1704
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1704 (MDCCIV) is the 1704th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 704th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1700s decade.
In the Swedish calendar it was a leap year starting on Friday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
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Art and culture
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Literature
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Fiction
- The Battle of the Books by Swift
- A Tale of a Tub by Swift
- Arabian Nights (first published in Europe from 1704 to 1715 in French by Antoine Galland, and translated immediately from this edition into English and German).
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Non-fiction
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Visual art
- The Moloch Idol, with 7 chambers or chapels, a German illustration of the Moloch
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Music
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Architecture
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Births
- June 24 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771)
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Deaths
- February 23 – Steven Blankaart, Dutch entomologist (b. 1650)
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