1706

Events

• May 23 - Battle of Ramillies
• November 5 - The Dublin Gazette publishes its first edition.

Births

• January 17 - Benjamin Franklin, American politician (died 1790)
• January 28 - John Baskerville, printer, typefounder (died 1775)
• March 6 - Sir George Pocock, British admiral (died 1792)
• April 24 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (died 1784)
• June 10 - John Dollond, English optician (died 1761)
• October 18 - Baldassare Galuppi, composer
• December 17 - Emilie du Chatelet, French scientific writer and translator (died 1749)
• James Abercrombie, British general (died 1781)

Deaths

• January 21 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)
• February 27 - John Evelyn, English writer, gardener and diarist (b. 1620)
• March 3 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer
• December 9 - Peter II of Portugal
• December 28 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (b. 1647)

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