On 11 January 1706, Marlborough finally reached London at the end of his diplomatic tour, but he had already been planning his strategy for the coming season.

* 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

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 ).

* 1706 – Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal Villeroi.

The stalemate was broken in 1706, as Marlborough drove the French out of most of the Spanish Netherlands, decisively defeating troops under Villeroi in the Battle of Ramillies in May and following up with the conquest of Antwerp and Dunkirk.

File: Ramillies1. jpg | The Duke of Marlborough at the Battle of Ramillies, 1706

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

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

In 1667, it was France ’ s turn to advance on the city, but the allied troops of the Netherlands and England, under the Duke of Marlborough, caused the heaviest damage in 1706.

In 1706, the Duchess of Marlborough fell out with Anne — a schism which the Tories were pleased to encourage.

Marlborough's own difficulties with the Dutch and other allied commissioners, rather than Villeroy's own skill, put off the inevitable disaster for some years, but in 1706 Marlborough attacked him and thoroughly defeated him at Ramillies.

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

Two occasional pieces followed: An advice to the poets: a poem occasioned by the wonderful success of her majesty's arms, under the conduct of the duke of Marlborough in Flanders ( 1706 ) and Instructions to Vander Beck ( 1709 ).

He served abroad in 1702 under Marlborough, who formed a high opinion of his military capacity and who recommended him for the command of a force for an invasion of France in 1706.

*, a second-rate, renamed Marlborough 1706 ; fought in the Seven Years ' War ; present in Sir George Pocock's fleet at the taking of Havana from the Spanish 1762 ; foundered at sea 1762.

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

* England 1706 Scotland 1706 The Duke of Marlborough leading a Dutch, Danish, and English force won a decisive victory against the Duc de Villeroi and Maximilian II Emanuel's Franco-Bavarian-Spanish army, resulting in their withdrawal from the Spanish Netherlands.

13 preach ’ d ... May 19, 1706, in a thankful remembrance for ... the late glorious victory obtain ’ d in Brabant, ... under the command of the duke of Marlborough, etc.

* John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough 8 February 1706 – 17 May 1712

The regiment served under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough at the victorious Battle of Ramillies in 1706 against the French in what is now Belgium and in the siege of Ostend.

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

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.

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.

In 1706 it was Rhett who commanded a flotilla that fought off a Franco-Spanish attack on Charles Town.

Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706 and baptized at Old South Meeting House.

The Battle of Ramillies (), fought on 23 May 1706, was a major engagement of the War of the Spanish Succession.

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.

Defoe made no attempt to explain why the same Parliament of Scotland which was so vehement for its independence from 1703 to 1705 became so supine in 1706.

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.

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

* was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1691, rebuilt in 1706 and broken up 1748.

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.

He was created Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna in 1706.

The first American Presbytery was organized at Philadelphia in 1706.

Thomas was the son of Col. Richard Lee II, Esq., " the scholar " ( 1647 – 1715 ) and Laetitia Corbin ( c. 1657 – 1706 ).

Ockley maintained that a knowledge of Oriental literature was essential to the proper study of theology, and in the preface to his first book, the Introductio ad linguas orientates ( 1706 ), he urges the importance of the study.

The first electrical storage device was invented in 1745, the so-called " Leyden jar ", and in 1749, Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ) demonstrated that lightning was electricity.

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 ).

Year 1706 ( MDCCVI ) was a common year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Spanish and French forces seized the Turks in 1706, but Bermudian forces expelled them four years later in what was probably Bermuda's only independent military operation.

Sir John Clerk, 1st Baronet, described her in 1706 " under a fit of the gout and in extreme pain and agony, and on this occasion everything about her was much in the same disorder as about the meanest of her subjects.

George in 1706, when he was Elector of Hanover.

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