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   In the year 1704 birth of soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787)   

Feb 12   In the year 1704 birth of charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (d. 1772)   

Feb 24   Hubert Renotte, composer was born on this day in history.   

Feb 28   In the year 1704 birth of louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760)   

Apr 10   In the year 1704 birth of benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (d. 1766)   

May 07   Carl Heinrich Graun, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jun 04   Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776) was born on this day in history.   

Jun 11   Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, composer was born in the year 1704.   

Jan 21   Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83 in the year 1704.   

Feb 02   On this day in history guillaume F A de l'Hospital, French mathematician, dies at about 62   

Feb 23   Georg Muffat, French/German organist/composer, dies at 50 on this day in history.   

Feb 24   Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies in the year 1704.   

Mar 17   In the year 1704 menno baron van Coehoorn, fort builder/Coevorden/howitzer, dies at 63   

Apr 08   On this day in history death of hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624)   

Apr 10   William Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629) died in the year 1704.   

Apr 12   In the year 1704 john Hudde, 21x mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 76