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The Battle of Ramillies 10 miles north of Namur May 22 gives the duke of Marlborough a victory over French forces commanded by the duc de Villeroi, whose 60,000-man army is slightly outnumbered by Marlborough's English, Dutch, German, and imperial infantry, cavalry, and artillerymen. Some 8,000 of the French are killed or wounded; 7,000 are taken prisoner; and 50 of the 70 French guns are captured (allied losses total 1,066 killed, 3,633 wounded). Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bavaria, loses the Lowlands and becomes a refugee at the French court. Louis XIV replaces the duc de Villeroi with Marshal Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme. Marlborough follows up his triumph at Ramillies by obtaining the submission of Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Ostend, and other major cities, taking another 14,000 prisoners in the continuing War of the Spanish Succession.
English forces raise a French siege of Barcelona May 23. Portuguese forces invade Spain in June and install the Austrian archduke Karl (Carlos) as king at Madrid, but Felipe V drives them out in October.
Eugene of Savoy vanquishes a French army at Turin September 7 with help from Prussian forces under Leopold of Dessau. Prince Eugene has 18,000 infantry, 12,000 cavalry, 5,000 militia, and some artillery, far outnumbering the 8,500 infantry, 6,000 cavalry, and 20 guns under the command of Marshal Ferdinand, comte de Marsin (who is mortally wounded) and the duc d'Orleans. Some 3,000 of his men are killed or wounded, but Eugene inflicts equally heavy casualties on the French, takes 6,000 prisoners, breaks the siege of Turin, and captures the French guns. Lombardy submits to him, Charles III is proclaimed king at Milan, and the French are driven out of Italy. Having been ruled by Spain since 1535, Milan will be under Austrian rule until 1797.
Saxony's elector Augustus II abdicates the Polish crown September 24 in the Treaty of Altranstadt, recognizes Stanislaw Lesczynski as king of Poland, and breaks his alliance with Russia's czar Peter I (but see 1709).
French naval officer Claude de Forbin, 51, attacks a Dutch convoy in the Baltic off the Dogger Bank in October, creating panic among the Dutch in the continuing War of the Spanish Succession (see 1707).
Portugal's Pedro II dies at his native Lisbon December 9 at age 58 after a 23-year reign. His 17-year-old son succeeds to power and will reign until his death in 1750 as João V.
Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville, prepares a French fleet for an expedition against British forts in the Carolinas but dies at Havana July 9 at age 44.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, has its origin in the town of Alburquerque founded in the northern part of New Spain. The town is named in honor of New Spain's new viceroy the duke of Alburquerque (the first "r" will be dropped in years to come).
Diarist John Evelyn dies at his native Wotton, Surrey, February 27 at age 85; philosopher Pierre Bayle at Rotterdam December 28 at age 59.
Theater: The Lady's Last Stake; or, The Wife's Revenge by Colley Cibber 12/13 at the Haymarket Theatre; The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar 4/8 at London's Drury Lane Theatre.
Tom's Coffee House opens at 216 the Strand, London. Operated by merchant Thomas Twining, it will become a major importer of tea.
New England's white colonist population reaches 120,000, having doubled since 1678 (see 1734).
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Mathematics
Synopsis palmariorum matheseos, or A New Introduction to the Mathematics by William Jones [b. Anglesey, Wales, 1675, d. London, July 3, 1749] is the first known text to use the Greek letter π (pi) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. See also 1717 Mathematics.
Medicine & healthAdversaria anatomica prima ("first anatomical notes") by Giovanni Battista Morgagni [b. Forlí (Italy), February 25, 1682, d. Padua (Italy), December 5, 1771] makes him known as an anatomist throughout Europe. See also 1761 Medicine & health.
PhysicsFrancis Hauksbee reports to the Royal Society that a glass tube that attracts bits of brass leaf after rubbing no longer attracts the brass after contact is made. Instead, the glass tube begins to repel the brass. See also 1733 Physics.
Poetry, Fiction, and Drama
- Nicholas Noyes: "On Cotton Mather's Endeavors Toward the Christian Education of Negro Slaves." Noyes's verse praising Mather's attempt to educate and convert slaves is an important expression of Puritan views on racial matters.
Sermons and Religious Writing
- Cotton Mather: The Negro Christianized. Although Mather kept slaves and believed that Christian law allowed slavery, he argues here for the humane treatment of slaves, stating that they are "Men, and not Beasts, that you have bought." He also argues against the notion that slaves should not be converted because it is unlawful for Christians to own other Christians.
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| Gregorian calendar | 1706 MDCCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2459 |
| Armenian calendar | 1155 ԹՎ ՌՃԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6456 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -138–-137 |
| 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 | 乙酉年十一月十七日 (4342/4402-11-17) — to —
丙戌年十一月廿七日(4343/4403-11-27) |
| Coptic calendar | 1422–1423 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1698–1699 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5466–5467 |
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| - Vikram Samvat | 1762–1763 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1628–1629 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4807–4808 |
| Holocene calendar | 11706 |
| Iranian calendar | 1084–1085 |
| Islamic calendar | 1117–1118 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōei 3 (宝永3年) |
| Korean calendar | 4039 |
| Minguo calendar | 206 before ROC 民前206年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2249 |
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Year 1706 (MDCCVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar. In the german calendar it was a rare year starting on Thursday, 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.
- May 23 – Battle of Ramillies: English, Dutch, and German troops defeat the French.
July–December
- 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 2010[update].[1][2]
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 (d. 1790)
- January 28 – John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
- March 6 – Sir George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
- April 24 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (d. 1784)
- May 17 – Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (d. 1780)
- May 20 – Michael Jordan, 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 – Emilie du Chatelet, 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
- ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070817164123/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750. 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.
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