1704
Years:
1701 1702 1703 - 1704 - 1705 1706 1707Decades:
1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730sCenturies:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
1704 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Science
Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders ---- From Categories:
births - deaths
Events
- Building of the Student's Monument in Aiud, Romania.
- February 29 - Québécois and Native Americans sack Deerfield, Massachusetts
- 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 Malaga, causing heavy casualties in both sides but without sinking any ships
- 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
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 encylopedist (d. 1779)
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)
- July 3 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
- July 7 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
- 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)