1705

	1705 by topic:
	Arts and Sciences
	Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
	Countries
	Canada – England – Scotland –
	Lists of leaders
	Colonial governors – State leaders
	Birth and death categories
	Births – Deaths
	Establishments and disestablishments categories
	Establishments – Disestablishments
	Works category
	Works
	v; d; e;

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1670s 1680s 1690s – 1700s – 1710s 1720s 1730s
Years:	1702 1703 1704 – 1705 – 1706 1707 1708

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

This article is about the year 1705.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 1705

Year 1705 (MDCCV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar. In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Sunday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

[edit] Events

March 8 – The Province of Carolina incorporates the town of Bath, making it the first incorporated town in present day North Carolina. The town becomes the political center and de facto capital of the northern portion of the Province of Carolina until Edenton is incorporated in 1722.
May 5 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor succeeds his father Leopold I.

November: Williamsburg Capitol (replica).

November – In Williamsburg, capital of the Virginia colony in America, construction of the Capitol building is completed.
November 5 – The Dublin Gazette publishes its first edition.
December – The Sophia Naturalization Act is passed by the English Parliament, which naturalizes Sophia of Hanover and the "issue of her body" as English subjects.
December 25 – In Munich, capital of Bavaria, 1100 militiamen from the Oberland are killed during the Sendlinger Mordweihnacht, after a failed attempt to break through several gates and capture a depot to seize better weaponry; many men were slaughtered by German federal infantry and Hungarian Husars, despite their capitulation to Austrian officers.

Construction begins on Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England. It is completed in 1724.
Taichung City, Taiwan is founded as the village of Dadun.
With the interest paid from daimyo loans, the Konoike buy a tract of ponds and swampland, turn the land into rice paddies and settle 480 households numbering perhaps 2,880 peasants on the land.
The Shogunate confiscates the property of a merchant in Osaka "for conduct unbecoming a member of the commercial class". The government seizes 50 pairs of gold screens, 360 carpets, several mansions, 48 granaries and warehouses scattered around the country and hundreds of thoudands of gold pieces.

January 12 – Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
January 17 – John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
February 5 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1653)
May 5 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
July 12 (or 13) – Titus Oates, English conspirator (b. 1648)
August 16 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1654)
October 11 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
November 30 – Catherine of Braganza, queen of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
date unknown – Meg Shelton, alleged witch from Lancashire

1705 by topic:
Arts and Sciences
Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
Countries
Canada – England – Scotland –
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors – State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
Works
v d e