Refugees fleeing the Russian conquest of Livonia…

Beijing becomes the largest city of the world in 1710, taking the lead from Constantinople.

The death toll in Swedish Estonia and Swedish Livonia (both of which capitulate to the Russian tsar in 1710) totals up to seventy-five of the population between 1709 and 1711.

The Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala is founded in Uppsala, Sweden, as the Collegium curiosorum ("College of the Curious").

The plague, from 1710 to 1711, afflicts Stralsund, ...

...Altentreptow, ...

...Wolgast, which loses forty percent of its inhabitants, and ...

...Wollin, all in Swedish Pomerania, as well as ...

...Stargard and Bahn in Prussian Pomerania and ...

...Prenzlau across the border with Brandenburg (all in 1710).

The plague, in  addition to Damm, and Stettin, where two thousand people die, ravages Pasewalk from 1709 to 1710, killing sixty-seven percent of its inhabitants, ...