This page relates to the year 1705 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

• September 17th: Philippe de Rigaud of Vaudreuil is general governor of the News-France (fine in 1725).

• the code of Virginia envisages the mutilation of the revolted slaves.
• a law of Virginia envisages to provide to the white servants whose contract ends ten bushels of cereals, thirty shillings and a weapon, to the women fifteen bushels of cereals and forty shillings. The white servants become free see themselves allotting twenty hectares of grounds.
• Gold rush with the Brazil: 30  000 with 50  000 prospectors, made of the Brazil or the Portugal, work the mines of the Minas Gerais about 1705 - 1710. Brazil quickly becomes the first gold producer of the world.
• the Scottish sailor Alexandre Selkirk is unloaded on Más has Tierra, future Île Robinson Crusoe, with broad of the Chile.

Africa

• July 13rd: The Othoman capacity is rejected with Tunis and Hussein ibn Ali founds the dynasty of the Husseinites (fine in 1957).

Asia

• May 3rd, India: beginning of the seat of Anadpur.
• May 8th, India: Battle of Mudatsar.
• December 4th, India: End of the seat of Anadpur.

• Tibet : The regent Sangyé Gyatso is assassinated by Khan of the Mongolian Empire Lhazang Khan, chief of the tribe of Qoshot. To finish the construction of the Palate of the Potala, Sangyé Gyatso respecting the wishes of the 5th Dalaï Lama maintained the secrecy on its death during 12 years, until in 1697, when it sent its minister Shabdrung Ngawang Shonu to the court Mandchou to inform the Emperor Kangxi of died of 5th and discovered 6th Dalaï Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso old then 14 years, which went up on the throne. Its eccentric personality, the abandonment of its monastic vows and the love of poetry and the women will attract to him the sympathy of the people Tibetan but the lightnings of the Mongolian and the Qing.
• China: Expulsion of the papal legate (future cardinal of Tournon) by Kangxi after the publication of the absolute judgment of accommodations Jesuits (tolerance of the worship of the ancestors, identification of Tien or Chang-Ti, concept confucéenne, with the god of the Christians).

Europe

• May 5th:

• Provision léopoldine regulating the succession of the Habsbourg.
• Died of Léopold I {{er}}, Germanic Roman Emperor (beginning in 1658) and beginning of the reign of Joseph Ier, emperor of the Romans, king of Bohemia and Hungary (fine in 1711).
• July 16th: Victoire of the Sweden on the Russians with Gemauerthof in Courlande.
• August 28th: Lüneburg is attached to the Hanover.
• September 20th: With died of the Léopold emperor, certain noble plan to put Ferenc II Rakóczi on the throne of Hungary, but a diet joins together with Szécsény moves back in front of a complete rupture with the Habsbourg and is satisfied to give him the title of prince de Hongrie.
• November: Treaty of alliance polono-Swedish against the Russia.
• December 8th: Patkul, “police chief of the tsar”, is stopped with Vienna. He will be delivered to the Swede then condemned and carried out in 1707.

• Second War of North: Auguste II, taken refuge in Saxony, is attacked in its electorate by Charles XII of Sweden. Charles XII of Sweden combat in Lithuania the Russian army ordered by the Scot Ogilvie (1705 - 1706).
• Great Britain: Vote of a law on the foreigners ( Alien Act ), which threatens to prohibit any trade between the Scotland and the England and to treat the Scot as foreigners if the negotiations on the union do not open.

War of succession of Spain

• February 7th: The Franco-Spanish forces besiege Gibraltar.
• the English break, for the second time, the seat of Gibraltar imposed by the Spanish French and .
• June 10th: Villars and Maximilien-Emmanuel of Bavaria takes Huyet and occupies Liege. They besiege the castle but must move back in front of Marlborough (July).
• June 20th: The Catalonia sign a treaty with the England and Genoa against the king of Spain.
• August 16th: Vendôme beats the Prince Eugene with the battles of Cassano, in Lombardy. The operations of 1705 give a strategic impression of blocking. Louis XIV makes with the autumn secret peace overtures in Holland on the basis of dismemberment of the Spanish possessions (Philippe V of Spain remainder to Madrid).
• August 22nd: Sit of Barcelona.
• October 14th: The English fleet occupies Barcelona after six weeks of seat and to “Charles III” of Habsbourg deliver it.

• Revolt of the Aragonese peasants.

