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 ).

* Ninon de l ' Enclos ( 1615 – 1705 ): lover of the Prince of Condé and Gaspard de Coligny

In 1705, Walpole was appointed a member of the Council of the Lord High Admiral ( then Prince George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne ), a body which oversaw naval affairs.

* 1705 – 1714: His Serene Highness The Prince of Mindelheim

Duke Joseph Ferdinand Leopold of Bavaria, Prince of Asturias ( 28 October 1692 – 6 February 1699 ) was the son of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria ( 1679 – 1705, 1714 – 1726 ) and his first wife, Maria Antonia of Austria, daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, maternal granddaughter of King Felipe IV of Spain.

Count Imre Thököly de Késmárk ( Thököly / Tököly / Tökölli Imre in Hungarian, Mirko Thököly in Croatian, Imrich Tököli in Slovak ; April 25, 1657 – September 13, 1705 ) was a Hungarian statesman, leader of an anti-Habsburg uprising, Prince of Transylvania, and ( briefly ) vassal king of Upper Hungary.

During three campaigns in that country he proved himself a worthy antagonist to Prince Eugène of Savoy, whom he at last defeated in 1705 at Cassano in a magnificent show of courage and command over his troops, converting the impending defeat that his indolent brother, Philippe, the Grand Prior, had incurred, into a glorious success.

In 1705 Leopold was sent with a Prussian corps to join Prince Eugene in Italy, and on August 6 fought at the Battle of Cassano.

She was renamed HMS Prince in 1705, HMS Princess in 1716 and HMS Princess Royal in 1728.

She was renamed HMS Prince in 1705, HMS Princess in 1711 and HMS Princess Royal in 1728.

From 1705 onward, all other portions of Brunswick-Lüneburg except Wolfenbüttel had been held by the Prince of Calenberg and Celle, i. e. the Elector of Hanover, but the Wolfenbüttel line retained its independence from Hanover.

* Alois John Adolf ( 1702 – 1705 ), Prince of Bavaria

In 1705, he had the fortune of being at Epsom races when Prince George of Denmark, husband of Anne of Great Britain was taken ill. Dr Arbuthnot was rushed to his side.

In addition to being a German, he also held British nationality, after successfully claiming it under the Sophia Naturalization Act 1705 in the case of Attorney-General-v-HRH Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover 1 All ER 49.

Count Leopold Joseph von Daun ( or Dhaun ) ( September 24, 1705 – February 5, 1766 ), later Prince of Thiano, Austrian field marshal, was born at Vienna, as son of Count Wirich Philipp von Daun.

Being a descendant of Sophia of Hanover, and having rights under the Act of Settlement 1701, as amended by the Sophia Naturalization Act 1705, Prince Frederick was naturalised as a British citizen in October 1947 under the name Mr. Friedrich Von Preussen.

* in 1705, the French under Vendôme defeated the Imperial forces under Prince Eugene of Savoy during the War of the Spanish Succession ; the famous strategist Folard was severely wounded in this battle ;

* Georg Wilhelm ( 1624 – 1705 ), Prince of Calenberg 1648-1665, Prince of Lüneburg 1665-1705

Both territories finally merged after George William's death in 1705 to the Electorate of Hanover under John Frederick's nephew George I Louis, Prince of Calenberg.

Painted by Michael Dahl in 1705. Portrait of Anne, Queen of Great Britain | Anne's husband, Prince George of Denmark.

In 1705 he got the chance of painting the portrait of Prince George of Denmark on several canvases.

Captured by Nicolas Catinat in 1691, Nice was restored to Savoy in 1696 ; but it was again besieged by the French in 1705, and in the following year its citadel and ramparts were demolished.

In 1705, the Superior-General of the Lazarists requested that the holy process of de Paul's canonization be instituted.

Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.

The year 1705 proved almost entirely barren for the Duke whose military disappointments were only partly compensated by efforts on the diplomatic front where, at the courts of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Vienna, Berlin and Hanover, Marlborough sought to bolster support for the Grand Alliance and extract promises of prompt assistance for the following year ’ s campaign.

* 1705 2 August – The Archduke Charles stopped over in Gibraltar on his way to the territories of the Crown of Aragon.

Introduced fauna by humans include rats and goats, which castaway Alexander Selkirk survived on during his four year stay from 1705 to 1709 ; his travails provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

In Western culture, the contemporary concept of a police paid by the government was developed by French legal scholars and practitioners in the 17th and early 18th centuries, notably with Nicolas Delamare's Traité de la Police (" Treatise on the Police "), first published in 1705.

The French made one more major attack on English troops in 1705 during the War of the Spanish Succession, as the over 8, 000 French troops on the island easily defeated the 1, 000 English posts.

Jonathan Swift was a strong advocate for licensing, and Daniel Defoe wrote on 8 November 1705 that with the absence of licensing, " One Man Studies Seven Year, to bring a finish'd Peice into the World, and a Pyrate Printer, Reprints his Copy immediately, and Sells it for a quarter of the Price ... these things call for an Act of Parliament ".

Barcelona, which had supported the Archduke's claim to the throne of Spain and the allies in 1705, finally surrendered to the Bourbon army on 11 September 1714 following a long siege, ending the presence of the allies in Spain.

Year 1705 ( MDCCV ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Also in 1779 Banks took a lease on an estate called Spring Grove, the former residence of Elisha Biscoe ( 1705 – 1776 ), which he eventually bought outright from Biscoe's son also Elisha in 1808.

In the 17th century Francis Willughby ( 1635 – 1672 ) and John Ray ( 1627 – 1705 ) came up with the first major system of bird classification that was based on function and morphology rather than on form or behaviour.

Ultimately, it was Newton's friend, editor and publisher, Edmond Halley who, in his 1705 Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets, used Newton's new laws to calculate the gravitational effects of Jupiter and Saturn on cometary orbits.

This lecture would be published posthumously in 1705 as the memory model was unusually placed in a series of works on the nature of light.

* Mary Walpole ( c. 1705 – 2 January 1732 ), who married the 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley on 14 September 1723 and had two sons.

In 1705, de Moivre discovered, intuitively, that “ the centripetal force of any planet is directly related to its distance from the centre of the forces and reciprocally related to the product of the diameter of the evolute and the cube of the perpendicular on the tangent ”.

In 1705 he developed a second steam engine with the help of Gottfried Leibniz, based on an invention by Thomas Savery, but this used steam pressure rather than atmospheric pressure.

The first years on the frontier were harsh ; of the 390 French who settled at Manakin Town, only 150 lived there by 1705.

Many French died the first season ; by 1705 others lived on their farms outside town in the English manner, or had migrated to other parts of Virginia.

The town of Hatboro is located on land purchased from William Penn by the family of Nicholas More around 1705.

This was followed in the summer by an engagement between Mary and John Montagu, heir to the Earl of, and later Duke of, Montagu, ( they later married on 20 March 1705 ( O. S .)).

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.

* Nathaniel Clements: 1705 – 77 Government and Treasury Official, Managed extensive financial functions from 1720 – 77 on behalf of the Government, de facto Minister for Finance 1740 – 77, extensive property owner and developer.