1710 in literature
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See also: 1709 in literature, other events of 1710, 1711 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Colley Cibber becomes manager of Drury Lane theatre
New Books
- Semele, an "unacted opera", by William Congreve
- Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley
- Théodicée (`Theodicy'), by Gottfried Leibniz
- Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
- Reflections on Learning, showing the Insufficiency thereof in its several particulars, in order to evince the usefulness and necessity of Revelation (part 2) by Thomas Baker
- Collection of Controversial Letters by George Hickes
- Anfangsgründe aller mathematischen Wissenschaften by Christian Wolff (philosopher)
Births
- April 26, Thomas Reid, Scottish philosophical writer
Deaths
- April 28 - Thomas Betterton, actor
- unknown date - Henry Aldrich, theologian and philosopher
- unknown date - Louise de la Vallière, later the subject of a novel by Alexandre Dumas