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.

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.

He died on 28 October 1704, and is buried in the churchyard of the village of High Laver, east of Harlow in Essex, where he had lived in the household of Sir Francis Masham since 1691.

* October 19 – Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( d. 1704 )

Admiral John Byng ( baptised 29 October 1704 – 14 March 1757 ) was a Royal Navy officer.

Born at Prague, Joseph Wenzel was the eldest son of Prince Philip Erasmus of Liechtenstein ( 11 September 1664-13 January 1704 ) and Christina Theresa von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort ( 12 October 1665-14 April 1730 ).

The Battle of Punitz occurred nearby on 28 October 1704 during the Great Northern War.

But the affair had a damaging effect on Murray's career, and he was deprived of office in October 1704.

William Bentinck, 1st Count Bentinck ( 6 November 1704 – 13 October 1774 ), who married Charlotte Sophie, Countess von Aldenburg ( 4 August 1715 – 5 February 1800 ) on 1 June 1733 and had two sons.

Johann Segner ( October 9, 1704 – October 5, 1777 ) was a Hungarian-born ( original name: Segner János András ) Carpatho-German scientist.

Anthony Ulrich ( German: Anton Ulrich ; 4 October 1633, Hitzacker – 27 March 1714, Salzdahlum ) was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruled over the Wolfenbüttel subdivision of the duchy from 1685 until 1702 jointly with his brother, and solely from 1704 until his death.

He commanded in the English Channel from 1704, and in October 1708 took command of.

* Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney 3 October 1689 – 8 April 1704 jointly with

On October 19, after the Soviets had detonated at least 20 nuclear devices, Ambassador Stevenson warned the UN General Assembly that this country, in `` self protection '', might have to resume above-ground tests.

It was a cold, windy day, the day after Kitti's death, but Stanley Gilborn paid no attention to the blustery October wind.

In October 2008 the Russian bank Gazprombank, the banking arm of Gazprom, acquired 100 percent of Armenian bank Areximbank after previously buying 80 percent of said bank in November 2007 and 94. 15 percent in July of the same year.

On 11 October 1715, Charlotte died, after giving birth to a son, the grand-duke Peter, future tsar Peter II.

For the first of these, he raised a large sum and a substantial force, arriving in Damietta on 24 October 1249, after the town had already been captured.

In October 2006, Dr. Dinter-Gottlieb established a commission to review the Acadia Advantage learning environment 10 years after inception.

Abd al-Rahman succeeded Abdallah the day after his death, 16 October 912.

The site was officially shutdown on October 31, 2006 after 17 years of service.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

The other three states, after issuing an impossible ultimatum to the Porte on 13 October, declared war on Turkey on 17 October.

A hasty counter-attack risked ruining his strategy for an offensive on his own terms in late October, planning for which had begun soon after he took command.

The city was plundered by the troops of Abd er Rahman in 732, after he had defeated Duke Eudes in the Battle of the River Garonne near Bordeaux and before the former was killed during the Battle of Tours on 10 October.

For example, after Henry V of England defeated a French army on October 25, 1415, he met with the senior French herald and they agreed to name the battle after the nearby castle and so it was called the Battle of Agincourt.

* On 14 October 2011 Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox resigned from the Cabinet after he " mistakenly allowed the distinction between personal interest and government activities to become blurred " over his friendship with Adam Werrity.

On 8 October 1908, just two days after Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, many men, some of them ranking Serbian ministers, officials and generals, held a meeting at City Hall in Belgrade.

Greece's main forces attacked from Thessaly into Macedonia through the Sarantaporo strait and after capturing Thessaloniki on 12 November ( on 26 October 1912, O. S.

Ospina describes how the Bacardi family and Company left Cuba after the Castro regime confiscated the Company ’ s Cuban assets on 15 October 1960 ; in particular, in nationalizing and banning all private property on the island as well as all bank accounts.

Almost forty years later, on 3 October 1935, after the League of Nations's weak response to the Abyssinia Crisis, the Italians launched a new military campaign endorsed by Benito Mussolini, the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

In October 2000, Slobodan Milošević was forced out of office after a disputed election.

However, this new election could not be held on time due to delay in preparation and has been postponed to October 2006 after an agreement was reached amongst the rival parties.

