1704

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

[edit] Events

• Building of the Student's Monument in Aiud, Romania.
• February 29 - Canadians ( actual Québécois ) and Native Americans sack Deerfield, Massachusetts.
• April 24 - The first regular newspaper in British North America, the Boston, Massachusetts The Boston News-Letter, is published.
• July 23 - British forces under Sir George Rooke capture Gibraltar.
• August 13 - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim - British troops under John Churchill, the Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat Franco-Bavarian army.
• August 24 - French and British fleets clash off Málaga, causing heavy casualties in both sides but without sinking any ships.

[edit] Unknown dates

• The Sultanate of Brunei cedes its north-east territories to the Sultanate of Sulu.
• The lower three counties of the Province of Pennsylvania become the colony of Delaware.
• Earthquake strikes Gondar in Ethiopia.

[edit] Births

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

[edit] Deaths

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