What day of the week was August 20, 1710?

The day of the week August 20th, 1710 fell on was a Wednesday.

Thomas Simpson the English mathematician (d. 1761) was born on 20 August in 1710.

War of the Spanish Succession: a multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître the Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.