1704
Events Building of the Student's Monument in Aiud, Romania. February 29 - Quebecois and Native Americans sack Deerfield, Massachusetts August 13 - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim The Sultanate of Brunei cedes its north-east territories to the Sultanate of Sulu. The lower three counties of the Province of Pennsylvania become the colony of Delaware. Earthquake strikes Gondar in Ethiopia
BirthsJune 22 - John Taylor - English Classical Scholar (died 1766)
Deaths February 2 - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (born 1661) February 23 - Georg Muffat, German composer (born 1645) February 24 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (probably born 1643) May 3 - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Austrian composer (born 1644) June 18 - Tom Brown, English satirist (born 1662) October 28 - John Locke, philosopher (born 1632)
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