1704 in England

Events from the year 1704 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

18 May - Robert Harley becomes Secretary of State for the Northern Department.^[1]
4 August - War of the Spanish Succession: Allied English and Dutch forces under Sir George Rooke capture Gibraltar.^[1]
13 August - War of the Spanish Succession:
- At the Battle of Blenheim, An allied army under John Churchill, the Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy, including English troops defeats Franco-Bavarian army.^[1]
- Allied French/Spanish and English/Dutch fleets clash off Málaga, causing heavy casualties on both sides but with no ships being sunk.
3 November - Queen Anne's Bounty (a fund established to augment the incomes of poorer Church of England clergy) receives a Royal Charter.^[2]

Beau Nash becomes master of ceremonies at Bath, and an arbiter of fashion.^[3]
Aaron Hart becomes rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London and de facto the country's first chief rabbi.^[4]
approx. date - The first modern orrery is built by George Graham and Thomas Tompion.^[5]

Isaac Newton's work Opticks.^[1]
John Harris's Lexicon Technicum, an early encyclopedia.^[1]
Daniel Defoe begins publication of A Review of the Affairs of France, a thrice-weekly newspaper reporting on the War of the Spanish Succession.^[1]
Jonathan Swift's works A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 290. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Royal Charters, Privy Council website
^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 203–204. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ "Past Chief Rabbis". Office of the Chief Rabbi. 2009. http://www.chiefrabbi.org/ReadContent.aspx?id=1238. Retrieved 2011-12-09.
^ Carlisle, Rodney (2004). Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. p. 189. ISBN 0471244104.

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