It was in Amsterdam, however, that in 1704 and under the guidance of Danish-born Russian admiral Cornelius Cruys, Bering enlisted with the Russian navy, taking the rank of sub-lieutenant.

Buckingham wrote occasional verses, pamphlets, lampoons, satires and plays showing undoubted ( but undeveloped ) poetic gifts, a collection of which, containing however many pieces not from his pen, was first published by Tom Brown in 1704 ; while a few extracts from a commonplace book of Buckingham of some interest are given in an article in the Quarterly Review of January 1898.

The Discourse of the True Antiquity of London appeared in 1704 and was a work of high scholarship on Roman London ; it however ignored the new archaeological evidence that was available but not yet in literary form.

In 1704, however, he returned to Bologna, employed again in the re-formed orchestra of San Petronio.

The painting, however, survived for several centuries until it was destroyed in 1704, along with the church, by an Oromo raid.

These rights were confirmed on 28 June 1698, however, and Leopold was able to succeed his father when he died in 1704, at age ten.

Irish regiments participated in most of the major land battles fought by the French between 1690 and 1789, particularly Steenkirk ( 1692 ), Neerwinden ( 1693 ), Marsaglia ( 1693 ), Blenheim ( 1704 ), Malplaquet ( 1709 ), Fontenoy ( 1745 ), Battle of Lauffeld ( 1747 ); and Rossbach ( 1757 ).

For the period after the Siege of Batavia ( 1628 – 29 ) until the first War of Succession ( 1704 ), the years of events in which foreigners participated can be accepted as certain, but – again-are not always consistent with Javanese version of the story.

This successful invasion enabled Charles XII to dethrone August II and coerce the Polish sejm to replace him with Stanisław Leszczyński in 1704.

One of the more successful was the system built by Isaac de la Chaumette starting in 1704.

Born in Philadelphia in 1704, Allen was the son of William Allen, sr., a successful Philadelphia merchant of Scotch-Irish descent who had immigrated to America from Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland with his brother John and father.

On 13 August 1704, he attacked the French fleet off Málaga, the battle being drawn in tactical terms, but successful strategically in supporting the allies at Gibraltar.

On April 16, 1704 he encountered Marshal Montrevel himself at the bridge of Nages, with 1000 men against 5000, and, though defeated after a desperate conflict, he made a successful retreat with two-thirds of his men.

Spain's defeat by the combined alliance of France, Britain, the Netherlands and Austria in the War of the Quadruple Alliance ( 1718 – 1720 ) confirmed the decline from her former dominance, whilst the successful deployment of the Britain's Royal Navy into the Mediterranean, by exploiting the fortress of Gibraltar, gained in 1704 by an Anglo-Dutch force during the war of succession, would create considerable difficulties in the following years.

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 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader ( d. 1792 )

* 1704 – Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer and tenor ( d. 1759 )

* 1654 – Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist ( d. 1704 )

* 1704 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encyclopedist ( d. 1779 )

* 1704 – Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician ( d. 1777 )

* 1792 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German theologian, minister, and bishop ( b. 1704 )

* June 15 – Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist ( d. 1704 )

* September 18 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader ( b. 1704 )

* February 24 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encyclopedist ( b. 1704 )

* July 9 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist ( b. 1704 )

* August 8 – Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer ( b. 1704 )

* March 16 – Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist ( d. 1704 )

Members of the Rohan family had filled the office of Bishop of Strasbourg since 1704, which made them princes of the Holy Roman Empire and the compeers rather of the German prince-bishops than of the French ecclesiastics.

Carl Heinrich Graun ( 7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759 ) was a German composer and tenor singer.

The Enlightenment-era British social theoretician John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ) said that political legitimacy derives from popular explicit and implicit consent of the governed: “ The argument of the Treatise is that the government is not legitimate unless it is carried on with the consent of the governed .” The German political philosopher Dolf Sternberger said, “ Legitimacy is the foundation of such governmental power as is exercised, both with a consciousness on the government ’ s part that it has a right to govern, and with some recognition by the governed of that right .” The American political sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset said that legitimacy also “ involves the capacity of a political system to engender and maintain the belief that existing political institutions are the most appropriate and proper ones for the society .” The American political theorist Robert A. Dahl explained legitimacy as a reservoir ; so long as the water is at a given level, political stability is maintained, if it falls below the required level, political legitimacy is endangered.

William Egon of Fürstenberg ( December 2, 1629 – April 10, 1704 ) was a German clergyman who was bishop of Strasbourg.

Andreas Acoluthus ( 16 March 1654 – 4 November 1704 ) was a German scholar of orientalism and professor of theology at Breslau ( Wrocław ).

* David ben Naphtali Fränkel ( c 1704 – 1762 ), German rabbi

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

* Anthonius Lucius ( 1635 – 1704 ), a German professor

* Karl August von Bergen ( 1704 – 1759 ), German anatomist and botanist

Hiob Ludolf ( or Job Leutholf ) ( June 15, 1624 – April 8, 1704 ) was a German orientalist, and born at Erfurt.

August Gottlieb Spangenberg ( July 15, 1704 – September 18, 1792 ) was a German theologian and minister, and a bishop of the Moravian Brethren.

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.

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.

Allying himself with the French against the Habsburgs, his campaign against Tyrol in 1703 did not have success and his plans were then frustrated by the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704.

The Queen enthusiastically agreed to this elevation, but after the successes of 1704, the campaign of 1705 brought little reason for satisfaction on the Continent.

During the campaign of 1704, he was one of the few entrusted with the truth of Marlborough's march from the Spanish Netherlands to the Danube and played a major role in the organisation of the march.

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.

They assembled for the 1704 campaign at Bedburg in the middle of May, and in early July a detachment was part of the main British attack at the Battle of Schellenberg.