Events from the year 1710 in

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( The Tsardom of Russia).

Incumbents

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– Peter I

Events

* January 27, 1710 –

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sets first Russian state budget. * March 22, 1710 - June 12, 1710 – Siege of Viborg, a second Russian attempt to capture the fortress port of Viborg from

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. *October 14, 1710 – The Russian

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(administrative subdivisions) were divided into lots according to

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population. *November 20, 1710 – War is declared by Peter The Great against the Ottomans, beginning the

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of 1710-1711. *Founding of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra Monastery, established by

in 1710. * Founding of

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in 1710 under the name of

Tsarskoye Selo Tsarskoye Selo (, , ) was the town containing a former residence of the Russian House of Romanov, imperial family and visiting nobility, located south from the center of Saint Petersburg. The residence now forms part of the Pushkin, Saint Peter ...

(Tsar's Village), which was the residence of the Russian imperial family (

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) and other visiting nobles. * Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia, with the Swedish dominions Estonia and Livonia being integrated into the Russian empire in 1710. *Founding of the Trångsund Fortress, established by

in 1710.

Births

*Pavlos Condoidis (Russian doctor who opened first

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school in Russia in 1757) was born in 1710 in Greece.

Deaths

References

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