Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1670s  1680s  1690s  – 1700s –  1710s  1720s  1730s
Years:	1701 1702 1703 – 1704 – 1705 1706 1707

1704 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:   Canada – England – Scotland –

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1704 (MDCCIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). Year 1704 of the Swedish calendar was a leap year starting on Friday, one day ahead of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1704 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1704

[edit] January–June

• February 29 – Canadians (actual Québécois) and Native Americans sack Deerfield, Massachusetts.
• February – In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated with the Masque de la Mobile in the capital of French Louisianne, Mobile (Alabama).
• April 24 – The first regular newspaper in British North America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.

[edit] July–December

• August 4 – English and Dutch forces under Sir George Rooke capture Gibraltar from Spain.
• August 13 – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Blenheim: Allied troops under John Churchill, the Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat the Franco-Bavarian army.
• August 24 – French and English fleets clash off Málaga, causing heavy casualties in both sides but without sinking any ships.

[edit] Undated

• A Tale of a Tub, the first major satire by Jonathan Swift, is published.
• Isaac Newton publishes his Optics.
• The Students' Monument is built in Aiud, Romania.
• The Sultanate of Brunei cedes its north-east territories to the Sultanate of Sulu.
• The lower 3 counties of the Province of Pennsylvania become the colony of Delaware.
• An earthquake strikes Gondar, Ethiopia.
• Daniel Defoe documents the Great Storm of 1703 with eyewitness testimonies in The Storm (1704).
• Great Northern War: Final defeat of Poland by Karl XII. Augustus II the Strong deposed and replaced by Karl's ally Stanislaw Leszczynski.
• Great Northern War: Russian troops under Tsar Peter the Great capture Tartu and Narva.
• Rome decrees that Roman ceremonial practice in Latin (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions.

[edit] Births

1704 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1704 MDCCIV
Ab urbe condita	2457
Armenian calendar	1153 ԹՎ ՌՃԾԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-140 – -139
Bengali calendar	1111
Berber calendar	2654
Buddhist calendar	2248
Burmese calendar	1066
Byzantine calendar	7212 – 7213
Chinese calendar	癸未年十一月廿五日 (4340/4400-11-25) — to — 甲申年十二月初五日 (4341/4401-12-5)
Coptic calendar	1420 – 1421
Ethiopian calendar	1696 – 1697
Hebrew calendar	5464 – 5465
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1759 – 1760
- Shaka Samvat	1626 – 1627
- Kali Yuga	4805 – 4806
Holocene calendar	11704
Iranian calendar	1082 – 1083
Islamic calendar	1115 – 1116
Japanese calendar	Genroku 17Hōei 1 (宝永元年)
Korean calendar	4037
Thai solar calendar	2247
v • d • e

• January 1 – Soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787)
• February 12 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (d. 1772)
• February 28 – Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760)
• April 10 – Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
• June 4 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776)
• June 11 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (d. 1742)
• June 17 – John Kay, English inventor (d. 1780)
• June 22 – John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
• June 24 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771)
• July 15 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (d. 1792)
• July 31 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752)
• October 29 – John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757)
• November 1 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (d. 1779)
• December 31 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist (d. 1761)

[edit] Deaths

• February 2 – Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (b. 1661)
• February 23 – Georg Muffat, German composer (b. 1645)
• February 24 – Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (b. 1643)
• March 17 – Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer (b. 1641)
• April 8 – Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624)
• April 8 – Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641)
• April 10 – William Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629)
• April 12 – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer (b. 1627)
• April 15 – Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (b. 1628)
• May 3 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Austrian composer (b. 1644)
• May 13 – Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632)
• June 18 – Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662)
• June 30 – John Quelch, English pirate (b. 1666)
• July 3 – Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
• July 7 – Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (b. c. 1657)
• July 20 – Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620)
• August 14 – Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)
• October 28 – John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
• November 4 – Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)