) In the sense used here it is first defined in 1704 by Mathieu de la Porte in his treatise "" as a consideration of different exchange rates to recognize the most profitable places of issuance and settlement for a bill of exchange ("".

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 ).

* Jews, most of them of Sephardi origin, were able to re-establish their rites, forbidden in Catholic Spain, right after the British occupation in 1704.

* 1704 – The Battle of Ayubale takes place, leading to the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.

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.

* 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.

Perhaps the two most famous Canadien attacks against New England were the Siege of Pemaquid ( 1696 ) and the Raid on Deerfield ( 1704 ).

His two most important works are the Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum ( 1694 – 1699, in 12 volumes ), and the Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae published after his death, and continued by the elder Pieter Burmann ( 1704 – 1725 ), although these have not always been looked upon favourably.

But the person most responsible for promoting and enriching Narita-san was Ichikawa Danjūrō I ( 1660 – 1704 ), one of the most influential actors of the golden age of kabuki.

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.

Rymer's most lasting contribution to scholarship was the sixteen volumes of Foedera he published from 1704 to 1713 ; a collection of " all the leagues, treaties, alliances, capitulations, and confederacies, which have at any time been made between the Crown of England and any other kingdoms, princes and states ," it was an immense labor of research and transcription on which he spent the last twenty years of his life.

The storm, unprecedented in ferocity and duration, was generally reckoned by witnesses to represent the anger of God — in recognition of the " crying sins of this nation ", the government declared 19 January 1704 a day of fasting, saying it " loudly calls for the deepest and most solemn humiliation of our people ".

The performers, who recorded or have recorded for Accent, are among the most famous interpreters in the field of Early Music: The Kuijken Brothers, Barthold, Sigiswald and Wieland, René Jacobs, Jos van Immerseel, Konrad Junghänel, Erik van Nevel, María Cristina Kiehr, Paul Dombrecht, and Marcel Ponseele with his Ensemble " Il Gardellino ", but also younger performers like Ewald Demeyere, Luca Guglielmi, or new ensembles like Collegium 1704 under the direction of Vaclav Luks.

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 ).

Among their most senior ministers were Sir Charles Hedges ( Tory ), Lord Nottingham ( Tory ), Sir Robert Harley ( a Whig who would rise to power in 1704 ), and Lord Sunderland ( Whig ).

On account of his family relationship with the Miloslavsky family, he miscalculated the strength of the tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna, ( September 17 September 27, 1657 – regent of Russia ( 1682 – 1689 ) – July 3 July 14, 1704 ), full sister of Feodor III and third daughter, also, of Tsar Alexei I of Russia by his first wife, Maria Miloslavskaya and became one of her most energetic supporters, but contrived to join the other, and winning, side just before the final catastrophe.

At one of the most spectacular Japanese sword exhibitions recently held, the one held at the British Museum in London, England, one of the masterpieces displayed was a third-generation Kanenobu sword that was made sometime between 1688 and 1704.

Since it has been called La Caleta for much longer than it has ever been called Catalan Bay, the second theory and the most probably just in 1704 on the capture of Gibraltar by an Anglo-Dutch combined operation, that expedition landing in that place around 350 Catalans followers of Charles of Austria, third theory suggests that the latter could simply be an English mispronunciation of Caleta.

Ned Ward's most memorable work was The London Spy ( 1704 – 1706 ).

Ned Ward's most memorable work was The London Spy ( 1704 – 1706 ).

It has several old churches, the most notable being the 17th century Uniate church and the Roman Catholic church, built for John Hunyadi in 1449 and rebuilt ( 1701 – 1704 ) in a simple Gothic style.

Six of his most famous sermons were edited, with a biographical sketch of their author, by the Oratorian Borde in 1704.

In 1704 – 06, Carolina Governor Col. James Moore led colonial militia and Ochese Creek and Yamasee warriors in raids that destroyed the Spanish missions of the Florida interior ; they captured some 10, 000 unarmed ' mission Indians ,' the Timucua and Apalachee, and sold them into slavery.

St Clement, Eastcheap: the interior looking westwards, August 2007The present organ's oak case is the same one made to enclose the organ that was built for St Clement's in 1696, probably by Renatus Harris who maintained the instrument until 1704.

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.

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.

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.

" 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.

The first duke was also honoured with Imperial titles: Emperor Joseph I created him a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1704, and in 1705, he was created Imperial Prince of Mindelheim ( once the lordship of the noted soldier Georg von Frundsberg ).

Chambers, in 1728, followed the earlier lead of John Harris's Lexicon Technicum of 1704 and later editions ( see also below ); this work was by its title and content " A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves ".

By 1704 the Julian calendar was eleven days behind the Gregorian, and the siege thus began on 21 July according to the Julian.

On the other hand, even the British or the Gibraltarians sometimes date the beginning of British sovereignty in 1704 ( for instance, in its speech at the United Nations in 1994, the Gibraltar Chief Minister at the time, Joe Bossano, stated that Gibraltar has been a British colony ever since it was taken by Britain in 1704 ).

Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

There, a new settlement was formed, being granted a council two years later ( 1706 ), with the name of San Roque, and being considered by the Spanish Crown as the heir to the lost town of Gibraltar ( historical objects and records predating 1704 were subsequently taken to San Roque where they remain to this day.

With economic stagnation since the late 17th century, which was particularly acute in 1704 ; the country depended more and more heavily on sales of cattle and linen to England, who used this to create pressure for a union.

They inflicted a few resounding defeats to the French army ; the Battle of Blenheim in 1704 was the first major land battle lost by France since its victory at Rocroi in 1643.

Under the regency of the Bavarian electors Munich was an important centre of baroque life but also had to suffer under Habsburg occupations in 1704 and 1742.

This represented a break with the past, in that previously it was believed that external and absolute reality could impress itself, as it was, on an individual, as, for example, in John Locke's ( 1632 – 1704 ) empiricism, which saw the mind beginning as a tabula rasa ( An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690 ).