1704
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1670s 1680s 1690s – 1700s – 1710s 1720s 1730s |
| Years: | 1701 1702 1703 – 1704 – 1705 1706 1707 |
| 1704 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science |
| Countries: |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – 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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Events of 1704
January–June
- February 29 – Canadians (actual Québécois) and Native Americans sack Deerfield, Massachusetts.
- February – In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated with the Masque de la Mobile in the capital of French Louisianne, Mobile (Alabama).
- April 24 – The first regular newspaper in British North America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
July–December
- August 4 – English and Dutch forces under Sir George Rooke capture Gibraltar from Spain.
- August 13 – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Blenheim: Allied troops under John Churchill, the Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat the Franco-Bavarian army.
- August 24 – French and English fleets clash off Málaga, causing heavy casualties in both sides but without sinking any ships.
Undated
- A Tale of a Tub, the first major satire by Jonathan Swift, is published.
- Isaac Newton publishes his Optics.
- The Students' Monument is built in Aiud, Romania.
- The Sultanate of Brunei cedes its north-east territories to the Sultanate of Sulu.
- The lower 3 counties of the Province of Pennsylvania become the colony of Delaware.
- An earthquake strikes Gondar, Ethiopia.
- Daniel Defoe documents the Great Storm of 1703 with eyewitness testimonies in The Storm (1704).
- Great Northern War: Final defeat of Poland by Karl XII. Augustus II the Strong deposed and replaced by Karl's ally Stanislaw Leszczynski.
- Great Northern War: Russian troops under Tsar Peter the Great capture Tartu and Narva.
- Rome decrees that Roman ceremonial practice in Latin (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions.
Ongoing events
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1704 MDCCIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2457 |
| Armenian calendar | 1153 ԹՎ ՌՃԾԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -140 – -139 |
| Bengali calendar | 1111 |
| Berber calendar | 2654 |
| 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 | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1760 – 1761 |
| - 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) |
| Korean calendar | 4037 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2247 |
- 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 encylopedist (d. 1779)
- December 31 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist (d. 1761)
Deaths
- 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 von 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)
- 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)