1706
Events
January– March
January 26
February 6 – The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico , is incorporated by governor Don Francisco Cuervo y Valdes as La Villa de Alburquerque in the Spanish colonial province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in New Spain . Governor Cuervo sends a report on April 23 to the Spanish Crown and to New Spain's Governor, Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque announcing that the new villa, consisting of 35 families and having a population of 252 adults, has been named in honor of the Duke.
February 13 – Great Northern War – Battle of Fraustadt : Outnumbered more than 4 to 1 in infantry troops, and more than 2 to 1 overall, Swedish troops under the command of General Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld defeat a larger force of 20,000 Russian and Saxon infantry and cavalry.
March 21 – Mary Channing , who was pregnant at the time that she was convicted of the murder of her husband, is burned at the stake at Dorset , in front of a crowd of 10,000 onlookers.
March 27 – Concluding that Emperor Iyasu 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 General Court (parliament) of the Principality of Catalonia ends, presided over by king Charles III , the Habsburg pretender to the throne of Spain.
April– June
April 10 – The Battle of Grodno ends with a Swedish victory over Russian troops.
April 27 – War of the Spanish Succession : After a siege of 14 days , a French and Spanish army fails to take control of Barcelona , which had been captured by Habsburg armies in 1705.
May 12 – A total eclipse of the Sun takes place and is visible in most of Europe, with a path crossing modern-day Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Russia
May 23 – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Ramillies : English, Dutch, German, Swiss and Scottish troops led by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough , defeat Franco-Bavarian forces in the Low Countries.
June 9 – Frederick IV of Denmark-Norway sends the first two Protestant missionaries to India, dispatching Lutherans Heinrich Plütcshau and Bartholomeus Ziegenbalg to Denmark-Norway's colony in India , the Dansk Ostindien , based at Tharangambadi ("Tranquebar") in what is now the Tamil Nadu state.
June 11 – In Tibet , Lha-bzang Khan , khan of the Khoshut , kills the regent and kidnaps the 6th Dalai Lama , Tsangyang Gyatso, and kills the Lama's regent.
June 28 – War of the Spanish Succession : Troops dispatched from Portugal capture Madrid and proclaim the Habsburg dynasty's Archduke Charles of Austria to be the King Carlos III of Spain, after the Bourbon ruler, Philip V , has fled.
June 29 – Flemish Jesuit missionary François Noël is welcomed in China by the Kangxi Emperor at the Forbidden City in Beijing , and discusses the Emperor's disdain over the disapproval of Jesuit accommodation of Confucian rites by the Roman Catholic Church .
October– December
October 13
Augustus II , known as August der Starke (Augustus the Strong), Elector of Saxony, having ruled as King of Poland since 1706, signs the Treaty of Altranstädt (1706) , renouncing all claims to the throne to settle his fight with Sweden during the Great Northern War .
Iyasu I , Emperor of Ethiopia since 1682, is assassinated on the island of Tana, on orders of his son, Tekle Haymanot I , who has ruled in Iyasu's place. After being crowned as the new Emperor, Tekle Haymanot is stabbed to death in 1708 on orders of Iyasu's brother, Tewoflos .
October – Twinings founder, Thomas Twining, opens the first known tea room at 216 Strand, London , still open as of 2026 [ update] .
November 4 – The Parliament of Scotland votes, 116 to 83, to approve the merger of Scotland with England to form the Kingdom of Great Britain .
November 6 – A British attempt to conquer the Canary Islands fails when a fleet of 12 Royal Navy warships, commanded by Admiral John Jennings is forced to retreat after being met by a heavy artillery attack while sailing into Santa Cruz Bay
November 15 – Five months after having been deposed from his position as the Dalai Lama , Tsangyang Gyatso disappears while in exile in Qinghai and is presumed to have been murdered.
November 28 – The royal wedding of Prussia takes place in Berlin between the 18-year-old Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and his bride Sophia Dorothea of Hanover , the 19-year-old daughter of the future King George I of Great Britain .
December 9 – João V becomes the new King of Portugal upon the death of his father, Dom Pedro II , and begins a reign of 43 years.
December 14 – Spanish General Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay leads the successful capture of Alcántara from Portugal
December 31 – François Martin , the first Governor General of French India (now part of India's union territory of Puducherry ), retires after seven years and is replaced by Pierre Dulivier .
