Year 1704 (MDCCIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar. 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

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January–June

August 4: Gibraltar.

• February 29 – Canadians (actual Qu b cois) and Native Americans sack Deerfield, Massachusetts.
• February – In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated with the Masque de la Mobile in the capital of French Louisianne, Mobile (Alabama).
• April 24 – The first regular newspaper in British North America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
• May 1 – The Boston News-Letter first successful newspaper in the US is published

July–December

• August 4 – English and Dutch forces under Sir George Rooke capture Gibraltar from Spain.
• August 13 – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Blenheim: Allied troops under John Churchill, the Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat the Franco-Bavarian army.
• August 24 – French and English fleets clash off M laga, causing heavy casualties in both sides but without sinking any ships.

August 13: Battle of Blenheim.

Date unknown

• A Tale of a Tub, the first major satire by Jonathan Swift, is published.
• Isaac Newton publishes his Opticks.
• The Students' Monument is built in Aiud, Romania.
• The Sultanate of Brunei cedes its north-east territories to the Sultanate of Sulu.
• The lower 3 counties of the Province of Pennsylvania become the colony of Delaware.
• An earthquake strikes Gondar, Ethiopia.
• Daniel Defoe documents the Great Storm of 1703 with eyewitness testimonies in The Storm (1704).
• Great Northern War: Final defeat of Poland by Karl XII. Augustus II the Strong deposed and replaced by Karl's ally Stanislaw Leszczynski.
• Great Northern War: Russian troops under Tsar Peter the Great capture Tartu and Narva.
• Rome decrees that Roman ceremonial practice in Latin (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions.
• 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.

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Births

• January 1 – Soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787)
• February 12 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (d. 1772)
• February 28 – Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760)
• April 10 – Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
• June 4 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776)
• June 11 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (d. 1742)
• June 17 – John Kay, English inventor (d. 1780)
• June 22 – John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
• June 24 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771)
• July 15 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (d. 1792)
• July 31 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752)
• October 29 – John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757)
• November 1 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encyclopedist (d. 1779)
• December 31 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist (d. 1761)

Deaths

• February 2 – Guillaume Fran ois Antoine, Marquis de l'H pital, French mathematician (b. 1661)
• February 23 – Georg Muffat, German composer (b. 1645)
• February 24 – Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (b. 1643)
• March 17 – Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer (b. 1641)
• April 8 – Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624)
• April 8 – Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641)
• April 10 – William Egon of F rstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629)
• April 12 – Jacques-B nigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer (b. 1627)
• April 15 – Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (b. 1628)
• May 3 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Austrian composer (b. 1644)
• May 13 – Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632)
• June 18 – Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662)
• June 30 – John Quelch, English pirate (b. 1666)
• July 3 – Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
• July 7 – Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (b. c. 1657)
• July 20 – Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620)
• July 22 – Selim I Giray Crimean khan
• August 14 – Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)
• October 28 – John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
• November 4 – Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)

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