The severity of the winter of 1708-1709…
1710 CE
The severity of the winter of 1708-1709 is thought to be an important factor in the emigration of the German Palatines from central Europe.
France is particularly hard hit by the winter, with the subsequent famine estimated to have caused six hundred thousand deaths by the end of 1710.
Because the famine occurs during wartime, there are contemporary nationalist claims that there were no deaths from starvation in the kingdom of France in 1709.
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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, ...
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