1706 in England:

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Events from the year 1706 in the Kingdom of England.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - Anne of Great Britain

[edit] Events

• February - Regency Act, 1706 establishes Sophia of Hanover as heir to the English throne.^[1]
• 11 May - War of the Spanish Succession: British troops relieve Barcelona from a French siege.^[1]
• 23 May - War of the Spanish Succession: English troops led by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough together with Dutch and German troops defeat the French at the Battle of Ramillies.^[2]
• 23 July - Treaty of Union provides for England and Scotland to be merged into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707.^[1]
• 21 August - War of the Spanish Succession: Franco-Spanish assault on the British colony at Charleston, South Carolina repelled.^[1]

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• George Farquhar's play The Recruiting Officer and John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake.^[3]
• Opening of the Twinings tea shop in London still open as of 2008^[update].^[4]

[edit] Births

• 28 January - John Baskerville, printer (died 1775)
• 6 March - George Pocock, admiral (died 1792)
• 10 June - John Dollond, optician (died 1761)

[edit] Unknown dates

• Dick Turpin, highwayman (died 1739)

[edit] Deaths

• 29 January - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, poet and courtier (born. 1638)
• 27 February - John Evelyn, writer, gardener and diarist (born 1620)

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