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
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