seven Years' War

Turbo-compound engine

Turbo-compound versions of the Napier Deltic, Rolls-Royce Crecy, and Allison V-1710 were constructed but none was developed beyond the prototype stage.

Valentine Hollingsworth

Valentine Hollingsworth (August 15, 1632 – October 13, 1710) was one of the earliest settlers of Brandywine Hundred in northern New Castle County, Delaware and a founder of the Hollingsworth family in America.


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