1704
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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 |
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) |
Ethiopian calendar | 1696 – 1697 |
Hebrew calendar | 5464 – 5465 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1759 – 1760 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1626 – 1627 |
- Kali Yuga | 4805 – 4806 |
Iranian calendar | 1082 – 1083 |
Islamic calendar | 1116 – 1117 |
Japanese calendar | Genroku 17 (元禄17年) — changed to —
Hōei 1(宝永元年) |
- Imperial Year | Kōki 2364 (皇紀2364年) |
- Jōmon Era | 11704 |
Thai solar calendar | 2247 |
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.
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[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)