* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.

* 1644 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer ( d. 1704 )

* 1620 – István Gyöngyösi, Hungarian poet ( d. 1704 )

* 1632 – John Locke, English philosopher and physician ( d. 1704 )

* 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.

* 1704 – The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.

* 1704 – Battle of Chamkaur.

John Harris is often credited with introducing the now-familiar alphabetic format in 1704 with his English Lexicon Technicum: Or, A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves – to give its full title.

In response to the early-to-mid-17th century " continental rationalism " John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ) proposed in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689 ) a very influential view wherein the only knowledge humans can have is a posteriori, i. e., based upon experience.

* 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.

* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).

* 1704 night of 3 – 4 August – Heavy shelling targeted the castle and the town.

* 1704 4 August – The Governor Diego de Salinas surrendered the town to Prince George of Hesse, who took it in the name of Archduke, as Charles III, king of Castile and Aragon.

* 1704 4 – 7 August.

* 1704 24 August – The Alliance fleet, under the command of Rooke, set sail from Gibraltar and intercepted a joint Spanish-French fleet that attempted to recover Gibraltar by the coast of Málaga ( Battle of Vélez-Málaga ).

* 1704 5 September – Troops of France and Spain under the marquis of Villadarias, General Captain of Andalusia, started to besiege Gibraltar to try to recover it ( this one would be the Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar ).

* 1704 11 November – A notable incident during the siege: 500 Spanish volunteer grenadiers tried to surprise the garrison after being led up a concealed path to the top of The Rock by a Spanish goatherd from Gibraltar, Simón Susarte.

The Castle in Pszczyna | Castle in Pleß, today Pszczyna, where the Promnitz family resided when Telemann worked for them in 1704 – 1706

Encyclopaedias such as Harris's Lexicon Technicum ( 1704 ) and Abraham Rees's Cyclopaedia ( 1802 – 1819 ) contain much of value.

* 1671 – Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian ( d. 1704 )

* 1704 – John Kay, English inventor ( d. 1780 )

* 1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d ' Argens, French writer ( d. 1771 )

* August 20 – Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher ( d. 1704 )

* September 11 – Louis Godin, French astronomer ( b. 1704 )

Then, in 1704 James Louis Sobieski and his brother Alexander were seized by Augustus II ’ s troops and imprisoned.

** Louis of France ( 1704 – 1705 ), Duke of Brittany,

The first major encounter occurred on 2 July 1704 when Marlborough and Prince Louis of Baden stormed the Schellenberg heights at Donauwörth.

After the death of his father in 1704, Christian August inherited Anhalt-Dornburg jointly with his brothers John Louis II, John Augustus ( died 1709 ), Christian Louis ( died 1710 ) and John Frederick ( died 1742 ).

* Louis Billouart de Kervaségan, chevalier de Kerlérec ( 1704 – 1770 ), last French governor of Louisiana

* Louis Georges, Marquis of Contades, ( 1704 – 1793 ), Marshal of France in 1758

L ' Enfant was born at Anet, Eure et Loir, the third child and second son of Marie Charlotte L ' Enfant ( aged 25 and the daughter of a minor marine official at court ) and Pierre L ' Enfant ( 1704 – 1787 ), a painter with a good reputation in the service of King Louis XV.

She was Johanna of Baden-Baden ( 1704 – 1726 ), the daughter of Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden and his wife Sibylle Auguste of Saxe-Lauenburg.

Louis Godin ( 28 February 1704 Paris – 11 September 1760 Cadiz ) was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Louis Bourdaloue ( August 20, 1632 – May 13, 1704 ) was a French Jesuit and preacher.

In the campaign of 1704 the Prussian contingent served first under Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, then Prince Eugene of Savoy, and fought at Blenheim.

* Françoise Adélaide de Noailles ( 1704 – 1776 ) married Charles de Lorraine in 1717, son of Louis de Lorraine and had no issue ; divorced in 1721 ;

The crater was named after Louis Godin ( 28 February 1704 Paris-11 September 1760 Cadiz ), who was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences.

# Louis of France, Duke of Brittany ( 25 June 1704 – 13 April 1705 ) died of convulsions ;

He was preceded in birth by an elder brother, also named Louis, who was born in 1704 and died in infancy the following year.

* Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg had similarly in 1704 begun reconstruction of a destroyed hunting lodge north of his residenz of Stuttgart.

It was partitioned in 1704 between the sons of Count Prosper Ferdinand, with Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg going to Joseph William Ernest, and Fürstenberg-Weitra to his posthumous son, Louis Augustus Egon.

The preacher Louis Bourdaloue ( 1632 – 1704 ) was known for his sermons, and theologian – orator Jacques-Benigne Bossuet ( 1627 – 1704 ) composed a number of celebrated funeral orations.

* Louis Godin ( 1704 – 1760 ), a French astronomer