from the year 1708 in France. Monarch: Louis XIV 23 March - James Stuart, the "Old Pretender", having sailed from Dunkirk with 5000 French troops, with... 3 KB (227 words) - 11:33, 15 July 2021 |
 | The Planned French Invasion of Britain, took place in March 1708 during the War of the Spanish Succession. Hoping to divert British resources from Flanders... 15 KB (1,701 words) - 11:59, 25 March 2024 |
 | 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... 25 KB (2,732 words) - 12:54, 3 May 2024 |
 | The siege of Lille (12 August – 10 December 1708) was the salient operation of the 1708 campaign season during the War of the Spanish Succession. After... 9 KB (929 words) - 15:11, 22 February 2024 |
 | Great Frost of 1709 (category 1708 in Europe) was known in England, or Le Grand Hiver ("The Great Winter"), as it was known in France, was an extraordinarily cold winter in Europe in 1708–1709, and... 7 KB (604 words) - 07:51, 4 October 2023 |
 | Pretender (redirect from Pretenders to the throne of France) Jacobite heir, in an address to Parliament in 1708: "The French fleet sailed from Dunkirk ... with the Pretender on board." In 1807 the French Emperor Napoleon... 37 KB (5,045 words) - 23:04, 4 April 2024 |
 | Battle of Oudenarde (category 1708 in France) the Spanish Netherlands, on 11 July 1708. With this victory, the Grand Alliance ensured the fall of various French territories, giving them a significant... 28 KB (3,530 words) - 17:31, 1 May 2024 |
 | war on France and Bourbon Spain in May 1702. During the 1708 campaign of the War, the Duke of Marlborough, commanding the Alliance's army in the Low... 7 KB (662 words) - 21:00, 4 April 2024 |
 | Acis and Galatea (category Metamorphoses into bodies of water in Greek mythology) given operatic treatment in a zarzuela written by Antonio de Literes (1708). In France, Jean-Baptiste Lully wrote the opera Acis et Galatée (1686) which was... 30 KB (3,250 words) - 01:08, 8 May 2024 |
 | Henry Morgan (category Piracy in the Caribbean) peers". Pringle identifies legal use of judicial torture in Scotland until 1708, in France until 1789 and the Spanish – as part of the Inquisition until... 67 KB (8,954 words) - 13:48, 30 April 2024 |