Editing 1704 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 7]] &ndash; Partial [[solar eclipse]], [[Solar Saros 146]], is visible in [[Antarctica]].
* [[January 25]]&ndash;[[January 26|26]] &ndash; [[Apalachee massacre]]: English colonists from the [[Province of Carolina]], and their native allies, stage a series of brutal raids against a largely pacific population of [[Apalachee]], in [[Spanish Florida]].
* [[February 28]] &ndash; Establishment of the first school open to African-Americans in [[New York City]] by Frenchman [[Elias Neau]].
* [[February 29]] &ndash; [[Raid on Deerfield]] ([[Queen Anne's War]]): [[French Canadian]]s and [[Indigenous peoples in the United States|Native Americans]] sack [[Deerfield, Massachusetts]], killing over 50 English colonists.
* [[February]] &ndash; In America, [[Mardi Gras]] is celebrated with the ''[[Mardi Gras in Mobile|Masque de la Mobile]]'' in the capital of [[Louisiana (New France)]], [[Mobile, Alabama]].
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|Prince Karl of Habsburg]], brother of Joseph&nbsp;I, the Holy Roman Emperor and a pretender to the throne of [[Spain]], arrives in Portugal on the English warship [[HMS Royal Katherine|HMS ''Royal Katherine'']] as part of [[George Rooke]]'s English fleet sailing into [[Lisbon]].
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: The English Navy ships HMS ''Kent'', HMS ''Bedford'' and HMS ''Antelope'' intercept two newly-built Spanish warships, ''Porta Coeli'' and ''Santa Teresa'' off of the coast of [[Cape Spartel]], as the Spaniards attempt to sail into the [[Strait of Gibraltar]].  The two Spanish ships are captured after a seven-hour battle and taken toward [[Lisbon]], but the ''Santa Teresa'' sinks along the way.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Battle of Biskupice]]: The [[Hungarians]] ([[Kuruc]]s) win a costly victory over the [[Danes]].
* [[April 24]] &ndash; The first regular [[newspaper]] in the [[Thirteen Colonies]] of [[British North America]], ''[[The Boston News-Letter]]'', is published.
* [[May 19]]&ndash;[[May 23|23]] &ndash; Vigorous [[Strombolian eruption|Strombolian]] activity from [[Mount Vesuvius]], Italy is recorded.
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Battle of Smolenice]]: [[Kuruc]] rebels defeat the Austrian army and its allies.
* [[June 2]] &ndash; Annular [[solar eclipse]] is visible from a region of the [[Southern Ocean]] between [[South Africa]] and [[Antarctica]].
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Battle of Koroncó]]: Austrians and their allies from Denmark, [[Prussia]], [[Croatia]], Germany and [[Vojvodina]] defeat the Kurucs.
* [[June 17]] &ndash; Total [[lunar eclipse]] takes place, Saros series 125.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July]] &ndash; [[Daniel Defoe]] documents the [[Great Storm of 1703]] in England, with eyewitness testimonies, in ''[[The Storm (Daniel Defoe)|The Storm]]''.
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Great Northern War]] &ndash; King [[Charles XII of Sweden]] forces the election of his ally [[Stanisław Leszczyński]] as [[King of Poland]], in place of [[Augustus II the Strong]].
* [[August 3]] (July 23 [[Old Style]]) &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]] &ndash; [[Capture of Gibraltar|Gibraltar is captured]] from Spain, by [[Kingdom of England|English]] and [[Netherlands|Dutch]] forces under [[Sir]] [[George Rooke]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1704 |title=Historical Events for Year 1704 &#124; OnThisDay.com |website=Historyorb.com |access-date=2018-04-02}}</ref> 
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Battle of Orford Ness (1704)|Battle of Orford Ness]].
* [[August 13]] (August 2 OS) &ndash; War of the Spanish Succession &ndash; [[Battle of Blenheim]]: Allied troops under [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough]] and [[Prince Eugene of Savoy]] defeat the [[France|Franco]]-[[Bavaria]]n army.
