• Swiss mathematician Gabriel Cramer.
• Italian mathematician Johann Castillon.
• French mathematician Alexis Fontaine des Bertins.
• Hungarian mathematician Jan Andrej Segner.
• French painter Maurice-Quentin de La Tour.
• English industrialist Benjamin Huntsman, inventor of an important steelmaking process.
• French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (the Younger).
• English admiral John Byng (shot for dereliction of duty in 1757).
• English politician, poet, and essayist Soame Jenyns.
• English architect John Wood.
• Future shah of Persia Tahmasp II.

• English moral philosopher John Locke.
• French mathematician Marquis Guillaume François Antoine de L'Hôpital.
• English painter Francis Barlow.
• French clergyman and orator Bishop Jacques Bénigne Bossuet.
• English journalist and translator of classics Sir Roger L'Estrange.
• Dutch politician and mathematician Johann van Waveren Hudde.
• Dutch painter Cornelis Dusart.
• English satirist Thomas Brown.
• Italian composer Giulio Cesare Arresti.
• French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
• Spanish sculptor Luisa Roldán.
• Japanese poet Mukai Kyorai.
• Japanese poet Naito Joso.
• Ottoman sultan Mustafa II. Ahmed III succeeds him.

• Jonathan Swift publishes:
• his satire The Battle of the Books.
• Another satire, A Tale of a Tub.
• 1704 is the traditional division between the Genroku cultural era in Japan, sometimes known as the "Japanese renaissance", and the Hoei Era.
• Isaac Newton publishes his treatise on the nature of light (plus a theory of chemistry), Opticks.
• Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac is tried in Quebec for official misconduct, but is acquited and returns to Detroit, where he has a trade monopoly.
• Mughal Emperor Aurangazeb:
• moves the capital of Bengal from Dhaka to Murshidabad.
• gives the city of Jalore to the kingdom of Marwar as ransom for his grandchildren, kidnapped by Jodhpur ruler Durga Das Rathore.
• occupies Anandpur and besieges Sikh Guru Gobind Singh in the fortress of Chamkaur.
• In Brazil, a road from the gold mines of Minad Gerais to Rio de Janeiro is completed, making Rio the hub of Brazil's economy. A new lode is discovered at Sao João del Rei.
• The War of the Spanish Succession/Queen Anne's War:
• (February 28) French soldiers and allied Abenaki Indians attack and destroy Deerfield, Massachussets.
• (July 1) Benjamin Church leads 500 New England troops in detroying the French village of Minas in Acadia.
• (July 2) Richard Munden leads 80 men to storm the Schellenberg and finishes with 20.
• (July 24) Gibraltar surrenders to a combined Anglo-Dutch fleet.
• (July 28) Church and his New Englanders destroy Beaubassin.
• (August 13) Battle of Blenheim. The French and Bavarians are about to invade Austria, but John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough marches his (English-Dutch) army from The Netherlands, meets up with Prince Eugene of Savoy at Blindheim in Bavaria, and drives half the enemy army into the Danube. The other half flees back to France; French commander Comte Camille de Tallard is captured and the Allies occupy Bavaria.
• The Great Northern War:
• (July 26) General Lewenhaupt defeats the Russians at Jakobstadt in Latvia.
• The Swadish cavalry defeats the Saxon army at Punitz in Poland.
• The Russian navy retakes Narva after a siege.
• Swedish king Charles XII engineers the deposition of Polish king Augustus II (Elector of Saxony) and the election of the palatine of Poznan, Stanislaus Leszczynski, as the new King of Poland. However, the Saxon army re-takes Warsaw.

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