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* 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.
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* 1704 night of 3 – 4 August – Heavy shelling targeted the castle and the town.
* 1704 4 – 7 August.
* January 4 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician ( b. 1704 )
* April 4 – John Taylor, English classical scholar ( b. 1704 )
John Hadley was engaged as the engineer immediately, and by 1704 the original work was completed, including 12 locks on the Aire between Haddesley and Leeds and 4 on the Calder.
John Taylor ( 22 June 1704 – 4 April 1766 ), English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury in Shropshire.
There were 8, 691 housing units at an average density of 1704. 1 / sq mi ( 663. 4 / km² ).
Gabriel Cramer (; 31 July 1704 – 4 January 1752 ) was a Swiss mathematician, born in Geneva.
He commanded the allied naval forces in the capture of Gibraltar in July 1704, becoming military Governor of Gibraltar from 24 July to 4 August.
William Byrd I ( 1652 – 4 December 1704 ) was a native of Shadwell, London, England.
Byrd died on 4 Dec 1704, at his plantation home of Westover, in Charles City County, Virginia.
Andreas Acoluthus ( 16 March 1654 – 4 November 1704 ) was a German scholar of orientalism and professor of theology at Breslau ( Wrocław ).
Benjamin Huntsman ( 4 June 1704 – 20 June 1776 ) was an English inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel.
The first suggests that the bay is named after a group of around 350 Catalan ( from Catalonia ) military men believed to have settled here after having assisted the Anglo-Dutch forces who won the Capture of Gibraltar during the War of Spanish Succession on 4 August 1704.
* Sir Richard Levinge, Bt: 4 April 1704 – 1709
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.
* Lustige Feld-Music ( Nuremberg, 1704 ): works for 4 wind instruments
Anthony Ulrich ( German: Anton Ulrich ; 4 October 1633, Hitzacker – 27 March 1714, Salzdahlum ) was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruled over the Wolfenbüttel subdivision of the duchy from 1685 until 1702 jointly with his brother, and solely from 1704 until his death.
1704 and August
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.
Anne further honoured Churchill, after his leadership in the victories against the French of 13 August 1704 near the village of Blenheim ( German Blindheim ) on the river Danube ( Battle of Blenheim ), by granting him the royal manor of Woodstock, and building him a house at her own expense to be called Blenheim.
* 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 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 ).
The few Spaniards who remained in Gibraltar in August 1704 were augmented by others who arrived in the fleet with Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, possibly some two hundred in all, mostly Catalans.
* 1704 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader ( d. 1792 )
John Locke FRS (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 ), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.
* 1792 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German theologian, minister, and bishop ( b. 1704 )
* August 25 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer ( b. 1704 )
* August 12 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer and violinist ( d. 1704 )
* September 18 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader ( b. 1704 )
* August 20 – Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher ( d. 1704 )
* August 29 – John Locke, English philosopher ( d. 1704 )
* August 6 – Eugene Aram, English philologist ( b. 1704 )
* August 8 – Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer ( b. 1704 )
# Maria Magdalena Sobieska ( August 3, 1704-August 3, 1704 ) died young.
This successful invasion enabled Charles XII to dethrone August II and coerce the Polish sejm to replace him with Stanisław Leszczyński in 1704.
* 28 August 1704 – 1722: His Highness Prince of the Holy Roman Empire
* Francke, August Hermann ( 1704 ): August Hermann Franckes Schrift über eine Reform des Erziehungs-und Bildungswesens als Ausgangspunkt einer geistlichen und sozialen Neuordnung der Evangelischen Kirche des 18.
On 19 August 1704, he succeeded, at last, in bringing about a treaty of alliance between Russia and the Polish republic to strengthen the hands of Augustus, but he failed to bring Prussia also into the anti-Swedish league because of Fredrick I's fear of Charles and jealousy of Peter.
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 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 )
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