1704

	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

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

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.

[edit] Events of 1704

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.

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.

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)