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** ], English writer and Member of Parliament (d. ])
** ], English cleric (d. ])
* ] – ], Bristol-born English slave trader and merchant (d. ])
* ] – ], Icelandic pastor, Bishop of Skálholt from 1754 to 1785 (d. ])
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* ] – ], Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (d. ])
* ] – ], Danish courtier and philanthropist (d. ])
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* ] – ], colonial American lawyer (d. ])
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** ], French writer (d. ])
** ], 30th Governor of Zeylan during the Dutch period in Ceylon (d. ])
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** ], Jesuit ascetic author (d. ])
** ], French sculptor who worked in both the rococo and neoclassical style (d. ])
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** ], French letter writer and abbess of the Ursuline order (d. ])
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** ], German prince (d. ])
* ] – ], German physician and botanist (d. ])
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** ], French astronomer (d. ])) ** ], French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences (d. ])
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=== April–June ===
* ] – ], principal mistress of King George II from the mid-1730s (d. ])
* ] – ], Danish portrait painter (d. ])
* ] – ], Jesuit professor and writer (d. ])
* ] – ], English classical scholar (d. ]) * ] – ], English classical scholar (d. ])
* ] – ], English inventor and manufacturer (d. ]) * ] – ] (d. ])
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** ], Italian oboe virtuoso and bassoonist (d. ])
** ], architect and businessman active in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège (d. ])
* ] – ], American merchant (d. ])
* ] – ], Irish politician (d. ])
* ] – ], Scottish poet from the labouring classes (d. ])
* ] – ], general of Mysore and the father of Hyder Ali (d. ])
* ] – ], German composer and tenor (d. ])
* ] – ], Italian painter and architect (d. ])
* ] – ], French history and portrait painter (d. ])
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* ] – ], English inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel (d. ])
* ] – ], Portuguese composer (d. ]) * ] – ], Portuguese composer (d. ])
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* ] – ], English inventor (d. ]) * ] – ], inventor of the flying shuttle (d. ])
* ] – ], English classical scholar (d. ]) * ] – ], English classical scholar (d. ])
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* ] – ], German religious leader (d. ]) ** ], English actor and theatre manager (d. ])
* ] – ], scholar of Arabic (d. ])

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* ] – ], Swiss mathematician (d. ]) * ] – ], Swiss mathematician (d. ])
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** ], French-Canadian Businesswomen who lived in New France (d. ])
** ], French general and nobleman (d. ])
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* ] – ], French botanist and explorer (d. ])
* ] – ], French Rococo portraitist, working primarily with pastels (d. ])
* ] – ], son of Charles Hope (d. ])
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* ] – ], engraver, first in a family line of prolific and well-respected engravers (d. ])
* ] – ], French entrepreneur with business ventures in New France (now Quebec) (d. ])
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* ] – ], Anglican priest (d. ])
* ] – ], German physician and naturalist (d. ])

=== October–December ===
* ] – ], British admiral (d. ]) * ] – ], British admiral (d. ])
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* ] – ], German encyclopedist (d. ])
** ], Swedish official and noble (d. ])
** ], German encyclopedist (d. ])
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** ], British army officer in King George's War and the French and Indian War (d. ])
** ], English antiquary and clergyman (d. ])
* ] – ], Dutch nobleman and politician (d. ])
* ] – ], French officer of the Royal venery (d. ])
* ] – ], Dutch botanist (d. ])
* ] – ], MP (d. ])
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** ], British military engineer (d. ])
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* ] – ], Austrian physician of Dutch ancestry (d. ])
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** ], American politician from the colonial period, President of the New Jersey Provincial Council from 1745 to 1776 (d. ])
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* ] – ], British Army officer (d. ])
* ] – ], American botanist (d. ]) * ] – ], American botanist (d. ])
* ] – ], German organist (d. ]) * ] – ], German organist (d. ])

Revision as of 12:38, 16 April 2020

Calendar year
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1704 by topic
Arts and science
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Lists of leaders
Birth and death categories
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Works category
1704 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1704
MDCCIV
Ab urbe condita2457
Armenian calendar1153
ԹՎ ՌՃԾԳ
Assyrian calendar6454
Balinese saka calendar1625–1626
Bengali calendar1110–1111
Berber calendar2654
English Regnal year2 Ann. 1 – 3 Ann. 1
Buddhist calendar2248
Burmese calendar1066
Byzantine calendar7212–7213
Chinese calendar癸未年 (Water Goat)
4401 or 4194
    — to —
甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
4402 or 4195
Coptic calendar1420–1421
Discordian calendar2870
Ethiopian calendar1696–1697
Hebrew calendar5464–5465
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1760–1761
 - Shaka Samvat1625–1626
 - Kali Yuga4804–4805
Holocene calendar11704
Igbo calendar704–705
Iranian calendar1082–1083
Islamic calendar1115–1116
Japanese calendarGenroku 17 / Hōei 1
(宝永元年)
Javanese calendar1627–1628
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4037
Minguo calendar208 before ROC
民前208年
Nanakshahi calendar236
Thai solar calendar2246–2247
Tibetan calendar阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
1830 or 1449 or 677
    — to —
阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
1831 or 1450 or 678
August 13: Battle of Blenheim.

1704 (MDCCIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1704th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 704th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1700s decade. As of the start of 1704, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Calendar year

In the Swedish calendar it was a leap year starting on Friday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

Births

Louis, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine born 28 January
Charles Pinot Duclos born 12 February
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne born 15 February
Louis Godin born 28 February
Jacques Dumont le Romain born 10 May
Carlos Seixas born 11 June
John Kay (flying shuttle) born 17 June
James Gabriel Montresor born 19 November

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Deaths

Menno van Coehoorn
John Locke

References

  1. "Historical Events for Year 1704 | OnThisDay.com". Historyorb.com. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
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