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Centuries:	17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades:	1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s
Years:	1705 1706 1707 - 1708 - 1709 1710 1711

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Year 1708 (MDCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). Year 1708 of the Swedish calendar was a leap year starting on Wednesday, one day ahead of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1708

Kandahar is conquered by Mir Wais.
One third of the population of Masuria dies of the plague.
Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed as chamber musician and organist at the court in Weimar, Germany.
Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico delivers his inaugural lecture to the University of Naples, later published as his first book, On the Study Methods of Our Time, in 1709.
Fearful of a Swedish attack, the Russians blow up the city of Tartu in Estonia.

See also Category: 1708 births.

March 29 - John Partridge, English astrologer and almanack-maker (b. 1644)
May 6 - François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623)
May 11 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)
May 12 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
June 30 - Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (stabbed to death)
September 6 - John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
October 1 - John Blow, British composer (b. 1649)
October 2 - Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
October 7 - Guru Gobind Singh, Punjabi scholar, theologian, social reformist, poet, head of a faith, representative of an ethnicity and a military head (b. 1666)
October 10 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
October 11 - Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651)
October 22 - Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (b. 1636)
October 24 - Seki Kowa, Japanese mathematician (b. c. 1640)
October 28 - Prince George of Denmark, consort of Anne of Great Britain (b. 1653)
November 17 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
December 22 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)
December 28 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (b. 1656)

See also Category: 1708 deaths.