Events

• Construction begins on Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England. It is completed in 1724
• The Sophia Naturalization Act 1705 is passed by the British Parliament, which naturalized Sophia of Hanover and the "issue of her body" as British subjects.

January

February

March

• March 8 - The Province of Carolina incorporates the town of Bath, making it the first incorporated town in present day North Carolina. The town becomes the political center and de facto capital of the northern portion of the Province of Carolina until Edenton is incorporated in 1722.

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June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Births

• January 14 - Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French governor of the Mascarene Islands (d. 1786)
• January 24 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
• February 15 - Charles-André van Loo, French painter (d. 1765)
• February 21 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781)
• February 22 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (d. 1735)
• March 2 - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1793)
• April 11 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (d. 1780)
• July 23 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (d. 1752)
• August 30 - David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
• September 24 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
• September 28 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (d. 1774)
• October 23 - Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf von Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757)
• October 31 - Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774)
• November 23 - Thomas Birch, British historian (d. 1766)
• Dick Turpin, English highwayman (d. 1739)

Deaths

• January 12 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
• January 17 - John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
• February 5 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1653)
• May 5 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
• August 16 - Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1654)
• October 11 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
• November 30 - Catherine of Braganza, queen of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
• Titus Oates, English conspirator (b. 1648)

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