France

• January: Basville and the troops of Berwick organize repression against the Camisards of the the Cevennes after the departure of Villars (one speaks about 12  000 victims).
• May: Intense cold wave in France. The vines freeze between the Seine and the Loire.
• Be: heat wave in France.

Russia

• Rising of Astrakhan (1705 - 1706).
• Revolt of the Tatars of Kazan' and of the Bachkir S of the the Ural against the Russian civils servant (1705 - 1711).

• obligatory Conscription.
• the sale of salt and the tobacco becomes state monopoly.
• the orthodoxe missionaries reach the Kamtchatka.

Religion

• July 16th: The bubble Vineam Domini condemns the Jansénisme by prohibiting the distinction of the right and the expressed fact, either openly, or tacitly, in the form of respectful silence.
• Censure of the theses Jansenists of the father Pasquier Quesnel.
• Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort founds the congregation of the Company of Marie (montfortains).
• China: The pope dispatches in China monseigneur Charles de Tournon, with the order to prohibit to the missionaries any tolerance “rites Chinese”.

Art & culture

See also: 1705 with the theater

• Mercurius Hungaricus , first Hungarian newspaper published by prince Rakóczi.
• Bernard de Mandeville publishes his Fable of the bees .
• the Rumanian author Dimitrie Cantemir publishes hieroglyphic Histoire .
• Idoménée , tragedy of Crébillon father.

• January 8th: first with Hamburg of the first opera of Georg Friedrich Haendel: Almira .

• January 15th: Alcine , tragedy lyric of André Campra is presented to Paris.
• February 25th: Nero , opera of Haendel.
• : first with Hamburg of Octavia , opera of Reinhard Keiser.

• Estro armonico , concerto of Vivaldi.

• Nicholas Hawksmoor conceives the Palais of Blenheim for the duke of Marlborough.
• Beginning of the construction of the Soubise hotel with Paris by the architect Delamair for François de Rohan, prince de Soubise. G. Boffrand directs the decoration of from there 1732 to 1740.

Science & technology

• April 16th: Isaac Newton is anobli by the queen Anne of England.

• the Astronome English Edmund Halley publishes the trajectory of the comets and states that the comet of 1682 will pass by again in 1758.
• Thomas Newcomen and Thomas Savery develops the first large exploitable Steam engine by the Industrie.

Economy & company

• the Dutchmen embark in Gold Coast more 30  500 kg of ivory of 1705 with 1717.
• the ambassador of France Michel Amelot de Gournay reorganizes the Spanish army on the French model.
• the French Army counts 400  000 men. The budget of the State goes up to 1600 tons of equivalent money (1705-1710).
• Creation of agent of bank, changes, trade and finances in France.
• the count Gundaker Starhemberg, president of the room of the accounts creates the Bank of the town of Vienna ( Wiener Stadtbank ) which enables him to mobilize the credit to finance the war.
• Creation of the first insurance company on the life in England.

Births in 1705

• January 24th: Farinelli (Carlo Broschi), Italian singer († 1782).
• February 12th: Johann Elias Bach, German musician, († 1755).
• February 15th: Charles André says Carle Van Loo or Vanloo, painter French († 1765).
• March 10th: Peter Artedi, Naturalist Swedish († 1735).
• March 30th: August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof (or Roesel), Artist and German Naturalist († 1759).
• October 31st: Clement XIV (Giovanni Ganganelli), pope of 1769 to 1774 († 1774).
• November 4th: Antonio Domenico, Italian Musician († 1741).

Death in 1705

• January 12th: Luca Giordano, Italian painter (° 1634)
• January 17th: John Ray, naturalist English, founder in England of natural classification (° 1627).
• February 5th: Philipp Jakob Spener (1635 -1705), theologist protesting Alsatian founder of the Piétisme, movement Lutheran which insisted on the individual religious experiment.
• May 5th: Léopold I {{er}}, German emperor (° 1640)
• August 16th: Jacques Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (° 1654)
• September 8th: Louis Tronchin, Pasteur calvinist (1629-1705), in favor of the doctrines of Amyraut.
• October 17th: Ninon de Lenclos, French courtesan (° 1620).
• December 15th: Jan Vermeer, known as Vermeer the Young person, Dutch painter (Haarlem, 1656 -1705).

Easter Day

• April 12th: Sunday of Easter.
• For other religious holidays, to see Comput.

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