History
1705
General
Population: 651 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Colley Cibber (comedy), SIr Richard Steele (comedy), Sir John Vanbrugh (comedy), Samuel Clarke (attributes of God),
Christian Thomasius,
Music includes Handel (opera), Young J.S. Bach walks 200 miles to Lubeck to hear the Abendmusicken directed by Buxtehude
- Science: Edmund Halley predicts the return of the comet in 1758
Hudson river giant fossilized mastadon tooth found - Cotton Mather describes it as a giant human tooth
- Technology: Thomas Newcomen invents a steam engine
- Deaths: Courtesan Ninon de Lenclos, Naturalist John Ray, Artist Luca Giordano, Emperor Leopold I of Prussia/HRE, Mathematician Jacques Bernoulli
Africa
- Congo: Kongo prophetess Dona Beatrice founds new religious cult and helps end civil war
- Tunisia: Bey Husain ibn Ali founds Husseinid dynasty at Tunis - Overthrows Ottoman rule
Americas
Asia
- India: End of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
Europe
- England: English pass Aliens Act making Scotting people alien and banning trade unless they submit to union
Queen Anne knights Sir Isaac Newton
His Magesty's Theater opens in London
John Smith hanged for burglary in England, but is cut down on reprieve and eventually recovers - He is nicknamed "Half Hanged" Smith
First recorded coal mine explosion in Durham kills 30
John Vanbrugh designs Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire for Duke of Marlborough
- France: Ange-Jacques Gabriel creates the Ecole Militaire in Paris
- German States: Royal Observatory in Berlin founded
Death of Leopold I of Hapsburg line in Prussia
- Holy Roman Empire: Death of Emperor Leopold I in Austria – eldest son Joseph I rules as HRE to 1711
- Russia: Rebellion in Astrakhan against Czar Peter's westernization in Russia - Modernization met with armed resistance
- Spain: English navy takes Barcelona
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Conflict in Tunis
General
- Science: Hudson river giant fossilized tooth found - Cotton Mather describes it as a giant human tooth but later Cuvier describes it as mastodon.
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