What Happened In History Year 1705

Historical Events for the Year 1705

• 15th November » Battle of Zsibó: Austrians Austrian-Danes Danish victory over the Kurucs (Hungarian people Hungarians).

Famous Birthdays in 1705

• 14th January » Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French sailor, explorer, and politician (d. 1786)
• 24th January » Farinelli, Italian singer (d. 1782)
• 15th February » Charles-André van Loo, French painter (d. 1765)
• 20th February » Nicolas Chédeville, French Musette de cour or musette player and composer (d. 1782)
• 21st February » Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (d. 1781)
• 22nd February » Peter Artedi, Swedish ichthyologist and zoologist (d. 1735)
• 2nd March » William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1793)
• 12th April » William Cookworthy, English minister and pharmacist (d. 1780)
• 23rd July » Francis Blomefield, English historian (d. 1752)
• 7th September » Matthäus Günther, German painter (d. 1788)
• 24th September » Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
• 28th September » Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (d. 1774)
• 28th September » Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer (d. 1772)
• 23rd October » Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757)
• 31st October » Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774)
• 5th November » Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French violinist and composer (d. 1770)
• 23rd November » Thomas Birch, English historian and author (d. 1766)
• 29th November » Michael Christian Festing, English violinist and composer (d. 1752)

Famous Deaths in History for 1705

• 3rd January » Luca Giordano, Italian painter (b. 1634)
• 17th January » John Ray, English historian (b. 1627)
• 5th February » Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)
• 5th May » Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
• 16th August » Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1654)
• 11th October » Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
• 31st December » Catherine of Braganza (b. 1638)

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