1705 in England

Events from the year 1705 which occurred in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Anne of Great Britain

Events

* 16 April - Isaac Newton knighted by Queen Anne.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* May - General election results in no clear majority for either political faction in Parliament.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 204-205|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 25 September - Queen Anne appoints commissioners to negotiate political union with Scotland.
* 15 October - War of the Spanish Succession: Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough leads an English naval force in the capture of Barcelona.citebook|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8]

Undated

* Construction begins on Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire for the Duke of Marlborough. It is completed in 1724.
* The Sophia Naturalization Act 1705 is passed by Parliament, which naturalized Sophia of Hanover and the "issue of her body" as British subjects.
* Edmund Halley publicly predicts the periodicity of Halley's Comet and computes its expected path of return in 1757. ["Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae", Halley]

Births

* 21 February - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, naval officer (died 1781)
* 11 April - William Cookworthy, chemist (died 1780)
* 23 July - Francis Blomefield, topographer (died 1752)
* 30 August - David Hartley, philosopher (died 1757)
* 28 September - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, statesman (died 1774)
* 23 November - Thomas Birch, historian (died 1766)
* Dick Turpin, highwayman (died 1739)

Deaths

* 17 January - John Ray, naturalist (born 1627)
* 12 July - Titus Oates, conspirator (born 1649)

References

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