Following a constitutional referendum of July 2000, the president of the CNSP decided to run for president, and indeed declared himself president after the elections of 22 October 2000.

The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels and ships in waters outside Sri Lanka, including Ocean Trader ( in October 1994 ), Irish Mona ( in August 1995 ), Princess Wave ( in August 1996 ), Athena ( in May 1997 ), Misen ( in July 1997 ), Morong Bong ( in July 1997 ), MV Cordiality ( in September 1997 ), Princess Kash ( in August 1998 ), Newko ( in July 1999 ), Uhana ( in June 2000 ), Fuyuan Ya 225 ( Chinese trawler, in March 2003 ), MV Farah III ( in December 2006 ) and City of Liverpool ( in January 2007 ).

LTTE's people smuggling ships included MV Ocean Lady, which appeared in October 2009 off Canada's British Columbia coast with 76 Tamil asylum seekers ; MV Sun Sea, arrived in August 2010 off British Columbia, with 492 asylum seekers and MV Alicia, carrying 80 illegal immigrants, but was intercepted by Indonesian authorities in July 2011, allegedly heading towards Canada or New Zealand.

On 2 October, the ships again took to the sea towards Bantam.

On 7 October 2001, early combat operations including a mix of strikes from land-based B-1 Lancer, B-2 Spirit and B-52 Stratofortress bombers ; carrier-based F-14 Tomcat and F / A-18 Hornet fighters ; and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from both U. S. and British ships and submarines signaled the start of Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan ( OEF-A ).

By October, he was en route to South Africa to join, the flagship of the Cape squadron, the first of several ships on which he served during his midshipman years.

On 20 October, a list of ships and commanders at the time of the division of the fleet in 1666 was demanded from Pepys.

* October 11 – WWII – Battle of Cape Esperance: On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.

* October 18 – October 19 – WWII: Thirty-two ships are sunk from Convoy SC 7 and Convoy HX 79 by the most effective " wolfpack " of the war including U-boat aces Kretschmer, Prien and Schepke

* October 22 – Scilly naval disaster: four Royal Navy ships run aground in the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation.

* October 12 – Battle of Tory Island: A British Royal Navy squadron under Sir John Borlase Warren prevents French Republican ships commanded by Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart landing reinforcements for the Society of United Irishmen on the Donegal coast ; Irish leader Wolfe Tone is captured and later dies of wounds.

* June 24 – October 14 – The English ships Dobbs galley and California, under Captains William Moore and Francis Smith, explore Hudson Bay, discovering there is no Northwest Passage by this route.

" After effecting repairs in New York, Admiral Graves sailed from New York on 19 October with 25 ships of the line and transports carrying 7, 000 troops to relieve Cornwallis.

In October, Genoese ships arrived in southern Italy with the Black Plague, beginning the spread of the disease in the region.

Besieged from May until October 1574 by the Spanish, Leiden was relieved by the cutting of the dikes, thus enabling ships to carry provisions to the inhabitants of the flooded town.

When questioned about his order on 15 October 1939 for unrestricted submarine warfare including orders to fire on neutral ships, which Raeder had admitted even as he issued his order violated international law, Raeder stated in his defence: " Neutrals are acting for their own egotistical reasons and they must pay the bills if they die ".

After arriving at the island of Antigua in early October 1739, Edward Vernon sent three ships under the command of Captain Thomas Waterhouse to intercept Spanish merchant ships that made the route between La Guaira and Portobelo.

" In early October, the United Nations Security Council ( UNSC ) met on the matter of the canal's nationalization and adopted a resolution recognizing Egypt's right to control the canal as long as it continued to allow passage through it for foreign ships.

In October the French squadron was devastated by a cyclone, losing four ships of the line and suffering heavy damage to four more, and the surviving ships withdrew.

Delayed by the Nadezhda hitting a sand bank – and then being beaten by a storm, such that it was forced to stay at Bolsheretsk – the two other ships arrived in their destination, Avacha Bay in south-eastern Kamchatka, on 6 October.

Over a hundred other Dutch ships were captured by English privateers between October 1651 and July 1652.

In order to protect its position in North America, in October 1651 the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England passed the first of the Navigation Acts, which mandated that all goods imported into England must be carried by English ships or vessels from the exporting countries, thus excluding ( mostly Dutch ) middlemen.