In history, year 1704 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1704.
Top Historical Events of the Year 1704 ⚡:
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
|---|
| 25 january | English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their native allies began a series of brutal raids against a largely pacific population of Apalachee in Spanish Florida. |
| 24 april | The first issue of The Boston News-Letter, the first continuously published newspaper in British North America, was published. |
| 13 august | War of the Spanish Succession-The Duke of Marlborough led Allied forces to a crucial victory in the Battle of Blenheim. |
| 28 February | 40 killed and 100 kidnapped by Indians attacked at Deerfield Mass. |
| 17 April | First American newspaper; Published by John Campbell in Boston. |
| 28 May | Battle of Smolenike: The Kuruk rebels defeated the Austrian army and its allies. |
| 13 June | Battle of Koronko: Austrian and Denmark, Prussia, Croatia, Germany defeated their allies and Vojvodina Kurux. |
| 12 July | Stanislav Leszczynski was made king of Poland. |
| 03 August | Gibraltar captured the English fleet of Kallenburah. |
| 07 September | War of Spanish Succession; Launched the twelfth siege of Gibraltar by French and Spanish troops. |
Famous birthdays in the year 1704:
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
|---|
| 01 January | Soame Jenyns / Poet / United Kingdom |
| 02 October | František Tůma / Composer / Czech Republic |
| 03 September | Joseph de Jussieu / Explorer / France |
| 04 June | Benjamin Huntsman / Business Man / United Kingdom |
| 07 May | Carl Heinrich Graun / Composer / Germany |
| 09 October | Johann Andreas Segner / Mathematician / Germany |
| 10 April | Benjamin Heath / Author / United Kingdom |
| 11 June | Carlos Seixas / Composer / Portugal |
| 12 February | Charles Pinot Duclos / Author / France |
| 15 July | August Gottlieb Spangenberg / Bishop / Germany |
| 17 June | John Kay / Engineer / United Kingdom |
| 22 June | John Taylor / Author / United Kingdom |
| 24 June | Jean-Baptiste de Boyer / Author / France |
| 28 February | Louis Godin / Academic / France |
| 29 October | John Byng / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 31 July | Gabriel Cramer / Mathematician / Switzerland |