Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1670s  1680s  1690s  – 1700s –  1710s  1720s  1730s
Years:	1703 1704 1705 – 1706 – 1707 1708 1709

1706 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:   Canada – England – Scotland –

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1706 (MDCCVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). Year 1706 of the Swedish calendar was a common year starting on Monday, one day ahead of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1706 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1706

[edit] January–June

• March 27 – Concluding that Emperor Iyasus I of Ethiopia has abdicated by retiring to a monastery, a council of high officials appoint Tekle Haymanot I Emperor of Ethiopia.
• May 23 – Battle of Ramillies: English, Dutch, and German troops defeat the French.

[edit] July–December

1706 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1706 MDCCVI
Ab urbe condita	2459
Armenian calendar	1155 ԹՎ ՌՃԾԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-138 – -137
Bengali calendar	1113
Berber calendar	2656
Buddhist calendar	2250
Burmese calendar	1068
Byzantine calendar	7214 – 7215
Chinese calendar	乙酉年十一月十七日 (4342/4402-11-17) — to — 丙戌年十一月廿七日 (4343/4403-11-27)
Coptic calendar	1422 – 1423
Ethiopian calendar	1698 – 1699
Hebrew calendar	5466 – 5467
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1761 – 1762
- Shaka Samvat	1628 – 1629
- Kali Yuga	4807 – 4808
Holocene calendar	11706
Iranian calendar	1084 – 1085
Islamic calendar	1117 – 1118
Japanese calendar	Hōei 3 (宝永3年)
Korean calendar	4039
Thai solar calendar	2249
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• September 7 – War of Spanish Succession – Battle of Turin: Forces of Austria and Savoy defeat the French.
• November 5 – The Dublin Gazette publishes its first edition.

[edit] Undated

• English Parliament establishes the first turnpike trusts which place a length of road under the control of trustees drawn from local landowners and traders. The turnpike trusts borrow capital for road maintenance against the security of tolls and this arrangement becomes the common method of road maintenance for the next 150 years.
• Twinings founder, Thomas Twining, opened the first known tea room at 216 Strand, London.

[edit] Births

• January 7 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
• January 17 – Benjamin Franklin, American (d. 1790)
• January 28 – John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
• March 6 – Sir George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
• April 24 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (d. 1784)
• May 17 – Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (d. 1780)
• May 20 – Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (d. 1777)
• June 10 – John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761)
• October 18 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (d. 1785)
• November 8 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
• December 17 – Emilie du Chatelet, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)
• date unknown – James Abercrombie, British general (d. 1781)

[edit] Deaths

• January 21 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)
• January 29 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
• February 27 – John Evelyn, English writer, gardener and diarist (b. 1620)
• March 1 – Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (b. 1632)
• March 3 – Johann Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1653)
• April 10 – Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1666)
• August 23 – Edward Nott, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
• September 9 – Ferdinand de Marsin, Marshal of France (mortally wounded at the battle of Turin) (born 1656)
• October 13 – Iyasus I of Ethiopia (b. 1682)
• November 15 – Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683)
• December 9 – Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
• December 28 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (b. 1647)