Transport on a country-wide scale began in 1710 with the introduction by the General Post Office of mail coaches on the main routes between towns.

* 1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, enters into force in Great Britain.

The Statute of Anne came into force in 1710.

The British Statute of Anne ( 1710 ) further alluded to individual rights of the artist, beginning: " Whereas Printers, Booksellers, and other Persons, have of late frequently taken the Liberty of Printing ... Books, and other Writings, without the Consent of the Authors ... to their very great Detriment, and too often to the Ruin of them and their Families :" A right to benefit financially from the work is articulated, and court rulings and legislation have recognized a right to control the work, such as ensuring that the integrity of it is preserved.

The British Statute of Anne 1710 and the Statute of Monopolies 1623 are now seen as the origins of copyright and patent law respectively.

The Statute of Anne came into force in 1710

This bill, which after substantial amendments was granted Royal Assent on 5 April 1710, became known as the Statute of Anne due to its passage during the reign of Queen Anne.

Whatever the motivations, the bill was passed on 5 April 1710, and is commonly known simply as the Statute of Anne due its passage during the reign of Queen Anne.

Patterson, writing separately, does note the differences between the Licensing Act and the Statute of Anne ; the question of censorship was, by 1710, out of the question, and in that regard the Statute is distinct, not providing for censorship.

* Images and transcription of the Statute of Anne, as published 1710

The British Statute of Anne 1710, full title " An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned ", was the first copyright statute.

The Statute of Anne came into force in 1710

The coming into force of the Statute of Anne in April 1710 marked a historic moment in the development of copyright law.

The 1710 British Statute of Anne did not apply to the American colonies, although some scholars have asserted otherwise.

The Statute of Anne differed from the 1790 Act, however, in providing a 21-year term of protection, with no option for renewal, for works already published at the time the law went into effect ( 1710 ).

This was in spite of the fact that " he Statute of Anne 1710 tried to limit this by declaring that all published works would get a copyright term of fourteen years, renewable once if the author was alive, and that all works already published ... would get a single term of twenty-one additional years.

The first copyright statute was the Statute of Anne, 8 Anne c. 19 ( 1710 ), in which Parliament granted a fourteen-year term for a copyright, renewable once.

Great Britain was the first to change this in 1710 with the Statute of Anne, which stated that authors, not publishers, had the right to claim a monopoly on the work.

Massachusetts militia made repeated attempts to capture the Capital Port Royal, Acadia, but it required a major naval expedition authorized by Queen Anne to achieve the Conquest of Acadia in 1710.

In the spring of 1710, Anne dismissed Godolphin and the Junto ministers, replacing them with Tories.

The Whigs grew more powerful during the course of the War of the Spanish Succession, until in 1710 Anne dismissed many of them from office.

Etow Oh Koam, one of their chiefs, accompanied three Mohawk chiefs on a state visit to Queen Anne and her government in England in 1710.

The Mahican chief Etow Oh Koam, referred to as one of the Four Mohawk Kings in a state visit to Queen Anne in 1710.

In certain contexts it may be used to cover the whole period of the later Stuart monarchs as far as the death of Queen Anne and the accession of the Hanoverian George I in 1714 ; for example Restoration comedy typically encompasses works written as late as 1710.

On a trip to London to visit Queen Anne in 1710, arranged by the Albany mayor Peter Schuyler, the Four Mohawk Kings asked for help in defense against the French, and for Anglican missionaries to offset French Catholic influence.

However, in the Parliament of 1710 the Tories had gained control of the House of Commons, and they wished for an end to Great Britain's participation in a European war ; Queen Anne and her advisors had also come to the same position.

He married Lady Elizabeth Percy daughter of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, by whom, he had an only son Algernon ( 1670 – 1710 ), who succeeded him as the 2nd Earl of Essex and a daughter, Anne, who married Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle.

Whiston was expelled from his chair on 30 October 1710 ; at the appeal of the heads of colleges, Queen Anne awarded Saunderson a Master of Arts degree on 19 November 1711 so that he would be eligible to succeed Whiston as Lucasian professor, and he was chosen as the fourth Lucasian professor the next day.

In the reign of Queen Anne ( 1702 – 1714 ), the same basic design was used, with threepences produced in 1703 – 1710 and 1713.

Palatine Germans arrived around 1710, sponsored by Queen Anne.

But when the Tories came into power in 1710 Prior's diplomatic abilities were again called into action, and until the death of Anne he held a prominent place in all negotiations with the French court, sometimes as secret agent, sometimes in an equivocal position as ambassador's companion, sometimes as fully accredited but very unpunctually paid ambassador.

After finishing his studies he went on long educational voyages from 1710 to 1724 through Europe, visiting other German states, England, Holland, Italy, and France, meeting with many famous mathematicians, such as Gottfried Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Nicholas I Bernoulli.

1678, Harvard College ; A. M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow ) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer ; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.

After the New England Conquest of Acadia in 1710, mainland Nova Scotia was under the control of New England, but both present-day New Brunswick and virtually all of present-day Maine remained contested territory between New England and New France.

The plague had disappeared from England, never to return, for more than thirty years before the practice of quarantine against it was definitely established by the Quarantine Act 1710 ( 9 Ann.

For a number of years after the passing of the first Quarantine Act ( 1710 ) the protective practices in England were of the most haphazard and arbitrary kind.

Following the 1707 union between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, Newton used his previous experience to direct the 1707 – 1710 Scottish recoinage, resulting in a common currency for the new Kingdom of Great Britain.

The Bank of England had been operating a state lottery on behalf of the government which had not been particularly successful in 1710 and another had already begun in 1711.

Among the early settlers of this area was the family of Henry Robason, who is said to have been born in 1710 in England.

After the New England Conquest of Acadia in 1710, mainland Nova Scotia was under the control of New England, but both present-day New Brunswick and virtually all of present-day Maine remained contested territory between New England and New France.

After the New England Conquest of Acadia in 1710, mainland Nova Scotia was under the control of New England, but both present-day New Brunswick and virtually all of present-day Maine remained contested territory between New England and New France.

About 1700, he settled in England where he was one of the founders, in 1710, of The Academy of Vocal Music, which in 1726 was renamed The Academy of Ancient Music.

His father's line emigrated to the North American colonies, arriving in New York in 1710, the year of a massive immigration of nearly 2800 Palatine Germans, whose transportation of refugees from London was paid by Queen Anne's government of England.

Never countenancing the continuation of the nonjuring schism, Dodwell returned to the Church of England in 1710, following the death of William Lloyd, the deprived bishop of Norwich and Thomas Ken's decision to relinquish his claim to the see of Bath and Wells.

The method is credited to the mathematician Thomas Simpson ( 1710 – 1761 ) of Leicestershire, England.

Her new husband's family had ties with the British ; his grandfather Sagayendwarahton ( Old Smoke ) was one of the Four Mohawk Kings to visit England in 1710.

Taking the offensive he captured Port Mahon, Minorca, and after a visit to England, where he took part in the impeachment of Sacheverell, he returned to Spain and in 1710 helped to win the battles of Almenar and of Saragossa, his perseverance enabling the Archduke Charles to enter Madrid in September.

When he returned at last to England on 30 December 1705, he gradually became alienated from his old political associates, and in 1710 he accepted the post of Lord Chamberlain in the Tory administration, to which the queen appointed him without the knowledge of Godolphin and Marlborough ; his wife was at the same time made a Lady of the Bedchamber.