1705 in England
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Events from the year 1705 which occurred in the Kingdom of England.
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[edit] Events
- Construction begins on Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire. 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.[1]
[edit] Births
- 21 February - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, naval officer (d. 1781)
- 11 April - William Cookworthy, chemist (d. 1780)
- 23 July - Francis Blomefield, topographer (d. 1752)
- 30 August - David Hartley, philosopher (d. 1757)
- 28 September - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, statesman (d. 1774)
- 23 November - Thomas Birch, historian (d. 1766)
- Dick Turpin, highwayman (d. 1739)
[edit] Deaths
- 17 January - John Ray, naturalist (b. 1627)
- Titus Oates, conspirator (b. 1649)
[edit] References
- ^ Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae, Halley
