1704
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| Centuries: | 17th century - 18th century - 19th century |
| Decades: | 1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s
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| Years: | 1701 1702 1703 - 1704 - 1705 1706 1707 |
| 1704 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Countries: Canada |
| Great Britain - Mexico |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| BirtYJLLLKFSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS;Jhs - Deaths - Works |
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.
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[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 Masque de la Mobile in the capital of French Louisianne, Mobile (Alabama).
- April 24 - The first regular newspaper in British North America, the Boston, Massachusetts The Boston News-Letter, is published.
[edit] July - December
- August 4 - English and Dutch forces under Sir George Rooke capture Gibraltar.
- August 13 - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim - English troops under John Churchill, the Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat 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
- Building of the Student's Monument in Aiud, Romania.
- 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.
- Daniel Defoe documents the Great Storm of 1703 with eyewitness testimonies in The Storm (1704).
- Russian troops under czar Peter the Great capture Tartu and Narva in the Great Northern War.
- Rome decrees that Roman ceremonial practice in Latin (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1704 MDCCIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2457 |
| Armenian calendar | 1153 ԹՎ ՌՃԾԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -140 – -139 |
| Berber calendar | 2654 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2248 |
| Burmese calendar | 1066 |
| Chinese calendar | 4340/4400-11-25 (癸未年十一月廿五日) — to — 4341/4401-12-5(甲申年十二月初五日) |
| 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) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2364 (皇紀2364年) |
| Julian calendar | 1749 |
| Korean calendar | 4037 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2247 |
- 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)
- December 31 - Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist (died 1761)
- See also Category: 1704 births.
[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)
- See also Category: 1704 deaths.
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