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

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

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.

The dye Prussian blue was first accidentally made around 1706, by heating substances containing iron and carbon and nitrogen.

* Carlo Colonna ( 1665-1739 ), created cardinal by Clement XI in 1706.

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

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.

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

There, a new settlement was formed, being granted a council two years later ( 1706 ), with the name of San Roque, and being considered by the Spanish Crown as the heir to the lost town of Gibraltar ( historical objects and records predating 1704 were subsequently taken to San Roque where they remain to this day.

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

* 1706 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries ' Parliaments, lead to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

The first indication of this change in approach comes from the 1706 pamphlet by John How, a stationer, titled Reasons humbly Offer'd for a Bill for the Encouragement of Learning and the Improvement of Printing.

Originating about 1650 to 1700, it was sparked by philosophers Baruch Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ), John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ), Pierre Bayle ( 1647 – 1706 ), physicist Isaac Newton ( 1643 – 1727 ), and philosopher Voltaire ( 1694 – 1778 ).

The French retaliated in 1706 with a raid on St. Kitts ; one attempt to do the same on Nevis failed, but a later one succeeded, led by Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville.

Articles of Union were approved by the commissioners on 22 July 1706, and ratified by the Scottish and English Parliaments on 16 January and 6 March 1707 respectively.

The fortress was completed by 1706.

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera considers La Cilla ( music by Michelangelo Faggioli, text by F. A. Tullio, 1706 ) and Luigi and Federico Ricci's Crispino e la comare ( 1850 ) to be the first and last sightings of the genre, although the term is still occasionally applied to newer work ( for example Ernst Krenek's Zeitoper Schwergewicht ).

In 1706, Spanish and French forces ousted the Bermudians, but were driven out themselves three years later by the Bermudian privateer Captain Lewis Middleton.

Binny & Ronaldson had bought the type founding equipment of Benjamin Franklin ’ s ( 1706 – 1790 ) type foundry established in 1786 and run by his grandson Benjamin Franklin Bache ( 1769 – 1798 ).

Introduced by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Section 1706 added a subsection ( d ) to Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978, which removed " safe harbor " exception for independent contractor classification ( which at the time avoided payroll taxes ) for workers such as engineers, designers, drafters, computer professionals, and " similarly skilled " workers.

" A suicide note by software professional Joseph Stack, who flew his airplane into a building housing IRS offices in February 2010, blamed his problems on many factors, including the Section 1706 change in the Internal Revenue Code, though no intermediary firm is mentioned, and failure to file a return was admitted.

The first occurrence of the term in English is found in An Institution of Fluxions by the English mathematician Humphry Ditton ( 1706 ), where he spells the word abscisse, possibly denoting the plural.

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.

It is not known precisely when Bach composed the work, but the available sources point to the period between 1706 and 1713.

1699 )— both of them written from the point of view of Protestant polemics — and, of greater scientific value, the Histoire des Juifs ( Rotterdam, 1706, Eng.

Early in 1706 he claimed that disaffection was driving the Galloway Cameronians into Jacobitism.

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

Eugene enhanced his standing during the War of the Spanish Succession where his partnership with the Duke of Marlborough secured victories against the French on the fields of Blenheim ( 1704 ), Oudenarde ( 1708 ), and Malplaquet ( 1709 ); he gained further success in the war as Imperial commander in northern Italy, most notably at the Battle of Turin ( 1706 ).

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.

The largest include Kotlin Island with the city of Kronstadt ( population 42, 800 ), Beryozovye Islands, Lisiy Island, Maly Vysotsky Island with the nearby city of Vysotsk ( population 1706 ), Hogland ( Suursaari ), Moshnyi Island, Bolshoy Tyuters ( Tytärsaari ), Sommers, Naissaar, Kimitoön, Kökar, Seskar, Lavansaari, Grachevo ( Seiskari ), Pakri Islands and others.

