* 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.

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

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

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

When the French forces were recalled in 1706, he accompanied the duke to Paris, where he was favourably received by Louis XIV.

In 1706, the Elector of Bavaria was deprived of his offices and titles for siding with Louis against the Empire.

Louis Bevier, the New Paltz patentee, bought the area for two of his sons, Jean Bevier and Abram Bevier in 1705 or 1706.

The early months of 1706 also proved frustrating for the Duke as Louis XIV's generals gained early successes in Italy and Alsace.

Here, in 1706, he published his earliest known compositions: the harpsichord works that make up his first book of Pièces de clavecin, which show the influence of his friend Louis Marchand.

The refusal of the Whigs to make peace with France in 1706, and again in 1709 when Louis XIV offered to yield every point for which the allies professed to be fighting, showed that the war was not being continued in the national interest, and the ministry was supported by the queen, Parliament and the people in wishing to terminate hostilities.

Louis Couperin ( c. 1626 – 1661 ) was the first composer to embrace the genre, and harpsichord preludes were used until the first half of the 18th century by numerous composers including Jean-Henri d ' Anglebert ( 1629 – 1691 ), Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre ( 1665 – 1729 ), François Couperin ( 1668 – 1733 ) and Jean-Philippe Rameau ( 1683 – 1764 ), whose very first printed piece ( 1706 ) was in this form.

; 1714: Upon the death of his second cousin Queen Anne, George Louis, Elector of Hannover succeeds as the new King, George I, of Great Britain and Ireland, the former of which had itself been established in 1706.

In May 1706, Villeroi, pressured by King Louis XIV to atone for France's earlier defeats, initiated an offensive in the Low Countries by crossing the Dyle river.

* June 22 – Louis de Cahusac, librettist ( born 1706 )

The fort is destroyed in 1706 by the Duke of Berwick when Nice is occupied by the French armies of King Louis XIV.

* John Louis Adolph ( 1706 – 62 )

The myth was perpetuated by Romeyn de Hooghe's Spiegel van Staat der Vereenigden Nederlanden (" Mirror of the State of the United Netherlands ", 1706 ), which also ran to many editions, and it was revived in the atmosphere of Romantic nationalism in the late eighteenth-century reforms that saw a short-lived Batavian Republic and, in the colony of the Dutch East Indies, a capital ( now Jakarta ) that was named Batavia.

In 1706 Raoul Auger Feuillet published his Recüeil de Contredances, a collection of " contredanse anglais " presented in a simplified form of Beauchamp-Feuillet notation and including some dances invented by the author as well as authentic English dances.

While developing Santa Fe as a trade center, the returning settlers founded Albuquerque in 1706 from existing surrounding communities, naming it for the viceroy of New Spain, Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque.

In 1706 Francisco de Hurtado Izquierdo and later his collaborator José Bada built the current tabernacle of the cathedral.

The design of the tabernacle of 1706 preserves the classic proportions of the church, with its multiple columns crossing the forms of Diego de Siloé.

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* Luis de Córdova y Córdova ( 1706 – 1796 ), Spanish admiral

* Barrio y Templo Parroquial de San Sebastián ( 1706 )

* Capilla de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria ( 1706 )

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

Eau de Cologne ( EdC ) since 1706 in Cologne, Germany, is originally a specific fragrance and trademark.

Becoming de facto leader of Allied forces during the War of the Spanish Succession, his victories on the fields of Blenheim ( 1704 ), Ramillies ( 1706 ), Oudenarde ( 1708 ), and Malplaquet ( 1709 ), ensured his place in history as one of Europe's great generals.

** RCT 1 – Premier livre de Clavecin ( 1706 )

Le contrôle de l ' apparence vestimentaire à Lausanne d ' après les lois somptuaires bernoises et les registres du Consistoire de la Ville ( 1675 – 1706 ).

In the Old Town area of Albuquerque New Mexico, the San Felipe de Neri Catholic Church, built in 1793 to replace the original 1706 mission church, contains a Star of David on the left and right sides of the altar ; evidence of the influence of Crypto-Jews in New Mexico.

* September 5 – Lauritz de Thurah, architectural historian ( born 1706 )

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* Masaniello's insurrection appealed to the imagination of poets and composers, and formed the subject of several operas, including Reinhard Keiser's " Masaniello furioso " ( 1706 ) and Daniel Auber's La Muette de Portici ( 1828 ).

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