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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Siege of Tripoli (1705) Part of the Revolutions of Tunis Belligerents Ottoman Tripolitania Ottoman Tunisia Commanders and leaders Bosnak Ismail Pasha Ibrahim...

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...

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...

Hanover and her Protestant descendants to inherit the British throne. In 1705, George married Princess Caroline of Ansbach, with whom he had eight children...

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...

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...

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...

The Bavarian uprising of 1705–1706 (German: Bayerische Volkserhebung, "Bavarian people's uprising") was a revolt against the occupation of the Electorate...

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...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1705. April/May – Richard Steele, having left the army, marries a wealthy widow...

Tibetan nationhood for Tibetans both in Tibet and in exile. From 1642 until 1705 and from 1750 to the 1950s, the Dalai Lamas or their regents headed the Tibetan...

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...

Thomas Birch (23 November 1705 – 9 January 1766) was an English historian. He was the son of Joseph Birch, a coffee-mill maker, and was born at Clerkenwell...

The 1705 English general election saw contests in 110 constituencies in England and Wales, roughly 41% of the total. The election was fiercely fought,...

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...

was defeated in August, with a land siege being abandoned in April 1705. The 1705 Pact of Genoa between Catalan representatives and Britain opened a second...

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...

Ferdinand II (1619–1637) Ferdinand III (1637–1657) Leopold I (1657–1705) Joseph I (1705–1711) Charles VI (1711–1740) Maria Theresa (1740–1780) (German: Maria...

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...

Tsunanori (1665–1705) 4th daimyō of Kishū and married Tsuruhime, daughter of 5th shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi Jirokichi Tokugawa Yorimoto (1680–1705) 5th daimyō...

Saint Philip (1705–1711) Pierre Le Gros Saint Thomas (1705–1711) Saint Bartholomew (c. 1705–1712) Angelo de' Rossi Saint James the Lesser (1705–1711) Camillo...

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...