Michael Willmann ( 1630 – 1706 ), " Jacob's Ladder | the Dream of Jacob "

400 AD ), Ada Lovelace ( 1815 – 1852 ), Maria Gaetana Agnesi ( 1718 – 1799 ), Emmy Noether ( 1882 – 1935 ), Sophie Germain ( 1776 – 1831 ), Sofia Kovalevskaya ( 1850 – 1891 ), Alicia Boole Stott ( 1860 – 1940 ), Rózsa Péter ( 1905 – 1977 ), Julia Robinson ( 1919 – 1985 ), Olga Taussky-Todd ( 1906 – 1995 ), Émilie du Châtelet ( 1706 – 1749 ), Mary Cartwright ( 1900 – 1998 ), Olga Ladyzhenskaya ( 1922 – 2004 ), and Olga Oleinik ( 1925 – 2001 ).

In 1706 William Goldwyn published the first description of the game.

Amédée-François Frézier published his revised work Traité des feux d ' artice pour le spectacle ( Treatise on Fireworks ) in 1747 ( originally 1706 ), covering the recreational and ceremonial uses of fireworks, rather than their military uses.

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.

Rameau published his first book of harpsichord pieces in 1706 while Couperin ( who was fifteen years his senior ) waited until 1713 before publishing his first " ordres.

" Pieces for harpsichord ", 3 books, published 1706, 1724, 1726 / 27 (?

Newton had already developed his position some thirty years earlier, but Malebranche probably would not have been aware of it until it was finally published in the Opticks of 1704, or, more likely, in its Latin translation of 1706.

Jones published Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos in 1706, a work which was intended for beginners and which included theorems on differential calculus and infinite series.

Pierre Bayle ( 18 November 1647 – 28 December 1706 ) was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, published beginning in 1695.

He published the substance of his communications to the Academy in 1706 under the title of Adversaria anatomica, the first of a series by which he became favorably known throughout Europe as an accurate anatomist ; the book included Observations of the Larynx, the Lachrymal Apparatus, and the Pelvic Organs in the Female.

" In the first edition, these were sixteen such Queries ; that number was increased in the Latin edition, published in 1706, and then in the revised English edition, published in 1717 / 18.

Lord King published in 1702 a History of the Apostles ' Creed ( Leipzig, 1706 ; Basel, 1750 ) which went through several editions and was also translated into Latin.

Using official reports received by the Admiralty, Burchett wrote the Memoirs of Transactions at Sea during the War with France, which was published in 1706 by the Queen's Printer, Edward Jones.

He was quite surprised when Elisabeth published a harsh rejection of his essay and there stated that she " just sees from an old notebook " that the lost document had really put the events in 1706, not 1716.

In 1706 " Cerealia ; an imitation of Milton " was published by Thomas Bennet, the bookseller who issued ' Blenheim '.

In his Factum de la France, published in 1705 or 1706, he gave a more concise resume of his ideas.

The memorial, together with the emperors reply, was published in the Peking Gazette but failed to allay the excitement then raging in Europe over the question. In 1706, Kangxi decided to send Bouvet to the Vatican to settle the Chinese Rites controversy, but took back his decision later.

Nothing is known about Charles Theodore's life for 25 years after 1706, when his father died, except the fact that he probably lived in England for some time ( his name appears in a 1732 list of subscribers to a volume of harpsichord music published in London ).

* 1706 – 13th edition ( the first edition published by John Young )

Or the Art of Dancing ) and P. Siris ( as The Art of Dancing ), both published in 1706.

The Principality of Mindelheim, drawn in 1706, as published in Coxe's Marlborough

Besides this, in 1706 he wrote a work on roulettes, especially spherical epicycloids ; and in 1729 and 1731 he published memoirs on Newton's essay on curves of the third degree.

He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1668, despite not having published anything, and in 1704 he became an honorary member of the Académie des sciences, of which he became president in 1706.