1706 Totally Explained

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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.

Events of 1706

January - June

March 27 - Concluding that Emperor Iyasus I of Ethiopia had abdicated by retiring to a monastery, a council of high officials appoint Tekle Haymanot I Emperor of Ethiopia.
May 23 - Battle of Ramillies in the War of Spanish Succession - English, Dutch, and German troops defeat the French.

July - December

September 7 - The Battle of Turin in the War of Spanish Succession - forces of Austria and Savoy defeat the French.

November 5 - The Dublin Gazette publishes its first edition.

Births

January 7 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (died 1751)

January 17 - Benjamin Franklin, American (died 1790)

January 28 - John Baskerville, English printer (died 1775)

March 6 - Sir George Pocock, British admiral (died 1792)

April 24 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (died 1784)

May 17 - Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (died 1780)

May 20 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (died 1777)

June 10 - John Dollond, English optician (died 1761)

October 18 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (died 1785)

November 8 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (died 1772)

December 17 - Emilie du Chatelet, French mathematician and physicist (died 1749)

date unknown - James Abercrombie, British general (died 1781)

Deaths

January 21 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (born 1649)

January 29 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (born. 1638)

February 27 - John Evelyn, English writer, gardener and diarist (born 1620)

March 1 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (born 1632)

March 3 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer (born 1653)

April 10 - Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (born 1666)

September 9 - Ferdinand de Marsin, Marshal of France, mortally wounded at the battle of Turin (born 1656)

October 13 - Iyasus I of Ethiopia (born 1682)

November 15 - Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (born 1683)

December 9 - Peter II of Portugal (born 1648)

December 28 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (born 1647)

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