1706

This article is about the year 1706.

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 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – England – France – Ireland – Norway – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1706 in other calendars

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.
• 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.

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)