1710 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1709 in literature, other events of 1710, 1711 in literature, list of years in literature.

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