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Events from the year 1705 in England.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 16 April – Isaac Newton knighted by Queen Anne.[1]
- May
- General election results in no clear majority for either political faction in Parliament.[2]
- The Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar ends with the defending Confederate forces (including the English) retaining control of the town.
- 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]
- 30 October – John Vanbrugh's play The Confederacy (adapted from the French) is first performed at his new London playhouse, The Queen's Theatre in Haymarket.[4][5]
- 27 December – John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake (adapted from the French) is first performed at his new London playhouse, The Queen's Theatre in Haymarket.[4][5]
- December – the Sophia Naturalization Act is passed by Parliament, which naturalizes Sophia of Hanover (next in succession to the British throne) and the "issue of her body" as British subjects.
Undated
[edit]- Construction begins on Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire designed by John Vanbrugh for the Duke of Marlborough.[3] It is completed in 1724.
- Edmond Halley publicly predicts the periodicity of Halley's Comet and computes its expected path of return in 1757.[6]
Births
[edit]- 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)
- 21 September (bapt.) – Dick Turpin, thief and highwayman (hanged 1739)
- 28 September – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, statesman (died 1774)
- 23 November – Thomas Birch, historian (died 1766)
- Undated – Bay Bolton, racehorse (died 1736)
Deaths
[edit]- 17 January – John Ray, naturalist (born 1627)
- 6 April – Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Marske, landowner and Member of Parliament (born 1676)
- 12 July – Titus Oates, conspirator (born 1649)
References
[edit]- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 204–205. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ a b "Who was John Vanbrugh?". Britain Unlimited. Archived from the original on 14 December 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
- ^ a b McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama (2nd ed.).
- ^ Halley, Edmond. Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae.
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