Births
Lauritz de Thurah born 4 March
Andrew Oliver born 28 March
François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix born 12 May
Benjamin Dass born 15 August
January– March
January 1
January 3 – Johann Caspar Füssli , Swiss portrait painter and writer (d. 1782 )
January 7 – Johann Heinrich Zedler , German publisher (d. 1751 )
January 17
January 20 – Frederick Charles Augustus, Count of Lippe (d. 1781 )
January 26 – John Elder , American colonial pastor (d. 1792 )
January 28 – Shubal Stearns , American colonial evangelist and preacher during the Great Awakening (d. 1771 )
February 2 – Claude-Godefroy Coquart , Jesuit priest who probably arrived in Quebec in 1739 (d. 1765 )
February 8 – Luis de Córdova y Córdova , Spanish admiral (d. 1796 )
February 11 – Nils Rosén von Rosenstein , Swedish physician (d. 1773 )
February 12 – Johann Joseph Christian , German Baroque sculptor and woodcarver (d. 1777 )
February 17 – Robert Hampden-Trevor, 1st Viscount Hampden , British diplomat at The Hague and then joint Postmaster General (d. 1783 )
February 19 – John Hornyold , English Catholic bishop (d. 1778 )
February 20 – Phineas Stevens , distinguished officer noted for his defense of the Fort at Number 4 during a siege in April 1747 (d. 1756 )
February 26 – Jan Antonín Vocásek , Czech Baroque painter (d. 1757 )
February 28 – Philippe-François Bart , French naval officer who was Governor of Saint-Domingue during the Seven Years' War (d. 1784 )
March 1 – Sébastien Bigot de Morogues , French soldier, a sailor and military naval tactician (d. 1781 )
March 4 – Lauritz de Thurah , Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759 )
March 6 – Sir George Pocock , British admiral (d. 1792 )
March 7 – Johann Leonhard Dober , one of the two first missionaries of the Moravian Brethren in the West Indies in 1732 (d. 1766 )
March 12 – Johan Pasch , Swedish painter (d. 1769 )
March 13 – Johann Christoph Heilbronner , German mathematical historian (d. 1745 )
March 14 – Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten , German Protestant theologian (d. 1757 )
March 23 – Anna Maria Barbara Abesch , Swiss reverse glass painter and the daughter of Johann Peter Abesch (d. 1773 )
March 26 – Mather Byles , American clergyman active in British North America (d. 1788 )
March 28 – Andrew Oliver , merchant and public official in the province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1774 )
March 30 – Tommaso Struzzieri , Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Todi (1775–1780) (d. 1780 )
April– June
April 2 – Johann Joseph Würth , Austrian silversmith of the late baroque period (d. 1767 )
April 6 – Louis de Cahusac , French playwright and librettist (d. 1759 )
April 18 – William Brattle , Attorney General of province of Massachusetts Bay as well as a physician (d. 1776 )
April 24 – Giovanni Battista Martini , Italian musician (d. 1784 )
April 29 – Pierre-Antoine Gourgaud , French actor (d. 1774 )
April 30 – Philipp Jakob Straub , Austrian sculptor (d. 1774 )
May 12 – François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix , French physician and botanist who was a native of Alès (d. 1767 )
May 17 – Andreas Felix von Oefele , German historian and librarian (d. 1780 )
May 20 – Seth Pomeroy , American gunsmith and soldier from Northampton (d. 1777 )
May 22 – Samuel Troilius , Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden (d. 1764 )
June 10 – John Dollond , English optician (d. 1761 )
June 15 – Johann Joachim Kändler , German sculptor and important modeller of the Meissen porcelain manufactury (d. 1775 )
July– September
July 3 – Robert Lee, 4th Earl of Lichfield , English politician and peer (d. 1776 )
July 8 – John Hart , militia officer during King George's War and the French and Indian War (d. 1777 )
July 16 – Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne , French nobleman (d. 1771 )
July 21 – Pierre Lyonnet , artist and engraver who became a naturalist (d. 1789 )
August 1 – Franz Sebald Unterberger , South Tyrolean painter in the Baroque style (d. 1776 )
August 4 – Frederick Charles, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (d. 1761 )
August 8 – Johan Augustin Mannerheim , Swedish nobleman and military leader (d. 1778 )
August 11 – Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis , Regent of Württemberg (d. 1756 )
August 15 – Benjamin Dass , Norwegian educator and scholar who served as Rector of Trondheim Cathedral School (d. 1775 )
August 16 – Bakht Singh of Marwar , Indian Raja of the Rathore Clan (d. 1752 )
August 21 – Pierre Nicolas d'Incarville , French Jesuit, amateur botanist and missionary to China (d. 1757 )
August 24 – Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Baronet , British courtier and Whig politician (d. 1767 )
August 28 – Jan Bouman , Dutch architect (d. 1776 )
September 3 – Alonso Verdugo, 3rd Count of Torrepalma , Spanish count (d. 1767 )
September 8 – Antoine de Favray , French painter noted for his portraits of personalities of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1798 )
