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 February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

For the Grand Alliance – Austria, England, and the Dutch Republic – the battle had followed an indecisive campaign against the Bourbon armies of King Louis XIV of France in 1705.

The Duke of Marlborough had intended the 1705 campaign – an invasion of France through the Moselle valley – to complete the work of Blenheim and persuade King Louis XIV to make peace, but the plan had been thwarted by both friend and foe alike.

The French moved first to Tirlemont, ( as if to threaten Zoutleeuw, abandoned by the French in October 1705 ), before turning southwards, heading for Jodoigne – this line of march took Villeroi ’ s army towards the narrow aperture of dry ground between the Mehaigne and Petite Gheete rivers close to the small villages of Ramillies and Taviers ; but neither commander quite appreciated how far his opponent had travelled.

The Sophia Naturalization Act 1705 granted the right of British nationality to Sophia's non-Roman Catholic descendants ; those who had obtained the right to British citizenship via this Act at any time before its repeal by the British Nationality Act 1948 retain this lawful right today.

They had not been used as a way of raising revenue except briefly between 1694 and 1705.

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.

In 1705 he founded the Order of Sincerity ( Ordre de la Sincérité ), which was renamed in 1734 to the Order of the Red Eagle and had the monastery church built, which was completed in 1711.

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

In June 1705, Queen Sophia Charlotte's nephew, George Augustus, the electoral prince of Hanover, visited the Ansbach court, supposedly " incognito ", to inspect Caroline, as his father the Elector did not want his son to enter into a loveless arranged marriage as he himself had.

The original Norman northwest tower, which had a lead spire until 1705, was demolished in 1834, due to structural concerns.

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.

Joseph Riggs ( seemingly the son of Edward Riggs ) had a house just south of the Browns ' house, at the northwest corner of South Orange Avenue and Ridgewood Road, according to a road survey of 1705.

The French and the Tories in England dismissed arguments that only Dutch obstructionism had robbed Marlborough of a great victory in 1705, confirmed in their belief that Blenheim had been a lucky strike and that Marlborough was a general not to be feared.

At the Battle of Cassano ( 1705 ), he suffered a neck wound so severe he thereafter had to wear a silver stock.

From 1378 to 1705, Celle was the official residence of the Lüneburg branch of the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( House of Welf ) who had been banished from their original ducal seat by its townsfolk.

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.

He was baptised on 21 September 1705, in the same parish where his parents had been married more than ten years earlier.

The first queen dowager in over a century ( Charles II's widow, Catherine of Braganza, had died in 1705, and Mary of Modena, wife of the deposed James II, died in 1718 ), Adelaide survived her husband by twelve years.

By 1705, Andover's population had begun to move southward and the idea of a new meeting house in the south end of town was proposed.

: John Erskine, 22nd Earl of Mar had served as Secretary of State of an independent Scotland since 1705.

Charles III, as he was known, disembarked in his kingdom in 1705, and stayed there for six years, only being able to exercise his rule in Catalonia, until the death of his brother, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor ; he returned to Vienna to assume the imperial crown.

Here lies the Body of JOHN EVELYN Esq of this place, second son of RICHARD EVELYN Esq who having served the Publick in several employments of which that Commissioner of the Privy Seal in the reign of King James the 2nd was most Honourable: and perpetuated his fame by far more lasting Monuments than those of Stone, or Brass: his Learned and useful works, fell asleep the 27th day of February 1705 / 6 being the 86th Year of his age in full hope of a glorious resurrection thro faith in Jesus Christ.

However, by a provision in the Act of Settlement 1701 ( repealed in 1705 and re-enacted in modified form by the Place Act 1707 ), an MP who accepted an office of profit under the Crown was obliged to leave his post, it being feared that his independence would be compromised if he were in the King's pay.

The present house incorporates a few components from Tudor times but is mainly the wing added to the old house in 1705 ( the north-west corner being the work of ' Mr Mathews ' ( according to the author of the Beauties of England and Wales ).

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.

The term was also used by Irish writer John Toland in his 1705 work Socinianism Truly Stated, by a pantheist that described pantheism as the " opinion of those who believe in no other eternal being but the universe.

His first London appearance was in 1704 as Dominick, in Dryden's Spanish Friar, and he continued to take important parts at Drury Lane, being the original Pounce in Steele's Tender Husband ( 1705 ), Sergeant Kite in Farquhar's Recruiting Officer, and Sir Francis Gripe in Mrs Centlivre's Busybody.

After studying law in his native town, and attaining the rank of captain in the Tirolese Landwehr, the young man, who had the advantage of being the grandson of Joseph von Hormayr ( 1705 – 1778 ), chancellor of Tirol, obtained a post in the foreign office at Vienna ( 1801 ), from which he rose in 1803 to be court secretary and, being a near friend of the Archduke Johann of Austria, director of the secret archives of the state and court for thirteen months.

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.

During the Great Northern War Nieroth was involved in several successful battles, Battle of Warsaw in 1705 being his greatest success.

Important titles are here his Religio bibliopolae in imitation of Dr. Browns Religio medici ( 1691 ), his The Dublin scuffle being a challenge sent by John Dunton, citizen of London ( 1699 ) and his Life and Errors of John Dunton ( 1705 ).

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.

One pamphlet ( originally published anonymously ) entitled A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day after her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September, 1705, deals with interaction between the spiritual realm and the physical realm.

Between 1705 and 1710 the French built Fort Royal at St. George's which is now know as Fort George.

Between 1702 and 1705 Telemann composed at least eight operas, four of which went to the Leipzig operahouse and four to the Weissenfels court.

On 22 August 1705, Caroline arrived in Hanover for her wedding to George Augustus ; they were married that evening in the palace chapel at Herrenhausen.

In April 1705 the Swedes returned, and appeared at the monastery again in September 1709.

On 12 May 1705, the Virginia General Assembly passed an act to naturalise the 148 Huguenots still resident at Manakintown.

With Charpentier's help, he composed an opera, Philomèle, performed at his residence in 1694 ; and in 1705 the prince wrote a second opera, Penthée, to a libretto by the Marquis de La Fare.

Thanks to Wren's influence as Surveyor-General, Hawksmoor was named Clerk of the Works at Kensington Palace ( 1689 ) and Deputy Surveyor of Works at Greenwich ( 1705 ).

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

Highland Church of Christ at 1705 Highland Street in Texarkana, Arkansas

In 1705, Main Street was laid out at the same time as the road from Metuchen to Woodbridge, which one source calls a " reworking of the original road ".

He arrived at London on 10 January 1705, having been gone from England ten years and nine months.

An infantry regiment of the British Army was formed at Lichfield in 1705 by Col. Luke Lillingstone in the King's Head pub in Bird Street.

Also thanks to the Queen's presence, he was made an MD at Cambridge University on April 16, 1705.

In 1705, Arbuthnot became physician extraordinary to Queen Anne, and at the same time was put on the board trying to publish the Historia coelestius.

Johann Jakob Griesbach ( January 4, 1745 – March 24, 1812 ), German biblical textual critic, was born at Butzbach, a small town in the state of Hesse-Darmstadt, where his father, Konrad Kaspar ( 1705 – 1777 ), was pastor.

In 1704 and 1705 he took part in Queen Anne's War and was present at the Raid on Deerfield.

From 1694 to 1705, he operated a ship building business at Taunton, Massachusetts.

In 1705, Verrio was granted by the queen an annual pension of £ 200 and allowed to keep his lodgings at Hampton Court.