14 March – The Alien Act 1705 (a response to the Parliament of Scotland's Act of Security 1704) provides that Scottish nationals in England would be treated as aliens (foreign nationals), and estates held by Scots would be treated as alien property, and also that trade embargoes would be placed on Scottish staple products, unless the Scots enter into negotiations regarding a proposed Treaty of Union of the parliaments of Scotland and England by 25 December.[2][3]
20 March (31 March N.S.) – Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar: a fleet of 35 warships from the navies of England, Portugal and the Netherlands, commanded by English Admiral John Leake, arrives at the Bay of Gibraltar with English and Portuguese troop reinforcements. The French and Spanish retreat by 3 May.[4]
7 May–6 June – General election results in no clear majority for either political faction in the House of Commons but increased influence for the Whigs.[6] During the campaign there is mob violence in some constituencies.
14 July – The newly-elected 2nd Parliament of Queen Anne, the last to serve before the union with Scotland that produces Great Britain, is opened by the Queen.
18 July – War of the Spanish Succession: The Battle of Elixheim is fought near the city of Tienen in the Low Countries. Soldiers under the command of England's Duke of Marlborough kill 3,000 French troops under the command of the Duc de Valleroy and force the retreat of the remainder, breaking the "Lines of Brabant". Because his troops are exhausted, Marlborough is unable to send them in pursuit.
25 September – Queen Anne appoints commissioners to negotiate a Treaty of Union of the parliaments of Scotland and England.[6]
3 or 4 October – 31 people are killed in a colliery explosion at the Stony Flatt pit in Gateshead on Tyneside, the earliest major British colliery disaster for which there is reliable evidence.[7]
^Donohue, Joseph, ed. (2004). "Chronology". Cambridge History of British Theatre. Vol. 2: 1660 to 1895. Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-65068-7.
^ abPalmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 204–205. ISBN0-7126-5616-2.
