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| 1710 |
| | | Machines are thrown out of the window of a Spitalfields factory, in an early protest against industrialization | |
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| c. 1710 |
| | | The Byerley Turk, Darley Arabian and Godolphin Arabian, ancestors of all thoroughbred racehorses, are imported into England | |
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| 1710 |
| | | 25-year-old George Berkeley attacks Locke in his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge | |
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| c. 1710 |
| | | James Johnston, Secretary of State for Scotland, commissions John James to design his new house, to become known later as Orleans House. | |
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| 1711 |
| | | Handel's success in London with his opera Rinaldo prompts him to settle in Britain | |
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| 1712 |
| | | Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock introduces a delicate vein of mock-heroic in English poetry | |
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| 1712 |
| | | The tsar formally marries Catherine, his mistress for nearly ten years (though they may have married secretly five years earlier) | |
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| 1712 |
| | | The violinist Archangelo Corelli composes his Christmas Concerto, the best known of his influential group of twelve Concerti Grossi | |
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| 1713 April 9 |
| | | Nave and chancel of St Mary's Church collapse leaving only the fifteenth-century tower, itself the survivor of an earlier building. | |
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| 1713 |
| | | The emperor Charles VI issues a Pragmatic Sanction, declaring that the remaining Habsburg empire can be inherited through the female line | |
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