1704 in History – What happened in year 1704

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