1705 in England
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Events from the year 1705 which occurred in the Kingdom of England.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Anne of Great Britain
[edit] Events
- 16 April - Isaac Newton knighted by Queen Anne.[1]
- May - General election results in no clear majority for either political faction in Parliament.[2]
- 25 September - Queen Anne appoints commissioners to negotiate political union with Scotland.[2]
- 15 October - War of the Spanish Succession: Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough leads an English naval force in the capture of Barcelona.[3]
[edit] Undated
- Construction begins on Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire for the Duke of Marlborough.[3] It is completed in 1724.
- The Sophia Naturalization Act 1705 is passed by Parliament, which naturalized Sophia of Hanover and the "issue of her body" as British subjects.
- Edmund Halley publicly predicts the periodicity of Halley's Comet and computes its expected path of return in 1757.[4]
[edit] Births
- 21 February - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, naval officer (died 1781)
- 11 April - William Cookworthy, chemist (died 1780)
- 23 July - Francis Blomefield, topographer (died 1752)
- 30 August - David Hartley, philosopher (died 1757)
- 28 September - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, statesman (died 1774)
- 23 November - Thomas Birch, historian (died 1766)
- Dick Turpin, highwayman (died 1739)
[edit] Deaths
- 17 January - John Ray, naturalist (born 1627)
- 12 July - Titus Oates, conspirator (born 1649)
[edit] References
- ^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 204-205. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae, Halley
