13 August (24 August NS) – War of the Spanish Succession: Allied
French/Spanish and English/Dutch fleets clash in
Battle of Málaga off
Málaga, causing heavy casualties on both sides but with no ships being sunk.
Daniel Defoe begins publication of A Review of the Affairs of France, a thrice-weekly newspaper reporting on the War of the Spanish Succession,[1] and (in July) publishes his documentary account of the
Great Storm of 1703, The Storm.