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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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  • 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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  • Events from the year 1705 in England. Monarch – Anne 16 April – Isaac Newton knighted by Queen Anne. May General election results in no clear majority...
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  • Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Baronet (1705–83), of Hawkstone, Shropshire, was an English Member of Parliament. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Events from the year 1705 in Sweden Monarch – Charles XII 16 July - Battle of Gemauerthof 21 July - Battle of Warsaw (1705) 18 November – Pace between...
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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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    The Alien Act was a law passed by the Parliament of England in February 1705, as a response to the Parliament of Scotland's Act of Security of 1704, which...
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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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    Hanover and her Protestant descendants to inherit the British throne. In 1705, George married Princess Caroline of Ansbach, with whom he had eight children...
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    Capell, 1st Earl of Essex. His second marriage to Lady Elizabeth Howard (died 1705) produced his son and heir Josceline (1644-1670). Despite his imprisonment...
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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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    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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    III, emperor 1637–1657 (→Family Tree) Leopold I, emperor 1658–1705 Joseph I, emperor 1705–1711 Charles VI, emperor 1711–1740 Maria Theresa, Habsburg heiress...
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    Sophia was a foreign citizen, Parliament passed the Sophia Naturalization Act 1705 to make her and her descendants English and therefore eligible for the throne...
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    corsair activity tended to decline, as, for example, during the periods 1660–1705 and 1760–1792. Like Algiers and Tripoli, Tunis needed to import most of the...
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    Tunis – North African monarchy (1705–1881) Republic of Salé – 17th-century city-state in North Africa Tunisian navy (1705–1881) – navy of the Vilayet 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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  • Behringhen taken by HMS Triton on 2 May 1705. She was purchased on 19 May 1705. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1705 for service in Ireland. She was...
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  • The great Oulu fire of 1705 was a conflagration that destroyed the parts of the city of Oulu, Finland. It consists of two fires in total, the first of...
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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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    Calenberg and Lüneburg were then shared between George's sons until united in 1705 under his grandson, also called George, who subsequently became George I...
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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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    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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  • guidance of Master Shipwright Robert Shortiss. She was launched on 10 March 1705. Her dimensions were a gundeck of 108 feet 0 inches (32.92 metres) with a...
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