This article is about the year 1706.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
Decades: | 1670s 1680s 1690s – 1700s – 1710s 1720s 1730s |
Years: | 1703 1704 1705 – 1706 – 1707 1708 1709 |
1706 by topic: | |
Arts and Sciences | |
Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science | |
Countries | |
Canada –Denmark – England – France – Ireland – Norway – Scotland –Sweden – | |
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Colonial governors – State leaders | |
Birth and death categories | |
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Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1706 MDCCVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2459 |
Armenian calendar | 1155 ԹՎ ՌՃԾԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 6456 |
Bengali calendar | 1113 |
Berber calendar | 2656 |
English Regnal year | 4 Ann. 1 – 5 Ann. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2250 |
Burmese calendar | 1068 |
Byzantine calendar | 7214–7215 |
Chinese calendar | 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4402 or 4342 — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4403 or 4343 |
Coptic calendar | 1422–1423 |
Discordian calendar | 2872 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1698–1699 |
Hebrew calendar | 5466–5467 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1762–1763 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1628–1629 |
- Kali Yuga | 4807–4808 |
Holocene calendar | 11706 |
Igbo calendar | 706–707 |
Iranian calendar | 1084–1085 |
Islamic calendar | 1117–1118 |
Japanese calendar | Hōei 3 (宝永3年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
Korean calendar | 4039 |
Minguo calendar | 206 before ROC 民前206年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2248–2249 |
1706 (MDCCVI) was a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Julian calendar, the 1706th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 706th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1700s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1706 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929. In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Monday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
Events
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.
- March 31 – The last Courts (parliament) of the Principality of Catalonia were finished, presided by the king Charles III of Spain.
- May 23 – Battle of Ramillies: English, Dutch, German, Swiss and Scottish troops led by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeat the French.
July–December
- July 22 – Treaty of Union between Scotland and England agreed in London for ratification by the national legislatures.[1]
- September 7 – War of Spanish Succession – Battle of Turin: Forces of Austria and Savoy defeat the French.
- October – Twinings founder, Thomas Twining, opens the first known tea room at 216 Strand, London, still open as of 2015.[2][3][4]
Date unknown
- 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.
Births
- January 7 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
- January 17 – Benjamin Franklin, American philosopher, founding father and inventor (d. 1790)
- January 28 – John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
- March 6 – Sir George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
- January 17 – Johann Christoph Heilbronner, German mathematical historian (d. 1745 or 1747)
- 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 – Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)
- date unknown – James Abercrombie, British general (d. 1781)
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)
- Byerley Turk, thoroughbred stallion (b. c.1684)
References
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 204–205. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
- ^ Button, Henry G.; Lampert, Andrew P. (1976). The Guinness Book of the Business World. Enfield: Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-900424-32-X.
- ^ "About Twinings - 216 Strand". Twinings. 2015. Retrieved 2015-02-13.