1705

• English physician David Hartley, best known for an interesting (incorrect) neurological theory about the origin of thought.
• English poet Stephen Duck.
• British admiral Edward Hawke.
• British politician Henry Fox.
• French sculptor Louis-François Roubiliac.
• French sculptor René-Michel Slodtz.
• Scottish author David Malloch. (also Mallet)
• French painter Carle van Loo.

• Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli.
• Bohemian composer Franz Von Biber.
• German composer Johann Paul von Westhoff.
• French composer Jean Gilles.
• French courtesan Madame Ninon de Lenclos.
• Italian painter Luca Giordano.
• English theologian and naturalist John Ray.
• Japanese Confucian scholar Ito Jinsai.
• Duke Georg Wilhelm of Brunswick - Lüneburg - Celle.
• Leopold I, archduke of Austria and Holy Roman Emperor.  His son Joseph I inherits both titles.
• Princess Catherine of Braganza, consort of former English King Charles II.

• Virginia passes a law forbidding interracial marriage, and consigning that all blacks to be lifelong slaves.
• Isaac Newton is knighted by Queen Anne (albeit as political patronage).
• Edmund Halley predicts that the comet of 1682 will return in 1755.
• The Beylik of Tunis breaks away from The Ottoman Empire.
• The late Georg Wilhelm's nephew (future British King George I) inherits Celle, which had been the capital of Brunswick-Lüneburg since 1292, and moves the capital of his duchy to Hannover.
• Mughal forces beseige the Sikh stronghold of Anandpur. Guru Gobind Singh escapes but most of the Sihk manuscripts are destroyed.
• Construction is begun, at state expense, on the sumptuous Blenheim Palace. This is intended as a gift fo the Duke of Marlborough for his victory at the Battle of Blenheim the previous year.
• The War of the Spanish Succession/Queen Anne's War:
• The Duc de Vendôme defeats Prince Eugene of Savoy at the Battle of Cassano].
• The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough have a falling-out.
• Elixheim
• (March 10) (Battle of Marbella) An English fleet secures the previous year's occupation of Gibraltar by destroying the French fleet besieging it.
• Bajadoz
• (May) An anti-Bourbon uprising begins in Catalonia.
• (June) English and Catalan envoys sign a pact in Genoa favoring the Hapsburg pretender, Archduke Charles of Austria, with England guaranteeing Catalonia's autonomy.
• (August 16) The Anglo-Duthc fleet captures Valencia
• (October 9) Barcelona surrenders to the Anglo-Dutch fleet. Bourbon troops retreat into France soon after.
• (October) Charles enters Barcelona and proclaims himself King "Charles III" of Spain. He calls the Catalonian Cortes, as it happens, for the last time.
• (November) Bourbon pretender Philip V begins a siege of Barcelona.
• The Great Northern War:
• Tsar Peter the Great has to stop fighting Swedish king Charles XII for a time to suppress a revolt in Astrakhan.
• Peter institues conscription to raise the forces he needs to defeat Charles.
• (July 16)  Swedish General Leuwenhaupt defeats a Saxon army at Gemauerthof.
• (November 18) The Swedes retake Warsaw.
• Charles encircles the Russian army at Grodno (then in Lithuania, now in Belarus)

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