March 14 –
Queen Anne gives
royal assent to the
Alien Act 1705, setting a deadline of December 25, 1705, for Scotland's parliament to authorize negotiations for the union with England to create the
Kingdom of Great Britain and, if Scotland fails to do so, to declare all Scots in England to be arrested and detained as illegal aliens until union is achieved.[2]
March 31 (March 20 O.S.) – The
Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar ends as a fleet of warships from the navies of England, Portugal and the Netherlands, commanded by English Admiral
John Leake, arrives at the Bay of Gibraltar with 35 warships and English and Portuguese troops. In the battle that follows, five of the French Navy's ships are sunk and Admiral Desjean is seriously wounded, forcing the French and Spanish to retreat.
April 9 –
The Queen's Theatre opens in
Westminster to serve as an
opera house, premiering with Gli amori di ergasto ("The Loves of Ergasto"), an Italian language opera by German composer
Jakob "Giacomo" Greber. It remains in operation for more than 300 years, becoming Her Majesty's Theatre.
June 6 – Voting ends in the
election of the English House of Commons, with the Tories retaining their majority but losing 38 seats, while the Whigs gain 49 seats. The balance in the 513 seats is 260 for the Tories, 233 for the Whigs, 20 for other candidates.
July 11 –
José de Grimaldo, the Marquis of Grimaldo, becomes the head of government of Spain after being appointed by
King Philip V as the Secretary of the Universal Bureau
July 14 – The newly-elected
English House of Commons, last to serve before the union with Scotland that produces Great Britain, is opened by Queen Anne.
July 18 –
War of the Spanish Succession: At the
Battle of Elixheim, near the city of
Tienen (in modern-day Belgium), is fought, as an exhausted group of soldiers under the command of England's
Duke of Marlborough kills 3,000 French troops under the command of the
Duc de Valleroy, and forces the retreat of the others, breaking the "Lines of Brabant". Because his soldiers had marched all night and then fought the battle over a full day, Marlborough is unable to send them in pursuit of Villeroy's troops.
July 20 – The planet
MercurytransitsJupiter, as seen by astronomers from Earth. The event happens again on October 4,
1708, but will not be seen again from Earth until October 27,
2088
September 20 –
Francis II Rákóczi is proclaimed as the ruler of Hungary by independence activists in
Szécsény who are opposed to the rule of the Habsburg successor to Leopold I, the Holy Roman emperor Joseph I.
December 25 – In
Munich, capital of
Bavaria, 1,100 militiamen from the
Oberland are killed during the
Sendlinger Mordweihnacht, after a failed attempt to break through several gates and capture a depot to seize better weaponry; many men were slaughtered by German federal infantry and Hungarian Hussars, despite their capitulation to
Austrian officers.
With the interest paid from daimyō loans, the Konoike buy a tract of ponds and swampland, turn the land into rice paddies, and settle 480 households numbering perhaps 2,880 peasants on the land.
The
Shogunate confiscates the property of a merchant in
Osaka "for conduct unbecoming a member of the commercial class". The government seizes 50 pairs of gold screens, 360 carpets, several mansions, 48 granaries and warehouses scattered around the country, and hundreds of thousands of gold pieces.
March 14 –
Queen Anne gives
royal assent to the
Alien Act 1705, setting a deadline of December 25, 1705, for Scotland's parliament to authorize negotiations for the union with England to create the
Kingdom of Great Britain and, if Scotland fails to do so, to declare all Scots in England to be arrested and detained as illegal aliens until union is achieved.[2]
March 31 (March 20 O.S.) – The
Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar ends as a fleet of warships from the navies of England, Portugal and the Netherlands, commanded by English Admiral
John Leake, arrives at the Bay of Gibraltar with 35 warships and English and Portuguese troops. In the battle that follows, five of the French Navy's ships are sunk and Admiral Desjean is seriously wounded, forcing the French and Spanish to retreat.
April 9 –
The Queen's Theatre opens in
Westminster to serve as an
opera house, premiering with Gli amori di ergasto ("The Loves of Ergasto"), an Italian language opera by German composer
Jakob "Giacomo" Greber. It remains in operation for more than 300 years, becoming Her Majesty's Theatre.
June 6 – Voting ends in the
election of the English House of Commons, with the Tories retaining their majority but losing 38 seats, while the Whigs gain 49 seats. The balance in the 513 seats is 260 for the Tories, 233 for the Whigs, 20 for other candidates.
July 11 –
José de Grimaldo, the Marquis of Grimaldo, becomes the head of government of Spain after being appointed by
King Philip V as the Secretary of the Universal Bureau
July 14 – The newly-elected
English House of Commons, last to serve before the union with Scotland that produces Great Britain, is opened by Queen Anne.
July 18 –
War of the Spanish Succession: At the
Battle of Elixheim, near the city of
Tienen (in modern-day Belgium), is fought, as an exhausted group of soldiers under the command of England's
Duke of Marlborough kills 3,000 French troops under the command of the
Duc de Valleroy, and forces the retreat of the others, breaking the "Lines of Brabant". Because his soldiers had marched all night and then fought the battle over a full day, Marlborough is unable to send them in pursuit of Villeroy's troops.
July 20 – The planet
MercurytransitsJupiter, as seen by astronomers from Earth. The event happens again on October 4,
1708, but will not be seen again from Earth until October 27,
2088
September 20 –
Francis II Rákóczi is proclaimed as the ruler of Hungary by independence activists in
Szécsény who are opposed to the rule of the Habsburg successor to Leopold I, the Holy Roman emperor Joseph I.
December 25 – In
Munich, capital of
Bavaria, 1,100 militiamen from the
Oberland are killed during the
Sendlinger Mordweihnacht, after a failed attempt to break through several gates and capture a depot to seize better weaponry; many men were slaughtered by German federal infantry and Hungarian Hussars, despite their capitulation to
Austrian officers.
With the interest paid from daimyō loans, the Konoike buy a tract of ponds and swampland, turn the land into rice paddies, and settle 480 households numbering perhaps 2,880 peasants on the land.
The
Shogunate confiscates the property of a merchant in
Osaka "for conduct unbecoming a member of the commercial class". The government seizes 50 pairs of gold screens, 360 carpets, several mansions, 48 granaries and warehouses scattered around the country, and hundreds of thousands of gold pieces.