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

The father Lord Holland ( 1705 – 1774 ) was an ally of Robert Walpole and rival of Pitt the Elder.

Stemming from this, the Parliament of England decided that, to ensure the stability and future prosperity of Great Britain, full union of the two parliaments and nations was essential before Anne's death and used a combination of exclusionary legislation ( the Alien Act of 1705 ), politics, and bribery to achieve it within three years under the Act of Union 1707.

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.

In 1705, it was noted that electrostatic generator sparks travel a longer distance through low pressure air than through atmospheric pressure air.

Defoe made no attempt to explain why the same Parliament of Scotland which was so vehement for its independence from 1703 to 1705 became so supine in 1706.

Construction started in 1705 and the house was completed in 1722, the year of his death.

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 ).

* 1705 7 February – The last assault before the arrival of de Tessé was executed.

John Ray ( 29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705 ) was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history.

Johann Friedrich Endersch ( 25 October 1705 – 28 March 1769 ) was a German cartographer and mathematician.

Kuwait was founded in the early eighteenth century, in the year 1705, by members of the Bani Utbah tribe, some of which are Al-Khalifa, Al-Sabah, and Al-Jalahma.

John Ray ( 1627 – 1705 ) also known as John Wray, was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history.

Anne " Ninon " de l ' Enclos also spelled Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos ( 10 November 1620 – 17 October 1705 ) was a French author, courtesan and patron of the arts.

In 1705, Rømer was made the second Chief of the Copenhagen Police, a position he kept until his death in 1710.

The term was borrowed and first used in English by Irish writer John Toland in his 1705 work " Socinianism Truly Stated, by a pantheist ".

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.

Pope Clement XIV ( 31 October 1705 – 22 September 1774 ), born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, was Pope from 1769 to 1774.

Joseph Clement was not only the candidate of Emperor Leopold I ( 1658 – 1705 ) but of all European rulers, with the exception of the King of France and his supporter, King James II of England ( 1685 – 88 ).

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 ".

In 1705, he was married ; Antonino Biffi, the maestro di cappella of San Marco was a witness, and evidently was a friend of Albinoni's.

During this time he was also composing instrumental music in abundance: prior to 1705, he mostly wrote trio sonatas and violin concertos, but between then and 1719 he wrote solo sonatas and concertos for oboe.

In 1705, little progress was made by either France or the Allies in any theatre.

William's father was Robert Pitt ( 1680 – 1727 ), the eldest son of Governor Pitt, who served as a Tory Member of Parliament from 1705 to 1727.

A warrant dated 1705, signed by the parliamentary treasurer the Earl of Godolphin, appointed Vanbrugh as architect and outlined his remit.

Tschirnhaus had a wide knowledge of European science and had been involved in the European quest to perfect porcelain manufacture when in 1705 Böttger was appointed to assist him in this task.

In recognition, Burnet appointed him as a prebend of Salisbury from 1705.

In 1705 he served in Spain under Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough, notably at the Siege of Barcelona and in 1706 he was appointed English minister in Spain, but his duties were still military as well as diplomatic, and in 1708, after some differences with Peterborough, who favoured defensive measures only, he was made commander-in-chief of the British forces in that country.

When he returned at last to England on 30 December 1705, he gradually became alienated from his old political associates, and in 1710 he accepted the post of Lord Chamberlain in the Tory administration, to which the queen appointed him without the knowledge of Godolphin and Marlborough ; his wife was at the same time made a Lady of the Bedchamber.

After the usual education for a cultivated young gentleman-three years at Oxford followed by the Grand Tour of Europe-he made his way as a courtier being appointed to the post of Groom Porter by Queen Anne in 1705.

He was called to the bar in 1683, and soon afterwards was appointed recorder of Abingdon, which borough he represented as a Tory in Parliament from 1690 to 1705.

In March 1705 Bull was appointed bishop of St. David's, but he was aged and infirm.

In 1700 he was returned to parliament for Bere Alston in Devon ; he was appointed recorder of Glastonbury in 1705 and recorder of London in 1708.

In 1705, he was appointed professor of anatomy at Bologna.

In 1705 he was appointed deputy surveyor for the Lords Proprietor of Carolina.

In 1705, the Patriarch Carlos de Borja Centellas was appointed by the Pope to be Vicar General of the Spanish Armies, but from 1736 on Clement XII merged the office of Vicar General of the Spanish Armies with the Patriarchate of the West Indies pro tempore et ad septennium ( temporarily, for seven years ), and from 1741 on to the Royal Palace's Chaplaincy.

In 1698 ʿUmar az-Zaydānī had been appointed governor and chief tax collector ( Multazem ) of the Safad region by Emir Bashir Shihab the First ( 1698 – 1705 ), governor ( Wali ) of Mount Lebanon.

In 1705 Lewenhaupt won the Battle of Gemauerthof and was appointed Governor of Riga.

Lockhart, who was member for the city of Edinburgh in the Parliament of Scotland, was appointed a commissioner for arranging the union with England in 1705.

* Col. John Baylor III ( 1705 – 1772 ) of Newmarket, Virginia-planter and member of House of Burgesses ; one of the most important turfmen and breeders in colonial America

In 1705, Steele wrote The Tender Husband with Addison ’ s contributions, and later that year wrote the prologue to The Mistake, by John Vanbrugh, also an important member of the Whig Kit-Kat Club with Addison and Steele.

At the end of the 17th century Antiguan political opponents of Eliza's grandfather, John Lucas, believed that the Lucas family had powerful influence in London through Henry Grey ( 1664 – 1740 ), later Duke of Kent, a senior member of Queen Anne's government and Robert Lucas, 3rd Lord Lucas ( 1649 – 1705 ), then governor of the Tower of London.

He was elected member for Bossiney in 1705, and as commissioner for arranging the union with Scotland was largely instrumental in promoting that measure.

Burchett was elected as a member of the English Parliament in 1705 as a Whig and member of the ' Court Group ' representing the borough of Sandwich, in Kent.

He picked up other offices as he went along, becoming Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire and Lord Treasurer of Ireland in 1704, and was elected member for Westminster in 1705.

He served as member of Parliament for Thetford in Norfolk from 1702 to 1705, then becoming MP for York.

In 1705 he was made canon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin ; in 1715 he obtained the chief curacy attached to the same church ; and about two months before he died ( 1728 ) he was admitted a member of the order of Jesus.