When Harley was ousted from the ministry in 1708 Defoe continued writing it to support Godolphin, then again to support Harley and the Tories in the Tory ministry of 1710 to 1714.

The military regiment was created in 1708.

The church was built in 1708 in Baroque style and contains some curious paintings by local artists.

The first child of Augustine Washington ( 1694 – 1743 ) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington ( 1708 – 1789 ), George Washington was born on their Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

In 1692, as a result of the inheritance of the Palatinate by a Catholic branch of the Wittelsbach family, which threatened to upset the religious balance of the College of Electors, the number of electors was increased to nine, with a seat being granted to the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who became known as the Elector of Hanover ( the Reichstag officially confirmed the creation in 1708 ).

The Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg were elevated by the Holy Roman Emperor to the rank of Prince-Elector in 1692, and this elevation was confirmed by the Diet in 1708.

However, the actual term " palaeography " was coined ( in Latin ) by Bernard de Montfaucon, a Benedictine monk, in the title of his Palaeographia Graeca ( 1708 ), which remained a standard work in the specific field of Greek palaeography for more than a century.

Following commercial rivalries between the original English East India Company and a New East India Company created in 1698, a new Company was formed in 1708 by amalgamation, and entitled the “ United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East Indies ”.

Scalloway on the west coast, which was the capital until 1708, has a population of less than 1, 000.

The first clinic with the specific intention to facilitate the practical education of medical students was the Nosocomium Academicum, founded in 1708 and located to the Oxenstierna Palace at Riddartorget beside the cathedral ( see illustration above ).

In 1708, the fortress was held by insurgent Cossack Kondraty Bulavin.

The strategy of the Warsaw Pact was dominated by the desire of the Soviet Union to prevent, at all costs, the recurrence of another large scale invasion of its territory by hostile Western powers, akin to those carried out by the Swedish Empire in 1708, Napoleonic France in 1812, the Central Powers during the First World War and most recently by Nazi Germany in 1941.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC ( 15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778 ), called William Pitt the Elder by historians, was a British Whig statesman who led Britain during the Seven Years ' War ( known as the French and Indian War in the United States ).

William Pitt was born at Golden Square, Westminster on 15 November 1708.

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

Year 1708 ( MDCCVIII ) was a leap year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Born at Halle an der Saale and baptized at Kirche St. Moritz on 7 August 1737, Struensee was the third child of six born to Pietist theologian and minister Adam Struensee ( baptized in Neuruppin on 8 September 1708 – Rendsburg, 20 June 1791 ), Pfarrer (" curate ") in Halle an der Saale in 1732, " Dr. theol.

Allenstein was sacked by Swedish troops in 1655 and 1708 during the Polish-Swedish wars, and the town's population was nearly wiped out in 1710 by epidemics of bubonic plague and cholera.

After the end of the Spanish period following the European wars of the early 18th century, the brief period of Austrian rule ( 1708 – 1717 ) was succeeded by domination by the Piemontese, who then took over the Title of Kingdom of Sardinia ( 1720 – 1861 ).

Prince George's County was named after Prince George of Denmark ( 1653 – 1708 ), husband of Queen Anne of Great Britain and brother of King Christian V of Denmark and Norway.

A succession of European wars expanded his German domains during his lifetime, and in 1708 he was ratified as prince-elector of Hanover.

After 1708, Saransk was assigned to Azov Province, and later to Kazan Governorate.

In the initial version of Russian civil script of Tsar Peter I ( 1708 ), the ⟨ Ѕ ⟩ was assigned the sound, and the letter ⟨ З ⟩ was abolished.

On 31 March 1708 Brett assigned his share in the patent to Robert Wilks, Richard Estcourt, and Cibber, and these actors planned for a secession.

In 1708, the Tsardom of Kazan was abolished, and Kazan became the seat of Kazan Governorate.

The term Tsardom of Kazan was in use until 1708 when the Kazan Governorate was formed.

In 1708, the Khanate of Kazan was abolished and the province was placed under the control of a new Kazan Governorate.

The Kazan Governorate ( ; / Казан губернасы ; ) or Government of Kazan was a governorate ( guberniya ) of Imperial Russia from 1708 – 1920, with the city of Kazan as its capital.

It was made the seat of Smolensk Governorate in 1708.

In 1708, Ingria was designated governorate ( Ingermanland Governorate in 1708-1710, Saint Petersburg Governorate in 1710-1914, Petrograd Governorate in 1914-1924, Leningrad Governorate in 1924-1927 ).

