Robert Dodsley ( 13 February 1704 – 23 September 1764 ) was an English bookseller and miscellaneous writer.

* Robert Harley: 18 May 1704 – 13 February 1708

For example, Robert Harley served simultaneously as Speaker and as a Secretary of State between 1704 and 1705.

** Robert Bertie, Lord Willoughby de Eresby ( 1684 – 1704 )

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.

* Sir Robert Bacon, 5th Baronet ( died 1704 )

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 ).

Henry Sydney ( or Sidney ), 1st Earl of Romney ( 8 April 1641 – 8 April 1704 ) was born in Paris, a son of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, of Penshurst Place in Kent, England, and his wife, born Lady Dorothy Percy, a daughter of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland and sister of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland.

Woolton Hall, Woolton, England is a former country house built in 1704 and extensively remodelled in 1772 by the influential architect Robert Adam.

In 1704 Robert Browne built Frampton Court in the vicinity of the village.

Robert Gillow ( 2 August 1704 – 1772 ) was an English furniture manufacturer.

The firm of Gillow's of Lancaster can be traced back to the luxury furniture and furnishings firm founded by Robert Gillow ( 1704 – 72 ) in 1730.

* Robert Carter II ( 1704 – 1734 ) married Priscilla Churchill.

By marriage its owner became Robert Wroth the MP for Guildford in 1704, 1707 and 1714 who died in 1720.

* Tangier 1680, Namur 1695, Gibraltar 1704 – 1705, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Lincelles, Egypt, Talavera, Barrosa, Fuentes d ' Onor, Salamanca, Nive, Peninsula, Waterloo, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882, Suakin 1885, Modder River, South Africa 1899 – 1902

In 1704, Thomas LeFebvre from Quebec bought a large tract of land along the Weskeag River on which he built a gristmill, with a house on the shoreline at what is now South Thomaston.

The oldest remaining parishes in the diocese are Christ Church in Quincy, founded in 1704, St. Paul's in Newburyport, founded as Queen Anne's Chapel in 1711, St. Michael's Church in Marblehead, founded in 1714, Christ Church in Boston ( Old North Church ), founded in 1723, and St. Andrew's Church in South Scituate ( now Hanover ), founded in 1727.

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

Hayle was initially a coal importing and ore exporting port but Hayle was initially dwarfed by nearby Angarrack, where a tin smelter was built in 1704 and mills and stamps converted / constructed to process the ore. Hayle's role was simply to serve as a convenient point to land coal from South Wales, which was then taken to Angarrack by mule.

Residents founded the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in 1870 and erected monuments to commemorate various events, including the Bloody Brook and 1704 attacks.

Hakodate flourished during the Hoei period ( 1704 – 11 ) and many new temples were founded in the area.

The Plumian chair was founded in 1704 by Thomas Plume, a member of Christ's and Archdeacon of Rochester, to " erect an Observatory and to maintain a studious and learned Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, and to buy him and his successors utensils and instruments quadrants telescopes etc.

Between 1702 and 1704 he delivered at the Marine Coffee House in Birchin Lane, London, the mathematical lectures founded by Sir Charles Cox, and advertised himself as a mathematical tutor at Amen Corner.

It was an old school founded in 1704 and formerly led by the Piarist Order, with severe discipline and rigid professors.

The Company was founded by Isaac Cookson in 1704 as a collection of metal and glass businesses on Tyneside.

* Nuestra Señora de la Ascención de Opodepe: founded 1704

The museum is within a former charity school, founded in 1704 by landowner, Michael Postgate.

Balaoan is one of the oldest municipalities in La Union, having been founded in 1704.

* Rakovac-According to a legend written in 1704, Rakovac was founded by a certain man, Raka, courtier of Despot Jovan Branković.

Santa Bárbara is a Brazilian city founded in 1704 and located in the state of Minas Gerais — 100 kilometers away from the capital Belo Horizonte.

Its predecessor was founded in 1704.

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.

) 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 ("".

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Castle in Pszczyna | Castle in Pleß, today Pszczyna, where the Promnitz family resided when Telemann worked for them in 1704 – 1706

In 1704 Telemann received an invitation to become Kapellmeister for the court of Count Erdmann II of Promnitz at Sorau ( now Żary, in Poland ).

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.

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 ).

1704 proposal of a flag for the Union of Crowns, a predecessor of the modern Union Flag ( introduced 1801 ).

This enclave was first established in 1704 and has since been used by Britain to act as a surety for control of the sea lanes into and out of the Mediterranean.

It is presented as a gift to the Duke of Marlborough for his involvement in the Battle of Blenheim in 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.

In 1704, he revised Carlo Francesco Pollarolo's opera Irene for performance at Naples.

* Carl Heinrich Graun ( 1704 – 1759 ) was Kapellmeister starting in 1740 for Frederick II of Prussia ( Frederick the Great )

By 1700, Moss had become a hub for both ship and land traffic between Copenhagen and Christiania, and in 1704 Moss Jernverk ( Moss Ironworks ) was established just north of the city center.

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet ( September 27, 1627 – April 12, 1704 ) was a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses.

In 1704 colonists retaliated for the tribe's attacking the farm of John Rowley, " known for his disputes " with them.

Orangeburg, named for William IV, Prince of Orange, the son-in-law of King George II, of England, was first settled by Europeans in 1704 when the Indian trader, George Sterling, set up a post there.