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1704 ( MDCCIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1704th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 704th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1700s decade.
Feb 28, 2012 · On the morning of February 29, 1704, a French and First Nations army fell upon the sleeping frontier village of Deerfield, Massachusetts. The raiders had spent a fireless winter night camped across the Deerfield River, -cold, hungry and tired. Before dawn they sent out scouts, who reported that the village watch had fallen asleep.
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Rooke’s Sights on the Rock. In July 1704, the third year of what was being called the War of the Spanish Succession, British Admiral Sir George Rooke, intent on taking the city, led a combined Anglo-Dutch fleet toward Cadiz, Spain. The 54-year-old Rooke had already won a significant naval victory at the Battle of Vigo Bay in 1702 when he sank ...
Bartholomew Green (born October 12, 1666, Cambridge, Massachusetts [U.S.]—died December 28, 1732, Boston, Massachusetts) was a British American printer and journalist who published the Boston News-Letter, America’s first successful newspaper, from 1704 to 1707 and again from 1711 to 1732. Refusing to take sides in the colonists’ disputes ...
1704 (MDCCIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1704th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 704th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1700s decade. As of the start of 1704, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the ...
In the pre-dawn hours of February 29, 1704, a force of about 300 French and Native allies launched a daring raid on the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, situated in the Pocumtuck homeland. 112 Deerfield men, women, and children were captured and taken on a 300-mile forced march to Canada in harsh winter conditions.
1704 AD Newton Publishes Optick - In 1704 Isaac Newton published his work "Optick". This was the result of Newton's work on reflection, refraction, diffraction and the spectra of light. 1706 AD French Suffer Defeat on the Battlefield - The French suffered a series of defeats on the battlefield. The first at the battle of Ramillies on May 23rd ...
