1708 (MDCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1708th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 708th year of the 2nd millennium, the 8th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1700s decade. As of the start of 1708, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
September 28: Peter the Great leads Russia to victory over Sweden in Battle of Lesnaya.
1708 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1708
MDCCVIII
Ab urbe condita2461
Armenian calendar1157
ԹՎ ՌՃԾԷ
Assyrian calendar6458
Balinese saka calendar1629–1630
Bengali calendar1115
Berber calendar2658
British Regnal yearAnn. 1 – 7 Ann. 1
Buddhist calendar2252
Burmese calendar1070
Byzantine calendar7216–7217
Chinese calendar丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
4405 or 4198
    — to —
戊子年 (Earth Rat)
4406 or 4199
Coptic calendar1424–1425
Discordian calendar2874
Ethiopian calendar1700–1701
Hebrew calendar5468–5469
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1764–1765
 - Shaka Samvat1629–1630
 - Kali Yuga4808–4809
Holocene calendar11708
Igbo calendar708–709
Iranian calendar1086–1087
Islamic calendar1119–1120
Japanese calendarHōei 5
(宝永5年)
Javanese calendar1631–1632
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4041
Minguo calendar204 before ROC
民前204年
Nanakshahi calendar240
Thai solar calendar2250–2251
Tibetan calendar阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
1834 or 1453 or 681
    — to —
阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
1835 or 1454 or 682

In the Swedish calendar it was a leap year starting on Wednesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

Events

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January–June

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July–December

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Date unknown

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Births

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Pompeo Batoni born 25 January
 
Jean-François-Joseph de Rochechouart born 27 January
 
Augustin-Joseph de Mailly born 5 April
 
Johann Adolf Scheibe born 5 May
 
John Spencer born 13 May
 
Henry Bilson-Legge born 29 May
 
Silvester Gardiner born 29 June
 
Jean-Rodolphe Perronet born 27 October
 
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham born 15 November

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Deaths

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Guru Gobind Singh

References

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