* 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 – 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 – Louis Godin, French astronomer ( d. 1760 )

* 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 )

The Battle of Blenheim ( referred to in some countries as the Second Battle of Höchstädt ), fought on 13 August 1704, was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession.

By 1704, the War of the Spanish Succession was in its fourth year.

Eugene enhanced his standing during the War of the Spanish Succession where his partnership with the Duke of Marlborough secured victories against the French on the fields of Blenheim ( 1704 ), Oudenarde ( 1708 ), and Malplaquet ( 1709 ); he gained further success in the war as Imperial commander in northern Italy, most notably at the Battle of Turin ( 1706 ).

It was resumed during the War of Spanish Succession and in 1704 set on a permanent basis, remaining until the end of the Ancien regime.

The Whigs vigorously supported the War of the Spanish Succession and became even more influential after the Duke of Marlborough won a great victory at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704.

On February 29, 1704, during Queen Anne's War, joint French and Indian forces attacked the town in what became known as the Raid on Deerfield.

* Cature of Gibraltar ( 1704 )-Eleventh siege that saw the capture of the city by an Anglo-Dutch force in the name of Charles VI during the War of the Spanish Succession

Becoming de facto leader of Allied forces during the War of the Spanish Succession, his victories on the fields of Blenheim ( 1704 ), Ramillies ( 1706 ), Oudenarde ( 1708 ), and Malplaquet ( 1709 ), ensured his place in history as one of Europe's great generals.

Although the leap day was omitted in February 1700, the Great Northern War began later that year, diverting the attention of the Swedes from their calendar so that they did not omit leap days on the next two occasions and 1704 and 1708 remained leap years.

In 1704 and 1705 he took part in Queen Anne's War and was present at the Raid on Deerfield.

The subject is, inevitably, the Duke's 1704 victory at the Battle of Blenheim, during the War of the Spanish Succession.

In 1703, he volunteered to fight for Bavaria in the War of Spanish Succession, and saw action in 1704 at the Battle of Schellenberg, near Donauwörth.

* Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont ( 1704 – 1763 ), Commander of the Dutch forces in the War of Austrian Succession

Examples of Crisis eras include the Wars of the Roses ( 1459 – 1487 ), the Spanish Armada Crisis ( 1569 – 1594 ), the colonial Glorious Revolution ( 1675 – 1704 ), the American Revolution ( 1773 – 1794 ), the American Civil War ( 1860 – 1865 ), and the twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II ( 1929 – 1946 ).

As secretary of state for war he was responsible for raising an army for the War of the Spanish Succession, and had to reorganize it three times, after the defeats of 1704, 1706 and 1708.

The following year, 1704, the bill became an Act after the Scottish Parliament refused to raise taxes and sought to withdraw troops from the Duke of Marlborough's army in the War of the Spanish Succession unless Royal Assent was given.

As it is near the frontier with Spain it always suffered lots of invasions from foreign troops: in 1704 ( during the War of the Spanish Succession ), it was attacked and conquered by the army of Felipe V ; again in 1801 during the War of the Oranges, it surrendered to the Spanish Army, this way trying to counter the French dominion.

In its history, Traunstein was struck at least twice by town fires: In 1704, when Hungarian " Panduren " set the town on fire in the course of the Spanish War of Succession, and in 1851.

In the history of the town, which goes over 750 years back into the past, Traunstein has been struck at least twice by town fires: In 1704, when Hungarian " Panduren " set the town on fire in the course of the Spanish War of Succession, and in 1851.