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1706

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s

Years: 1701 1702 1703 1704 1705 - 1706 - 1707 1708 1709 1710 1711

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• May 23 - Battle of Ramillies

Year in topic

• 1706 in literature
• 1706 in science

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 into French of Isaac Newton's Principia (died 1749)

Deaths

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

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