* 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 ).

* 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 )

Handel's earliest opera compositions, in the German style, date from his Hamburg years, 1704 – 06, under the influence of Johann Mattheson.

Beginning in 1704 in South Carolina, slave patrols were established and the idea spread throughout the southern states.

After the construction of the Gustavianum in the 1620s, this building was referred to as the Collegium vetus or Gamla akademien (" the old academy "), until it was renamed in 1704 through a decision of the consistory ( university board ) and called the Academia Carolina, in honour of kings Charles IX, Charles XI and Charles XII.

In early 1704 Colonel James Moore of Carolina led 50 Englishmen and 1, 000 Apalachicolas and other Creeks in an attack on the Apalachee missions.

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.

* Governor Manuel de Prado y Maldonado ( 1698 – 1704 ).

* Governor Alonso Juan de Valdés e Inclán ( 1704 – 1708 ).

Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach ( 1658 – 1739 ) was Governor General of Swedish Estonia from 1704 to 1706.

This left him powerless to prevent Narva and Dorpat from falling into Russian hands in 1704, the same year he was named Governor General in Reval ( present-day Tallinn ).

The first European settlers were Col. John Reading who settled in Reading Township in 1704 and John Holcombe who settled in Lambertville in 1705.

In 1704, he was present at the capture of Narva.

In October 1704, after the ships had parted ways because of a dispute between Stradling and Dampier, the Cinque Ports was brought by Stradling to an island that is today known as Robinson Crusoe Island in the uninhabited archipelago of Juan Fernández off the coast of Chile for a mid-expedition restocking of supplies and fresh water.

The Parliament of Scotland was not happy with the Act of Settlement and, in response, passed the Act of Security in 1704, through which Scotland reserved the right to choose its own successor to Queen Anne.

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.

Before the 1704 campaign ended, the Allies had taken Landau, and the towns of Trier and Trarbach on the Moselle in preparation for the following year's campaign into France itself.

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

Nevertheless, by 1704, the threat was still real: Rákóczi's Hungarian revolt was already threatening the Empire's eastern approaches, and Marshal Vendôme's forces threatened an invasion from northern Italy.

Prince Eugene met Marlborough for the first time in 1704.

Memorial for the Battle of Blenheim 1704, Lutzingen, Germany.

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.

The 1704 campaign lasted considerably longer than usual as the Allies sought to wring out maximum advantage.

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.

Blenheim 1704: Marlborough's Greatest Victory.

Blenheim 1704: The Duke of Marlborough's Masterpiece.

After their disastrous defeat at Blenheim in 1704, the next year brought France some respite.

" In 1704, civilization was used to mean " a law which makes a criminal process into a civil case.

Cavalry was important at Blenheim ( 1704 ), Rossbach ( 1757 ), Eylau and Friedland ( 1807 ), remaining significant throughout the Napoleonic Wars.

Nevertheless, all the distinctive Christadelphian doctrines, down to interpretations of specific verses, can be found particularly among 16th century Socinian writers ( e. g. the rejection of the doctrines of the trinity, pre-existence of Christ, immortal souls, a literal hell of fire, original sin ) Christian Thomasius ( 1704 ), Arthur Ashley Sykes ( 1737 ), Nathaniel Lardner ( 1742 ), Dr. Richard Mead ( 1755 ), Hugh Farmer ( at least in the account of Christ's temptation ; 1761 ), William Ashdowne ( 1791 ), John Simpson ( 1804 ) and John Epps ( 1842 )