1705 in England

Events from the year 1705 in England.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Anne

Events

 * 16 April – Isaac Newton knighted by Queen Anne.
 * May
 * General election results in no clear majority for either political faction in Parliament.
 * The Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar ends with the defending Confederate forces (including the English) retaining control of the town.
 * 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.
 * 30 October – John Vanbrugh's play The Confederacy (adapted from the French) is first performed at his new London playhouse, The Queen's Theatre in Haymarket.
 * 27 December – John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake (adapted from the French) is first performed at his new London playhouse, The Queen's Theatre in Haymarket.
 * December – the Sophia Naturalization Act is passed by Parliament, which naturalizes Sophia of Hanover (next in succession to the British throne) and the "issue of her body" as British subjects.

Undated

 * Construction begins on Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire designed by John Vanbrugh for the Duke of Marlborough. It is completed in 1724.
 * Edmond Halley publicly predicts the periodicity of Halley's Comet and computes its expected path of return in 1757.

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)
 * 21 September (bapt.) – Dick Turpin, thief and highwayman (hanged 1739)
 * 28 September – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, statesman (died 1774)
 * 23 November – Thomas Birch, historian (died 1766)
 * Undated – Bay Bolton, racehorse (died 1736)

Deaths

 * 17 January – John Ray, naturalist (born 1627)
 * 6 April – Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Marske, landowner and Member of Parliament (born 1676)
 * 12 July – Titus Oates, conspirator (born 1649)