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* 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.
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* September 11 – Louis Godin, French astronomer ( b. 1704 )
Hakodate flourished during the Hoei period ( 1704 – 11 ) and many new temples were founded in the area.
Louis Godin ( 28 February 1704 Paris – 11 September 1760 Cadiz ) was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences.
It was at this moment that Marshal Villars, wishing to put an end to the terrible struggle, opened negotiations, and Cavalier was induced to attend a conference at Pont d ' Avne near Alais on May 11, 1704, and on May 16 he made submission at Nîmes.
11 ( 1704 ), counsel for the accused stated that he knew of no law for the dunking of scolds.
Born at Prague, Joseph Wenzel was the eldest son of Prince Philip Erasmus of Liechtenstein ( 11 September 1664-13 January 1704 ) and Christina Theresa von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort ( 12 October 1665-14 April 1730 ).
José António Carlos de Seixas, ( 11 June 1704 – 25 August 1742 ), was a Portuguese composer, the son of the cathedral organist, Francisco Vaz and Marcelina Nunes.
* Lieutenant-General Lord George Beauclerk ( 26 December 1704 – 11 May 1768 )
Sir Roger L ' Estrange ( 17 December 1616 – 11 December 1704 ) was an English pamphleteer and author, and staunch defender of royalist claims.
* Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford 11 June 1689 – 29 November 1704
Barlow is thought to have died in poverty, and the date of his death is unknown ; he was buried on 11 August 1704.
Yan Ruoqu (; November 11, 1636 – July 9, 1704 ) was an influential Chinese scholar from the early Qing Dynasty.
* Mary Egerton ( 14 May 1676 – 11 April 1704 ).
1704 and November
By the Treaty of Ilbersheim, signed 7 November 1704, Bavaria was placed under Austrian military rule, allowing the Habsburgs to utilise its resources for the rest of the conflict.
Trier was taken on 26 October and Landau fell on 23 November to the Margrave of Baden and Prince Eugene ; with the fall of Trarbach on 20 December, the campaign season for 1704 came to an end.
* November 20 – Peregrine White, first English child born at Plymouth Colony ( d. 1704 )
* November 30, 1667 ( in Dublin, Ireland )- Johnathon Swift-Praised satyrist who lived in Ireland most of his life. He was most famous for writing Gullivers Travels in 1726. He also wrote A Tale of a Tub from 1694-1697. It was finally published in 1704. He died in 1745.
* Arabella FitzJames, ( 1674 – 7 November 1704 ), became a nun.
November 1704 in Aschaffenburg – 8.
James Gabriel Montresor ( 19 November 1704 – 6 January 1776 ) was a British military engineer.
Montresor was born on Broad Street or St. James's, Westminster, 19 November 1704, the son of James Gabriel le Trésor and Nanon de Hauteville.
Andreas Acoluthus ( 16 March 1654 – 4 November 1704 ) was a German scholar of orientalism and professor of theology at Breslau ( Wrocław ).
Rogers completed his apprenticeship in November 1704.
Hans Hermann von Katte ( February 28, 1704 – November 6, 1730 ) was a Lieutenant of the Prussian Army and close friend of the future Frederick II of Prussia, then the Crown Prince.
* November 1702-June 1704: James Murray, Lord Philiphaugh
Paul Daniel Longolius ( November 1, 1704 – February 24, 1779 ) was the main editor of volumes 3 through 18 of Johann Heinrich Zedler's Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon ( an early encyclopedia ) from 1733 to 1739, replacing Jacob August Franckenstein, who had edited the first two volumes.
* Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford 29 November 1704 – 10 May 1712
William Bentinck, 1st Count Bentinck ( 6 November 1704 – 13 October 1774 ), who married Charlotte Sophie, Countess von Aldenburg ( 4 August 1715 – 5 February 1800 ) on 1 June 1733 and had two sons.
Richard Pococke ( 19 November 1704 – 25 September 1765 ) was an English prelate and anthropologist.
He was the second son of Prosper Ferdinand, Count Fürstenberg, killed at the Landau on 21 November 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession, and his wife Sophia, Countess Königsegg-Rothenfels ( 1674 – 1727 ).
* Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent 15 June 1704 – 18 November 1714
1704 and –
* 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 – 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 ).
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 )
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