1705
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Events
- Construction begins on Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England. It is completed in 1724
- The Sophia Naturalization Act 1705 is passed by the British Parliament, which naturalized Sophia of Hanover and the "issue of her body" as British subjects.
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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 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 Reichsgraf von Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757)
- October 31 - Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774)
- November 23 - Thomas Birch, British historian (d. 1766)
- Dick Turpin, English highwayman (d. 1739)
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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)
- 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)
- Titus Oates, English conspirator (b. 1648)af:1705
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