1704
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This article is about the year 1704.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1670s 1680s 1690s – 1700s – 1710s 1720s 1730s |
| Years: | 1701 1702 1703 – 1704 – 1705 1706 1707 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1704 MDCCIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2457 |
| Armenian calendar | 1153 ԹՎ ՌՃԾԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6454 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -140–-139 |
| Bengali calendar | 1111 |
| Berber calendar | 2654 |
| English Regnal year | 2 Ann. 1 – 3 Ann. 1 |
| 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 | 1760–1761 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1626–1627 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4805–4806 |
| Holocene calendar | 11704 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 704–705 |
| Iranian calendar | 1082–1083 |
| Islamic calendar | 1115–1116 |
| Japanese calendar | Genroku 17Hōei 1 (宝永元年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4037 |
| Minguo calendar | 208 before ROC 民前208年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2247 |
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Year 1704 (MDCCIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar. In the Swedish calendar it was a leap year starting on Friday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
Events [edit]
January–June [edit]
- January 25–26 – Apalachee massacre: English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their native allies stage a series of brutal raids against a largely pacific population of Apalachee in Spanish Florida.
- February 29 – French-Canadians and Native Americans sack Deerfield, Massachusetts.
- February – In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated with the Masque de la Mobile in the capital of Louisiana (New France), Mobile, Alabama.
- April 24 – The first regular newspaper in the Thirteen Colonies of British North America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
July–December [edit]
- July 12 – Great Northern War – Charles XII of Sweden forces the election of his ally Stanisław Leszczyński as King of Poland in place of Augustus II the Strong.
- August 3 (July 23 Old Style) – War of the Spanish Succession – Capture of Gibraltar from Spain by English and Dutch forces under Sir George Rooke.
- August 13 (August 2 OS) – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Blenheim: Allied troops under John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat the Franco-Bavarian army. The Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar by French and Spanish troops begins in September.
- August 24 (August 13 OS) – War of the Spanish Succession – French and English fleets clash off Málaga, causing heavy casualties in both sides but without sinking any ships.
Date unknown [edit]
- Great Northern War: Russian troops under Tsar Peter the Great capture Tartu and Narva.
- 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.
- An earthquake strikes Gondar in Ethiopia.
- A Tale of a Tub, the first major satire by Jonathan Swift (written 1694–1697), is published in London.
- Daniel Defoe documents the Great Storm of 1703 with eyewitness testimonies in The Storm.
- Isaac Newton publishes his Opticks.
- The Students' Monument is built in Aiud, Romania.
- Rome decrees that Roman ceremonial practice in Latin (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions.
- Thomas Darley purchases the bay Arabian horse Darley Arabian in Aleppo, Syria, and ships him to stud in England where he becomes the most important foundation sire of all modern thoroughbred racing bloodstock.
Births [edit]
- 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 encyclopedist (d. 1779)
- December 31 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist (d. 1761)
Deaths [edit]
- 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 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)
- July 22 – Selim I Giray Crimean khan
- 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)
Date unknown
- Jane Leade, English mystic (b. 1624)
