1704

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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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Events of 1704

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1704

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.

July - December

★ August 4 - English 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.

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.

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)

★ December 31 - Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist (died 1761)
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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)
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