1704 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1704?
- February 29, 1704 – Queen Anne’s War: French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.
- April 24, 1704 – The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
- August 4, 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
- August 13, 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Austrian forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
- December 6, 1704 – Battle of Chamkaur.
Who Were Born In The Year 1704?
- January 1, 1704 – Soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787)
- February 12, 1704 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (d. 1772)
- February 28, 1704 – Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760)
- April 10, 1704 – Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
- June 4, 1704 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776)
- June 11, 1704 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (d. 1742)
- June 17, 1704 – John Kay, English inventor (d. 1780)
- June 22, 1704 – John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
- June 24, 1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771)
- July 15, 1704 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (d. 1792)
- July 31, 1704 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752)
- October 9, 1704 – Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
- October 29, 1704 – John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757)
- November 1, 1704 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encyclopedist (d. 1779)
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