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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1705. 1705 (MDCCV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on...
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    the last time in La Vénitienne by Michel de La Barre (1705). After the death of her lover in 1705, Madame la Marquise de Florensac, with whom she had "dwelt...
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    Edward Southwell Jr. (16 June 1705 – 16 March 1755) of King's Weston, Gloucestershire, was an Anglo-Irish Whig politician who sat in the Parliament of...
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    Richard Oswald (c. 1705 – 6 November 1784) was a Scottish merchant, slave trader and diplomat. During the American Revolution, he served as an advisor...
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  • by HMS Triton (also spelt as Tryton) on 7 May 1705. She was registered as a Royal Navy ship on 1 June 1705 and commissioned shortly afterwards. She served...
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  • Louis, Duke of Brittany (25 June 1704 – 13 April 1705) was the eldest son of Louis, Duke of Burgundy and Princess Marie Adelaide of Savoy, grandson of...
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  • of Tunis (1705) was a battle between the Regency of Algiers and the Regency of Tunis. After the Algerian Army entered Tunisia on 8 July 1705, the Bey of...
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  • 1705 (formally entitled An act concerning Servants and Slaves), were a series of laws enacted by the Colony of Virginia's House of Burgesses in 1705 regulating...
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  • Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Baronet (1705–1783), of Hawkstone, Shropshire, was an English Member of Parliament. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England...
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    without a divorce. Edwards was probably born in London in about 1704 or 1705. Her mother came from the Dutch family who had drained the fens and her father...
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    Events from the year 1705 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XIV English, Scottish and Irish Monarch: Anne Governor General of New France: Philippe de Rigaud...
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  • 1690 1691 1692 1693 1694 1695 1696 1697 1698 1699 1700 1701 1702 1703 1704 1705 1706 1707 1708 1709 1710 … In science 1697 1698 1699 1700 1701 1702 1703...
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    The Bavarian uprising of 1705–1706 (German: Bayerische Volkserhebung, "Bavarian people's uprising") was a revolt against the occupation of the Electorate...
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    NGC 1705 is a peculiar lenticular galaxy and a blue compact dwarf galaxy (BCD) in the southern constellation of Pictor, positioned less than a degree to...
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    The Alien Act 1705 (3 & 4 Ann. c. 6) was a law passed by the Parliament of England in February 1705, as a response to the Parliament of Scotland's Act...
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    She married the duke at Augsburg, Bavaria, on 20 August (or September) 1705. He told only his closest friends, saying that he knew that the circumstance...
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  • Siege of Tripoli (1705) Part of the Revolutions of Tunis Belligerents Ottoman Tripolitania Ottoman Tunisia Commanders and leaders Bosnak Ismail Pasha Ibrahim...
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    Cambridge, in 1689–1690 and 1701–1702. He was knighted by Queen Anne in 1705 and spent the last three decades of his life in London, serving as Warden...
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    had been increased to 60 guns. Plymouth was rebuilt at Blackwall Yard in 1705 as a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line. She sunk later that year and was...
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  • William Elson (1673–1705), of Oving, near Chichester, Sussex, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Chichester...
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    The Bankruptcy Act 1705 (4 & 5 Ann. c. 4) was an Act of Parliament of England. Under the Act, the Lord Chancellor was given power to discharge bankrupts...
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  • The year 1705 in science and technology involved some significant events. Edmond Halley, in his Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae, states that comets seen...
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    Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (category 1705 deaths)
    Joseph Balthasar Franz Felician; Hungarian: I. Lipót; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. The second...
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    following the passing of an act of Parliament, the River Stower Navigation Act 1705 (4 & 5 Ann. c. 2). Locks were built to enable lighters to reach the town...
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    of her Body was an Act of the Parliament of England (4 & 5 Ann. c. 16) in 1705. It followed the Act of Settlement 1701, whereby Dowager Electress Sophia...
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    The 1705 English general election saw contests in 110 constituencies in England and Wales, roughly 41% of the total. The election was fiercely fought,...
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    Chagatai domains lost their independence to the Dzungar Khanate, and in 1705, the last Chagatai khan was removed from power, ending the dynasty of Chagatai...
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  • Sir John Nicholas (1624 – 9 Jan 1705) was an English courtier and Member of Parliament. He was born the eldest son of Sir Edward Nicholas of Winterbourne...
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  • Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705) was a Puritan minister, physician, and poet whose poem The Day of Doom was a bestseller in early New England. Michael...
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  • This article is about the particular significance of the year 1705 to Wales and its people. Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey...
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