September 9 – Jean-Baptiste Barsalou , Canadian fur trader (d. 1776 )
September 12 – Léon Ménard , French lawyer and historian (d. 1767 )
September 21 – Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg , second wife of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1735 )
September 22 – Barbara Regina Dietzsch , Bavarian painter and engraver (d. 1783 )
October– December
October 6
October 11 – Nicolaes Geelvinck , mayor of Amsterdam (d. 1764 )
October 18 – Baldassare Galuppi , Venetian composer (d. 1785 )
November 2 – Francis Godolphin, 2nd Baron Godolphin , British peer and politician (d. 1785 )
November 6
November 7 – Carlo Cecere , Italian composer of operas (d. 1761 )
November 8 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer , German judge and philosopher (d. 1772 )
November 11 – Frederick William II, Prince of Nassau-Siegen , last Prince of Nassau-Siegen from the Calvinist line (d. 1734 )
November 18 – Johann Friedrich Alexander, Prince of Wied , German ruler (d. 1791 )
November 22 – Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough (d. 1758 )
November 25 – Henry Dodwell , British religious controversialist and lawyer (d. 1784 )
December 17 – Émilie du Châtelet , French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749 )
December 23 – John Cornwallis , British politician (d. 1768 )
December 24 – Anna Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt , German noblewoman and member of the House of Hohenzollern (d. 1751 )
December 25 – Maria Anna of Schwarzenberg , Margravine consort of Baden-Baden and Princess of Schwarzenberg by birth (d. 1755 )
December 31 – Elisabetta Maria Satellico , Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Poor Clares who served as her convent's abbess (d. 1745 )
date unknown
Deaths
Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark died 23 April
Adrien Baillet died 21 January
Petrus van Mastricht died 9 February
John Evelyn died 27 February
Caspar Schamberger died 8 April
Georg Joseph Kamel died 2 May
Marcantonio Barbarigo died 26 May
Kimpa Vita died 2 July
Thomas Regnaudin died 3 July
Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Anhalt-Dessau died 5 October
Arsenije III Crnojević died 27 October
6th Dalai Lama died 15 November
Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen died 3 December
Untung Surapati died 5 December
Peter II of Portugal died 9 December
July
July 2 – Kimpa Vita , Kongo Empire guérisseuse and Congolese prophet (b. 1684 )
July 3 – Thomas Regnaudin , French sculptor (b. 1622 )
July 6 – Leonard Plukenet , English botanist (b. 1641 )
July 8 – James Converse , farmer, soldier and office holder in Massachusetts (b. 1645 )
July 9 – Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville , French soldier, ship captain, explorer, founder of Louisiana (b. 1661 )
July 22 – Charles Wyndham , English politician (b. 1638 )
October
October 1 – Richard Lewis , Member of Parliament (b. 1627 )
October 5 – Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Anhalt-Dessau , princess-Abbess of Herford (b. 1665 )
October 6
October 8 – Giuseppe Agnelli , Italian theologian (b. 1621 )
October 10 – Archibald Hope, Lord Rankeillor , Scottish judge (b. 1639 )
October 11 – Pedro de Ardanaz , Spanish composer (b. 1638 )
October 13 – Iyasu I , emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1654 )
October 17 – William Jones , English lawyer, Deputy Governor of the Colony of Connecticut (b. 1624 )
October 20 – Adrienne Du Vivier , French colonist (b. 1626 )
October 26 – Andreas Werckmeister , German organist, music theorist and composer (b. 1645 )
October 27 – Arsenije III Crnojević , Serbian archbishop (b. 1633 )
October 31 – Sir Thomas Dyke, 1st Baronet , English politician (b. 1650 )
December
December 2 – Johann Georg Ahle , German composer, poet, organist, music theorist (b. 1651 )
December 3 – Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen , German countess and hymn writer (b. 1637 )
December 5 – Untung Surapati , Balinese slave-turned-warlord (b. 1660 )
December 8 – Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye , French historian (b. 1634 )
December 9 – King Peter II of Portugal , King of Portugal (b. 1648 )
December 12
December 19
December 25
December 28 – Pierre Bayle , French philosopher and writer (b. 1647 )
December 31 – François Martin , French colonial governor (b. 1634 )
References
↑ Three hundred years later, Albuquerque is the largest city in U.S. state of New Mexico . Howard Bryan, Albuquerque Remembered (University of New Mexico Press, 2006) pp. 28-30
↑ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, 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 August 17, 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 .
↑ "Acts of Union 1707" , MEMIM Encyclopedia
↑ "Johan Augustin Mannerheim" (in Swedish). Gotlands Försvarshistoria och Gotlands Trupper. Archived from the original on 2023-11-15. Retrieved 23 October 2024 .
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