* [[August 24]] (August 13 OS) &ndash; War of the Spanish Succession &ndash; The French and Anglo-Dutch fleets [[Battle of Málaga (1704)|clash off Málaga]], causing heavy casualties on both sides, but without sinking any ships.
* [[September 8]] &ndash; War of the Spanish Succession &ndash; The [[Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar]] by French and Spanish troops begins.
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: The siege of the French-held German town of [[Landau]], by Holy Roman Empire troops under the command of [[Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden|Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden-Baden]] begins and lasts for more than ten weeks before the French surrender on [[November 23]].  During the siege, the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I visits the area in a newly-developed vehicle, a [[convertible]] horse-drawn carriage that has a removable roof.  The style of vehicle itself is later called a "[[Landau (carriage)|landau]]".
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Damat Hasan Pasha]], [[List of Ottoman Grand Viziers|Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]], is removed from office by Ottoman Sultan [[Ahmed III]], and replaced by Kalaylikoz Ahmed Pasha.

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 24]] &ndash; A peace treaty is signed between Prince [[Francis II Rákóczi|Ferenc Rákóczi]] of [[Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)|Transylvania]], and representatives of the Holy Roman Emperor, [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor|Leopold I]] at Schemnitz (now the Slovakian town of [[Banská Štiavnica]]) 
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Great Northern War]]: The [[Battle of Poniec]] takes place as King Charles XII leads Swedish troops in pursuit of the Saxon Army commanded by General [[Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg|Johann von der Schulenburg]].  The Swedes are forced to retreat despite surrounding the Saxons, and Schulenburg's troops escape.
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar]]: A Spanish Bourbon special forces battalion, guided by Simon Susarte, scales the steepest side of the [[Rock of Gibraltar]] in an attempt to surprise the British defenders, and kills the English sentries who have been manning the lookout.  The attack is foiled the next day when a drummer boy, who was bringing food to the sentries, spots the invaders and raises the alarm.
* [[November 26]] &ndash; The inauguration of the newly built [[Kastelskirken]] takes place in [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]].
* [[November 27]] &ndash; Annular [[solar eclipse]] is visible through [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], eastern [[China]], [[Myanmar]] and northern [[Philippines]].
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Battle of Chamkaur]]: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.
* [[December 25]] &ndash; The fall of the [[meteorite]] of [[Barcelona]] is seen and heard over distances up to hundreds of kilometres and is interpreted as a divine sign.

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Great Northern War]]: Russian troops under Tsar [[Peter the Great]] capture [[Tartu]] and [[Narva]].
* 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]].
* An [[earthquake]] strikes [[Gondar]], [[Ethiopia]].
* [[Tenerife]]'s earliest recorded volcanic eruption takes place from three fissure emission centres: Siete Fuentes, [[Fasnia]] and [[Arafo]].
* ''[[A Tale of a Tub]]'', the first major satire by [[Jonathan Swift]] (written 1694–1697), is published in London, running through three editions this year.
* [[Isaac Newton]] publishes his ''[[Opticks]]''. He also predicts that the world will end in 2060.
* The Students' Monument is built in [[Aiud]], [[Romania]].
* [[Chinese Rites controversy]]: Rome decrees that Roman ceremonial practice in [[Latin]] (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions.
* [[Nerchinsky Zavod]] is founded in the [[Nerchinsko-Zavodsky District]] of [[Zabaykalsky Krai]], [[Russia]] by Greek mining engineers.
* [[Thomas Darley]] purchases the bay [[Arabian horse]] [[Darley Arabian]] in [[Aleppo]], [[Syria]], and ships him to stud in England, where he becomes the most important [[foundation bloodstock|foundation sire]] of all modern [[thoroughbred]] [[horse racing|racing]] bloodstock.
* Giancomo Miraldi observes [[Martian polar ice caps]] as "white spots" at the Martian poles.
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