Page 2: Historical Events In 1704

Aug 13   Lorenzo Fago, composer.   

Aug 24   Sea battle at Malaga   

Aug 25   Battle at Malaga: French vs English and Dutch fleet.   

Sep 28   Maryland allows divorce if wife mispleases clergyman/preacher.   

Oct 01   Cornelis Dusart, painter/engraver, dies at 44.   

Oct 02   Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer   

Oct 17   Willem Bentinck, orangist   

Oct 28   John Locke, English philosopher (2 treatises of govt), dies at 72   

Nov 10   Carlo Zuccari, composer.   

Nov 17   Salomeja Neris, [S Bacinskaite-Buciene], Latvian poet.   

Nov 28   Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies).   

Dec 08   Anton de Haen, medical expert (Ratio Medendi).   

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Jan 01   Soame jenyns: English writer    

Feb 12   Charles pinot duclos: French writer   

Feb 24   Hubert renotte: Composer   

Feb 28   Louis godin: French astronomer   

Apr 10   Benjamin heath: English classical scholar    

May 07   Carl heinrich graun: Composer   

Jun 04   Benjamin huntsman: English inventor and manufacturer   

Jun 11   Jose antonio carlos de seixas: Composer   

Jan 21   Willem b schepers: Dutch merchant/ship owner,   

Feb 02   Guillaume f a de l'hospital: French mathematician,    

Feb 23   Georg muffat: French/german organist/composer,   

Feb 24   Marc-antoine charpentier: French composer (church music),    

Mar 17   Menno baron van coehoorn: Fort builder/coevorden/howitzer,   

Apr 08   Hiob ludolf: German orientalist (b. 1624)   

Apr 10   William egon of fürstenberg: Bishop of strassburg (b. 1629)   

Apr 12   John hudde: 21x mayor of amsterdam,