1704

1704 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1704; MDCCIV
Ab urbe condita	2457
Armenian calendar	1153; ԹՎ ՌՃԾԳ
Assyrian calendar	6454
Balinese saka calendar	1625–1626
Bengali calendar	1111
Berber calendar	2654
English Regnal year	2 Ann. 1 – 3 Ann. 1
Buddhist calendar	2248
Burmese calendar	1066
Byzantine calendar	7212–7213
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat); 4400 or 4340; — to —; 甲申年 (Wood Monkey); 4401 or 4341
Coptic calendar	1420–1421
Discordian calendar	2870
Ethiopian calendar	1696–1697
Hebrew calendar	5464–5465
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1760–1761
- Shaka Samvat	1625–1626
- Kali Yuga	4804–4805
Holocene calendar	11704
Igbo calendar	704–705
Iranian calendar	1082–1083
Islamic calendar	1115–1116
Japanese calendar	Genroku 17 / Hōei 1; (宝永元年)
Javanese calendar	1627–1628
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4037
Minguo calendar	208 before ROC; 民前208年
Nanakshahi calendar	236
Thai solar calendar	2246–2247
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

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century; 18th century ; 19th century;
Decades:	1680s; 1690s; 1700s; 1710s; 1720s;
Years:	1701; 1702; 1703; 1704; 1705; 1706; 1707;

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.

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[]

January 7 – Partial solar eclipse, Saros series 146, is visible in Antarctica.
January 25–26 – Apalachee massacre: English colonists from the Province of Carolina, and their native allies, stage a series of brutal raids against a largely pacific population of Apalachee, in Spanish Florida.
February 28 – A school for blacks is opened in New York City by Frenchman Elias Neau.
February 29 – Raid on Deerfield (Queen Anne's War): French Canadians and Native Americans sack Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing over 50 English colonists.
February – In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated with the Masque de la Mobile in the capital of Louisiana (New France), Mobile, Alabama.
March 7 – War of the Spanish Succession: Prince Karl of Habsburg, brother of Joseph I , the Holy Roman Emperor and a pretender to the throne of Spain, arrives in Portugal on the English warship HMS Royal Katherine as part of George Rooke's English fleet sailing into Lisbon.
March 23 – War of the Spanish Succession: The English Navy ships HMS Kent, HMS Bedford and HMS Antelope intercept two newly-built Spanish warships, Porta Coeli and Santa Teresa off of the coast of Cape Spartel, as the Spaniards attempt to sail into the Strait of Gibraltar. The two Spanish ships are captured after a seven-hour battle and taken toward Lisbon, but the Santa Teresa sinks along the way.

April–June[]

April 21 – Battle of Biskupice: The Hungarians (Kurucs) win a costly victory over the Danes.
April 24 – The first regular newspaper in the Thirteen Colonies of British North America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
May 19–23 – Vigorous Strombolian activity from Mount Vesuvius, Italy is recorded.
May 28 – Battle of Smolenice: Kuruc rebels defeat the Austrian army and its allies.
June 2 – Annular solar eclipse is visible from a region of the Southern Ocean between South Africa and Antarctica.
June 13 – Battle of Koroncó: Austrians and their allies from Denmark, Prussia, Croatia, Germany and Vojvodina defeat the Kurucs.
June 17 – Total lunar eclipse takes place, Saros series 125.

July–September[]

July – Daniel Defoe documents the Great Storm of 1703 in England, with eyewitness testimonies, in The Storm.
July 12 – Great Northern War – King Charles XII of Sweden forces the election of his ally Stanisław Leszczyński as King of Poland, in place of Augustus II the Strong.
August 3 (July 23 Old Style) – War of the Spanish Succession – Gibraltar is captured from Spain, by English and Dutch forces under Sir George Rooke.^[1]
August 7 – Battle of Orford Ness.
August 13 (August 2 OS) – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Blenheim: Allied troops under John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat the Franco-Bavarian army.
August 24 (August 13 OS) – War of the Spanish Succession – French and English fleets clash off Málaga, causing heavy casualties on both sides, but without sinking any ships.
September 8 – War of the Spanish Succession – The Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar by French and Spanish troops begins.
September 12 – War of the Spanish Succession: The siege of the French-held German town of Landau, by Holy Roman Empire troops under the command of Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden-Baden begins and lasts for more than ten weeks before the French surrender on November 23. During the siege, the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I visits the area in a newly-developed vehicle, a convertible horse-drawn carriage that has a removable roof. The style of vehicle itself is later called a "landau".
September 28 – Damat Hasan Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, is removed from office by Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III, and replaced by Kalaylikoz Ahmed Pasha.

October–December[]

October 24 – A peace treaty is signed between Prince Ferenc Rákóczi of Transylvania, and representatives of the Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I at Schemnitz (now the Slovakian town of Banská Štiavnica)
October 28 – Great Northern War: The Battle of Poniec takes place as King Charles XII leads Swedish troops in pursuit of the Saxon Army commanded by General Johann von der Schulenburg. The Swedes are forced to retreat despite surrounding the Saxons, and Schulenburg's troops escape.
November 11 – Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar: A Spanish Bourbon special forces battalion, guided by Simon Susarte, scales the steepest side of the Rock of Gibraltar in an attempt to surprise the British defenders, and kills the English sentries who have been manning the lookout. The attack is foiled the next day when a drummer boy, who was bringing food to the sentries, spots the invaders and raises the alarm.
November 26 – The inauguration of the newly built Kastelskirken takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark.
November 27 – Annular solar eclipse is visible through Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, seatern China, Myanmar and northern Philippines.
December 6 – Battle of Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.
December 11 – Partial lunar eclipse takes place, Saros series 130.
December 25 – The fall of the meteorite of Barcelona is seen and heard over distances up to hundreds of kilometres and is interpreted as a divine sign.

Date unknown[]

Great Northern War: Russian troops under Tsar Peter the Great capture Tartu and Narva.
The Sultanate of Brunei cedes its north-east territories to the Sultanate of Sulu.
The lower three counties of the Province of Pennsylvania become the colony of Delaware.
An earthquake strikes Gondar, Ethiopia.
Tenerife's earliest recorded volcanic eruption takes place from three fissure emission centres: Siete Fuentes, Fasnia and Arafo.
A Tale of a Tub, the first major satire by Jonathan Swift (written 1694–1697), is published in London, running through three editions this year.
Isaac Newton publishes his Opticks. He also predicts that the world will end in 2060.
The Students' Monument is built in Aiud, Romania.
Chinese Rites controversy: Rome decrees that Roman ceremonial practice in Latin (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions.
Nerchinsky Zavod is founded in the Nerchinsko-Zavodsky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia by Greek mining engineers.
Thomas Darley purchases the bay Arabian horse Darley Arabian in Aleppo, Syria, and ships him to stud in England, where he becomes the most important foundation sire of all modern thoroughbred racing bloodstock.
Giancomo Miraldi observes Martian polar ice caps as "white spots" at the Martian poles.

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