1704

This article is about the year 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 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – England – France – Ireland – Norway – Russia – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1704 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1704 MDCCIV
Ab urbe condita	2457
Armenian calendar	1153 ԹՎ ՌՃԾԳ
Assyrian calendar	6454
Bengali calendar	1111
Berber calendar	2654
English Regnal year	2 Ann. 1 – 3 Ann. 1
Buddhist calendar	2248
Burmese calendar	1066
Byzantine calendar	7212–7213
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat) 4400 or 4340     — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4401 or 4341
Coptic calendar	1420–1421
Discordian calendar	2870
Ethiopian calendar	1696–1697
Hebrew calendar	5464–5465
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1760–1761
- Shaka Samvat	1626–1627
- Kali Yuga	4805–4806
Holocene calendar	11704
Igbo calendar	704–705
Iranian calendar	1082–1083
Islamic calendar	1115–1116
Japanese calendar	Genroku 17 / Hōei 1 (宝永元年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4037
Minguo calendar	208 before ROC 民前208年
Thai solar calendar	2246–2247

1704 (MDCCIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter FE) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday (dominical letter BA) of the Julian calendar, the 1704th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 704th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1700s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1704 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929. In the Swedish calendar it was a leap year starting on Friday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January–June

August 4: Gibraltar.

• January 25–26 – Apalachee massacre: English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their native allies stage a series of brutal raids against a largely pacific population of Apalachee in Spanish Florida.
• February 29 – Raid on Deerfield (Queen Anne's War): French Canadians and Native Americans sack Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing over 50 English colonists.
• February – In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated with the Masque de la Mobile in the capital of Louisiana (New France), Mobile, Alabama.
• April 21 – Battle of Biskupice between the Hungarians (Kurucs) and Danes.
• April 24 – The first regular newspaper in the Thirteen Colonies of British North America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
• May 28 – Battle of Smolenice: Kuruc rebels defeat the Austrian army and its allies.
• June 13 – Battle of Koroncó: Austrians and their allies from Denmark, Prussia, Croatia, Germany and Vojvodina defeat the Kurucs.

July–December

• July – Daniel Defoe documents the Great Storm of 1703 in England with eyewitness testimonies in The Storm.
• July 12 – Great Northern War – Charles XII of Sweden forces the election of his ally Stanisław Leszczyński as King of Poland in place of Augustus II the Strong.
• August 3 (July 23 Old Style) – War of the Spanish Succession – Capture of Gibraltar from Spain by English and Dutch forces under Sir George Rooke.

August 13: Battle of Blenheim.

• August 13 (August 2 OS) – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Blenheim: Allied troops under John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat the Franco-Bavarian army.
• August 24 (August 13 OS) – War of the Spanish Succession – French and English fleets clash off Málaga, causing heavy casualties in both sides but without sinking any ships.
• September – War of the Spanish Succession – The Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar by French and Spanish troops begins.

Date unknown

• Great Northern War: Russian troops under Tsar Peter the Great capture Tartu and Narva.
• 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.
• A Tale of a Tub, the first major satire by Jonathan Swift (written 1694–1697), is published in London, running through three editions this year.
• Isaac Newton publishes his Opticks.
• The Students' Monument is built in Aiud, Romania.
• Rome decrees that Roman ceremonial practice in Latin (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions.
• Thomas Darley purchases the bay Arabian horse Darley Arabian in Aleppo, Syria, and ships him to stud in England where he becomes the most important foundation sire of all modern thoroughbred racing bloodstock.

Births

• 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 encyclopedist (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 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 – Sofia Alekseyevna of Russia, regent (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)
• July 22 – Selim I Giray, Crimean khan
• August 14 – Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)
• August 19 – Jane Leade, English Christian mystic (b. 1624)
• October 28 – John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
• November 4 – Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)