1704

Years: 1701 1702 1703 - 1704 - 1705 1706 1707
Decades: 1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century Template:C18YearInTopic

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

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)af:1704