1705
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1670s 1680s 1690s – 1700s – 1710s 1720s 1730s |
| Years: | 1702 1703 1704 – 1705 – 1706 1707 1708 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1705 MDCCV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2458 |
| Armenian calendar | 1154 ԹՎ ՌՃԾԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6455 |
| Bengali calendar | 1112 |
| Berber calendar | 2655 |
| English Regnal year | 3 Ann. 1 – 4 Ann. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2249 |
| Burmese calendar | 1067 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7213–7214 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4401 or 4341 — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4402 or 4342 |
| Coptic calendar | 1421–1422 |
| Discordian calendar | 2871 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1697–1698 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5465–5466 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1761–1762 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1627–1628 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4806–4807 |
| Holocene calendar | 11705 |
| Igbo calendar | 705–706 |
| Iranian calendar | 1083–1084 |
| Islamic calendar | 1116–1117 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōei 2 (宝永２年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4038 |
| Minguo calendar | 207 before ROC 民前207年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2247–2248 |
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Year 1705 (MDCCV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar. In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Sunday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–June
- March 8 – The Province of Carolina incorporates the town of Bath, making it the first incorporated town in present day North Carolina. The town becomes the political center and de facto capital of the northern portion of the Province of Carolina until Edenton is incorporated in 1722.
- April 16 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain honours Isaac Newton with a Knight Bachelor
- May – The Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar ends with the defending Confederate forces retaining control of the town.
- May 5 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor succeeds his father Leopold I.
July–December
November: Williamsburg Capitol (replica).
- November – In Williamsburg, capital of the Virginia colony in America, construction of the Capitol building is completed.
- November 5 – The Dublin Gazette publishes its first edition.
- November 15 – The Battle of Zsibó - the Austrian-Danish forces defeated the Kurucs (Hungarians)
- December – The Sophia Naturalization Act is passed by the English Parliament, which naturalizes Sophia of Hanover and the "issue of her body" as English subjects.
- December 25 – In Munich, capital of Bavaria, 1100 militiamen from the Oberland are killed during the Sendlinger Mordweihnacht, after a failed attempt to break through several gates and capture a depot to seize better weaponry; many men were slaughtered by German federal infantry and Hungarian Husars, despite their capitulation to Austrian officers.
Date unknown
- Construction begins on Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England. It is completed in 1724.
- Taichung City, Taiwan is founded as the village of Dadun.
- With the interest paid from daimyo loans, the Konoike buy a tract of ponds and swampland, turn the land into rice paddies and settle 480 households numbering perhaps 2,880 peasants on the land.
- The Shogunate confiscates the property of a merchant in Osaka "for conduct unbecoming a member of the commercial class". The government seizes 50 pairs of gold screens, 360 carpets, several mansions, 48 granaries and warehouses scattered around the country and hundreds of thousands of gold pieces.
Births
- January 14 – Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French governor of the Mascarene Islands (d. 1786)
- January 24 – Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
- February 15 – Charles-André van Loo, French painter (d. 1765)
- February 21 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781)
- February 22 – Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (d. 1735)
- March 2 – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1793)
- April 11 – William Cookworthy, English chemist (d. 1780)
- July 23 – Francis Blomefield, English topographer (d. 1752)
- August 8 – Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1750)
- August 30 – David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
- September 24 – Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
- September 28 – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (d. 1774)
- October 23 – Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757)
- October 31 – Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774)
- November 23 – Thomas Birch, British historian (d. 1766)
- date unknown – Dick Turpin, English highwayman (d. 1739)
Deaths
- January 12 – Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
- January 17 – John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
- February 5 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1653)
- May 5 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
- July 12 (or 13) – Titus Oates, English conspirator (b. 1648)
- August 16 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1654)
- October 11 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
- November 30 – Catherine of Braganza, queen of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
- date unknown – Meg Shelton, alleged witch from Lancashire