* 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist, and Freemason ( d. 1759 )

* 1637 – Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen, German hymn writer ( d. 1706 )

* 1706 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician ( d. 1780 )

** Volume 1: Journalist, 1706 – 1730 ( 2005 ) 568pp excerpt and text search

* Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790 Text of biography by Rev.

* Benjamin Franklin 300 ( 1706 – 2006 ) Official web site of the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary.

Dendermonde finally succumbed on 6 September followed by Ath – the last conquest of 1706 – on 2 October.

** Pedro II ( 1683 – 1706 )

** João V ( 1706 – 1750 )

* Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough ( 1681 – 1733 ), eldest daughter of the 1st Duke, succeeded her father by Act of Parliament ( 1706 )

* Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough ( 1706 – 1758 ), third son of Lady Sunderland

The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) shaped his own works after those of Johann Jakob Froberger ( 1616 – 1667 ), Johann Pachelbel ( 1653 – 1706 ), Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583 – 1643 ), Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ), and other composers.

* 1706 – During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.

* 1777 – Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier ( b. 1706 )

* 1706 17 February – Queen Anne though not yet the legal ruler of the territory, declared Gibraltar a free port ( upon request of the Sultan of Morocco, who wanted Gibraltar being given this status in return for supplying the town )

The Castle in Pszczyna | Castle in Pleß, today Pszczyna, where the Promnitz family resided when Telemann worked for them in 1704 – 1706

John Baskerville ( 28 January 1706 – 8 January 1775 ) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and typographer.

* 1649 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic ( d. 1706 )

* 1706 – Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and inventor ( d. 1790 )

In late January or early February 1706 he was forced to flee from the invading troops of the Swedish King Charles XII.

* 1638 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet ( d. 1706 )

* January 24 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier ( d. 1706 )

* October 20 – Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, British politician ( b. 1706 )

In the treaty of Altranstädt ( 1706 ), August was indeed forced to step down from the Polish throne, but Charles had lost a valuable time advantage over his main enemy in the East, Peter I, who had had the time to recover and build up a new and better army.

On 3 July 1706 the Archduke Charles came to the town.

# Charles de Saint-Albin, dit l ' Abbé d ' Orléans, Archbishop of Cambrai, legitimized in 1706 ( Paris, 1698-Paris, 1764, bur Paris )

Leading the formidable Swedish army against the alliance, Charles had by 1706 forced to submission all parties but Russia.

* Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle 1701 – 1706

* Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough ( 1706 – 1758 ), general and politician, second son of the 3rd Earl of Sunderland

Within a year of conferring the crown matrimonial on Countess Reventlow, Frederick also recognized as dynastic the issue of the morganatic marriages of two of his kinsmen, Duke Philip Ernest of Schleswig-Holstein-Glucksburg ( 1673 – 1729 ) and Duke Christian Charles of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön-Norburg ( 1674 – 1706 ), to non-royal nobles.

With this object, during Charles XII's stay at Altranstädt ( 1706 – 1707 ), he tried to divert the king's attention to the Holstein question, and six years later, when the Swedish commander, Magnus Stenbock, crossed the Elbe, Görtz rendered him as much assistance as was compatible with not openly breaking with Denmark, even going so far as to surrender the fortress of Tönning to the Swedes.

* Sir Charles Hedges MP: 18 May 1704-3 December 1706

He went to Havana, where he was involved in planning an an expedition against Charles Town, Carolina, when he died suddenly, perhaps of yellow fever, in July, 1706.

On 1 September 1706, Charles invaded Saxony, forcing Augustus to yield the Polish throne to Leszczyński by the Treaty of Altranstädt.

Both his sons inherited the title Viscount Hatton in turn: William on his father's death in 1706, and Henry Charles for two years 1760-1762.

In 1705 he served in Spain under Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough, notably at the Siege of Barcelona and in 1706 he was appointed English minister in Spain, but his duties were still military as well as diplomatic, and in 1708, after some differences with Peterborough, who favoured defensive measures only, he was made commander-in-chief of the British forces in that country.

* Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough ( 1706 – 1758 )

After 1706, " the King's Road " ( chemin du Roy, now Lakeshore Road ) was decreed, and the parish was subdivided in three côtes: St. Rémy ( present-day Boulevard-des-Sources ), St. Jean and St. Charles.

* Charles Home, 6th Earl of Home ( d. 1706 )

Charles XII took it in 1706, and burned the town with its suburbs.

* Charles Spencer, 5th Earl of Sunderland ( 1706 – 1758 ) ( succeeded as Duke of Marlborough in 1733 )

* Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset ( 1638 – 1706 )