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708, Vologda lost its functions as an administrative center and was included as a town of Archangelgorod Governorate.

In 1708, most of the territory was organized into Ingermanland Governorate under Governor General Alexander Menshikov.

Between 1708 and 1719, Kursk was a part of the newly created Kiev Governorate.

In 1708, Oryol was included as a part of Kiev Governorate ; in 1719, Oryol Province was created within Kiev Governorate.

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, it was included into Ingermanland Governorate ( known since 1710 as Saint Petersburg Governorate ).

It was bounded to successively Kiev Governorate ( 1708 – 1727 ), Belgorod Governorate ( 1727 – 1779 ), and Kursk Viceroyalty ( 1779 – 1797 ).

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, Staraya Russa was included into Ingermanland Governorate ( known since 1710 as Saint Petersburg Governorate ).

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, Beloozero was included into Ingermanland Governorate ( known since 1710 as Saint Petersburg Governorate ) and named one of the towns constituting the governorate.

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, it was included into Ingermanland Governorate ( known since 1710 as Saint Petersburg Governorate ).

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*, a 70-gun third rate launched 1708 ; wrecked 1711.

" Pitt, William, first earl of Chatham the elder ( 1708 – 1778 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, May 2009 accessed 28 May 2012

The characters in these early, baroque zarzuelas were a mixture of gods, mythological creatures and rustic or pastoral comedy characters ; Antonio de Literes's popular Acis y Galatea ( 1708 ) is yet another example.

Great fires ravaged the city in 1598, 1651, 1681, 1708, twice in 1717, 1742, 1788, 1841 and 1842 ; these were only the worst cases.

Newton referred to his plans for a second edition in correspondence with Flamsteed in November 1694: Newton also maintained annotated copies of the first edition specially bound up with interleaves on which he could note his revisions ; two of these copies still survive: but he had not completed the revisions by 1708, and of two would-be editors, Newton had almost severed connections with one, Fatio de Duillier, and the other, David Gregory seems not to have met with Newton's approval and was also terminally ill, dying later in 1708.

His administrative skills having been noticed, Walpole was promoted by Lord Godolphin ( the Lord High Treasurer and leader of the Cabinet ) to the position of Secretary at War in 1708 ; for a short period of time in 1710 he also simultaneously held the post of Treasurer of the Navy.

King Agaja ( sometimes spelled Agadja ; also known as Trudo Agaja or Trudo Audati ) was the fifth King of Dahomey and ruled from 1708 to 1740.

* The Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana, public library founded by Count Giovanni M. Bertolo, opened 1708 ;

* Hedwig Sophia ( 1681 – 1708 ), duchess of Holstein-Gottorp and grandmother of Tsar Peter III ;

His subsequent victory at the Battle of Oudenaarde on 11 July 1708 demoralised the French army in Flanders ; his eye for ground, his sense of timing and his keen knowledge of the enemy were again amply demonstrated.

Francis I ( Francis Stephen ; 8 December 1708 – 18 August 1765 ) was Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany, though his wife effectively executed the real powers of those positions.

In his adolescence, he visited large cities in countries such as The Netherlands and France, and lived for a short period of time in Rome ; and for a longer period of time in Oxford, England ( 1706 – 1708 ), which was rare during that time as intellectual life was centered in continental Europe.

Réaumur ’ s scientific papers deal with many branches of science ; his first, in 1708, was on a general problem in geometry ; his last, in 1756, on the forms of birds ' nests.

He was thus a member both of the Academy of Inscriptions and of the Academy of Sciences ; and in 1697 he became perpetual secretary to the latter, an office he held for forty-two years ; and it was in this official capacity that he wrote the Histoire du renouvellement de l ' Académie des Sciences ( Paris, 3 vols., 1708, 1717, 1722 ) containing extracts and analyses of the proceedings, and also the éloges of the members, written with great simplicity and delicacy.

The Gonzagas were a royal family that ruled Mantua in Northern Italy from 1328 to 1708 ; they also ruled Monferrato in Piedmont and Nevers in France, and also many other lesser fiefs in Italy and Europe.

Urban conflicts in Free Imperial Cities, which sometimes amounted to class warfare, were not uncommon in the Early Modern Age, particularly in the 17th century ( Lübeck, 1598 – 1669 ; Schwäbisch Hall, 1601 – 1604 ; Frankfurt, 1612 – 1614 ; Wezlar, 1612 – 1615 ; Erfurt, 1648 – 1664 ; Cologne, 1680 – 1685 ; Hamburg 1678-1693, 1702 – 1708 ).