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Sat Mar 17 2001 at 4:01:48
Born in 1704:
Swiss
mathematician
Gabriel Cramer
.
Italian
mathematician
Johann Castillon
.
French
mathematician
Alexis Fontaine des Bertins
.
Hungarian
mathematician
Jan Andrej Segner
.
French painter
Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
.
English industrialist
Benjamin Huntsman
, inventor of an important
steel
making process.
French sculptor
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne
(the Younger).
English admiral
John Byng
(shot for
dereliction of duty
in
1757
).
English politician, poet, and essayist
Soame Jenyns
.
English architect
John Wood
.
Future
shah
of
Persia
Tahmasp II
.
Died in 1704:
English
moral philosopher
John Locke
.
French mathematician Marquis
Guillaume François Antoine de L'Hôpital
.
English painter
Francis Barlow
.
French clergyman and orator Bishop
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
.
English journalist and translator of classics Sir
Roger L'Estrange
.
Dutch politician and mathematician
Johann van Waveren Hudde
.
Dutch painter
Cornelis Dusart
.
English
satirist
Thomas Brown
.
Italian composer
Giulio Cesare Arresti
.
French composer
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
.
Spanish sculptor
Luisa Roldán
.
Japanese
poet
Mukai Kyorai
.
Japanese poet
Naito Joso
.
Ottoman
sultan
Mustafa II
.
Ahmed III
succeeds him.
Events of 1704:
Jonathan Swift
publishes:
his satire
The Battle of the Books
.
Another satire,
A Tale of a Tub
.
1704 is the traditional division between the
Genroku
cultural era in Japan, sometimes known as the "Japanese renaissance", and the
Hoei
Era.
Isaac Newton
publishes his treatise on the nature of light (plus a theory of chemistry),
Opticks
.
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
is tried in
Quebec
for official misconduct, but is acquited and returns to
Detroit
, where he has a
trade monopoly
.
Mughal Emperor
Aurangazeb
:
moves the capital of
Bengal
from
Dhaka
to
Murshidabad
.
gives the city of
Jalore
to the kingdom of
Marwar
as ransom for his grandchildren, kidnapped by
Jodhpur
ruler
Durga Das Rathore
.
occupies
Anandpur
and besieges
Sikh
Guru
Gobind Singh
in the fortress of
Chamkaur
.
In
Brazil
, a road from the gold mines of
Minad Gerais
to
Rio de Janeiro
is completed, making Rio the hub of Brazil's economy. A new lode is discovered at
Sao João del Rei
.
The War of the Spanish Succession
/
Queen Anne's War
:
(February 28) French soldiers and allied Abenaki Indians attack and destroy
Deerfield
,
Massachussets
.
(July 1)
Benjamin Church
leads 500 New England troops in detroying the French village of
Minas
in
Acadia
.
(July 2)
Richard Munden
leads 80 men to storm the
Schellenberg
and finishes with 20.
(July 24)
Gibraltar
surrenders
to a combined Anglo-Dutch fleet.
(July 28) Church and his New Englanders destroy
Beaubassin
.
(August 13)
Battle of Blenheim
. The French and
Bavaria
ns are about to invade
Austria
, but
John Churchill
,
Duke of Marlborough
marches his (English-Dutch) army from The Netherlands, meets up with Prince
Eugene
of
Savoy
at
Blindheim
in Bavaria, and drives half the enemy army into the
Danube
. The other half flees back to France; French commander Comte
Camille de Tallard
is captured and the Allies occupy Bavaria.
The Great Northern War
:
(July 26) General
Lewenhaupt
defeats the Russians at
Jakobstadt
in
Latvia
.
The Swadish cavalry defeats the Saxon army at
Punitz
in
Poland
.
The Russian navy retakes
Narva
after a siege.
Swedish
king
Charles XII
engineers the deposition of Polish king
Augustus II
(Elector of
Saxony
) and the election of the palatine of
Poznan
,
Stanislaus Leszczynski
, as the new King of
Poland
. However, the Saxon army re-takes
Warsaw
.
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mathematician
John Locke