1705

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.

Births

• September 24 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
• October 31 - Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774)
• November 23 - Thomas Birch, British historian (d. 1766)
• Dick Turpin, English highwayman (d. 1739)

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)