Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1708. 1708 (MDCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday...

The Scottish Militia Bill 1708 (known formerly as the Scotch Militia Bill) was a bill that was passed by the House of Commons and House of Lords of the...

were serious revolts in 1715, 1719 and 1745, French invasion attempts in 1708 and 1744, and numerous unsuccessful plots. While the 1745 Rising briefly...

The year 1708 in science and technology involved some significant events. Herman Boerhaave publishes Institutiones medicae, one of the earliest textbooks...

The 1708 British general election was the first general election to be held after the Acts of Union had united the Parliaments of England and Scotland...

The administrative division reform of 1708 was carried out by Russian Tsar Peter the Great in an attempt to improve the manageability of the vast territory...

The Rajput rebellion began in 1708, due to the harsh treatment of the Rajput Rajas by the Mughal emperor. It erupted into a two-year rebellion that forced...

in 1708. The game was originally part of the four-game collection The Art of Siege, and was also released as a stand-alone "folio" game. In 1708, during...

Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire. It was established in December 1708 as one of the eight guberniyas first created during the reforms of Peter...

renamed A-3 and patrolled Manila Bay during World War I USS Grampus (SP-1708), originally named Boothbay, was 1,708 tons and 126 feet long, built by Neafie...

Cossack Hetmanate Zaporizhian Host. After the extremely harsh Great Frost of 1708–1709, the weakened Swedish army resumed operations in the spring of 1709...

launched by Richard Burchett of Rotherhithe on 5 August 1708. She was commissioned in July 1708 under the command of Captain Henry Lawson, who commanded...

Hercules Langford Rowley PC (c. 1714 – 25 March 1794) was an Irish politician and landowner. Rowley was born c. 1714. He was the only son of Frances (née...

House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (also at Westminster)...

The invasion began with Charles's crossing of the Vistula on 1 January 1708, and effectively ended with the Swedish defeat in the Battle of Poltava on...

Principalities and Sloboda Ukraine, thus extending its territory far south. In 1708, the Oka principalities and Sloboda Ukraine were incorporated into the first...

the seventeenth century, enshrined by the typographical reform of 1708. Until 1708, the iotated /ja/ was written ⟨ꙗ⟩ at the beginning of a word. This...

The year 1708 in music involved some significant musical events and new works. Alessandro Scarlatti returns to Naples from Venice. Johann Sebastian Bach...

British Subjects Acts 1708 to 1772 was the collective title of the following Acts: The Foreign Protestants Naturalization Act 1708 (7 Ann. c. 5) The British...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1708. July 14 – Joseph Trapp becomes the first Oxford Professor of Poetry. unknown...

Holy Roman Emperor the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne in September 1708 during the War of the Spanish Succession. The British would later annex the...

1708 Pólit, provisional designation 1929 XA, is a very dark asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 29 kilometers in diameter...

of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1708 (as Azov Governorate) to 1779 and again from 1796 to 1928. Its capital was...

Berkeley, Viscountess Fitzhardinge (née Villiers; c. 1654 – 19 September 1708) was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne of Great Britain and governess to Prince...

Deborah Read Franklin (c. 1708 – December 19, 1774) was the common-law wife of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Little...

7906827.01) is a Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler-1708, located in the constellation of Cygnus approximately 5,600 light years away...

Sicily, and Sardinia. Athlone until 1703, Overkirk from 1704 to 1708 and Tilly from 1708. This was in part possible due to the help from Flemish citizens...

"Vulgar Era". The term "Common Era" can be found in English as early as 1708, and became more widely used in the mid-19th century by Jewish religious...

The Murat Kuchukov Movement, also known as the 1708 Insurgency in Chechnya or the 1708 Insurgency in the North Caucasus, was caused by the oppressive...

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