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by
Gorgonzola
Thu Mar 15 2001 at 3:12:31
Born in 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
.
Died in 1705:
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
.
Events of 1705:
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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Thomas Birch
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland
Ito Jinsai
Mughal Empire
Lay Abbot
1711
Charles II
Catalonia
Apple displays
Halley's Comet
Edmond Halley
Gibraltar
18th century
Peter the Great
Catalan
Jakob Bernoulli
abbess
Holy Roman Empire
Sikh
War of the Spanish Succession