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 ).

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.

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.

It had been redefined during the reign of Queen Anne, in 1706, as 231 cubic inches exactly, which is the result of the earlier definition with π approximated to.

Other instruments associated with Paganini include the Antonio Amati 1600, the Nicolò Amati 1657, the Paganini-Desaint 1680 Stradivari, the Guarneri-filius Andrea 1706, the Le Brun 1712 Stradivari, the Vuillaume c. 1720 Bergonzi, the Hubay 1726 Stradivari, and the Comte Cozio di Salabue 1727 violins ; the Countess of Flanders 1582 da Salò-di Bertolotti, and the Mendelssohn 1731 Stradivari violas ; the Piatti 1700 Goffriller, the Stanlein 1707 Stradivari, and the Ladenburg 1736 Stradivari cellos ; and the Grobert of Mirecourt 1820 ( guitar ).

His good fortune increased during the pontificate of Pope Clement XI ( 1700 – 21 ), who employed his talents as a courtier and rewarded him with a cardinal's hat, on 17 May 1706, retaining his services as papal treasurer.

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.

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.

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.

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

August II resisted, still possessing control of his native Saxony, but was decisively defeated at the Battle of Fraustadt in 1706, a battle sometimes compared to the Ancient Battle of Cannae due to the Swedish forces ' use of double envelopment, with a deadly result for the Saxon army.

August II was forced to sign the Treaty of Altranstädt in 1706 in which he made peace with the Swedish Empire, renounced his claims to the Polish – Lithuanian crown, accepted Stanisław Leszczyński as king, and ended his alliance with Russia.

Among people associated with Deptford are Christopher Marlowe, who was murdered at Deptford Strand ; diarist John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ) who lived at Sayes Court, and had Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) as a guest for about three months in 1698 ; and Sir Francis Drake who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind in Deptford Docks.

After many conflicts with other Indian tribes, losing a war to the Tunica in 1706, and to escape the encroachment of the white man, the Houma Indians continued moving south to more remote areas.

The Connecticut General Assembly, held in Hartford in 1706, appointed William Pitkin, Joseph Tallcot, William Whiting and Richard Lord, as a committee with full power to lay out the bounds of the town and divisions of the land, to admit inhabitants.

In 1706 he proposed and negotiated the Union with Scotland and when the Elector of Hanover received the Garter, after the Act had passed for securing the Protestant Succession, he was appointed to carry the ensigns of the Order to the Electoral Court.

The French cantata, which should not be confused with the Italian or the German cantata, was " invented " in 1706 by the poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau and soon taken up by many famous composers of the day, such as Montéclair, Campra, and Clérambault.

It was later taken by the French Marshal Turenne in the War of Devolution of 1667, then occupied by France until 1706 along with Southern Flanders in general.

The construction of a paved road from 1706 until 1709 was an important event in the growth of the municipality, together with the construction of a railroad in 1866.

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

In 1706 he wrote a refutation of Dr Henry Dodwell's views on the immortality of the soul, and this drew him into controversy with Anthony Collins.

Through his learning and his manner of discussion, he co-operated with S. J. Baumgarten of Halle ( 1706 – 1757 ) in disengaging the current dogmatic theology from Lutheran Orthodoxy, along with any Lutheran scholastic or mystical influences, and thus paved a way for a Rationalist revolution in theology.

By September 1706 Harley ordered Defoe to Edinburgh as a secret agent to do everything possible to help secure acquiescence in the Treaty of Union.

* 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.

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.

This event was the result of the Treaty of Union that was agreed on 22 July 1706, and then ratified by both the Parliament of England and Parliament of Scotland each passing an Act of Union in 1707.

However, the union of England and Scotland necessitated a change in the design of the arms on the shield in 1706 ( although the actual union took place on 1 May 1707, just over a month after the start of the year, the bill for the Act of Union received the Royal Assent on 6 March 1707 ( that is, still in 1706 by the old-style calendar )), therefore coins dated 1706 appear with both reverses.

The continuance of Scots law was guaranteed under the 1706 Treaty of Union that led to the Acts of Union 1707, and as a consequence English law ( and after 1801, Irish law ) also continued to be separate.

Following the Treaty of Union in 1706, Acts of Union, ratifying the Treaty, were passed in both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland, which created a new Kingdom of Great Britain.

The Court of Session is explicitly preserved " in all time coming " in Article XIX of the Treaty of Union between England and Scotland, subsequently passed into legislation by the Acts of Union in 1706 and 1707 respectively.

* Wednesday Club Dialogues upon the Union ( 1706 ), a series of imaginary dialogues in which Paterson expressed his beliefs that Scotland had to be guaranteed equal taxation, freedom of trade and proportionate representation in Parliament if union with England was to succeed.

* Treaty of Union agreed by commissioners for each parliament on 22 July 1706.

Once the terms of the Treaty of Union were agreed in 1706, Acts of Union were passed in both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland, which created a new Kingdom of Great Britain.

Born in Petersham, Surrey, he supported his brother, John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll ( on many topics, most notably the Act of Union ), earning him the title of Earl of Ilay in 1706.

The united Kingdom of Great Britain was born on May 1, 1707, shortly after the parliaments of Scotland and England had ratified the Treaty of Union of 1706 by each approving Acts of Union combining the two parliaments and the two royal titles.

Under the aegis of the Queen and her advisors a Treaty of Union was drawn up, and negotiations between England and Scotland began in earnest in 1706.

The political union between the Kingdoms of Scotland and England ( also including Wales as an English possession ) was created by the Acts of Union, passed in the parliaments of both kingdoms in 1707 and 1706 respectively, which united the governments of what had previously been independent states ( though they had shared the same monarch in a personal union since 1603 ) under the Parliament of Great Britain.

Located near the modern day city of Encarnación, Trinidad was originally constructed in 1706, the intended self-sufficient city came complete with a central meeting plaza, where most of the celebrations, such as Mass and matrimony were celebrated, a large church meetinghouse, a school, several workshops, a museum and housing for the local Indian population.

Founded in 1706, Chestertown rose in stature when it was named one of the English colony of Maryland's six Royal Ports of Entry.

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.

Leuven fell on 25 May 1706 ; three days later, the Allies entered Brussels, the capital of the Spanish Netherlands.

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

Frederick William married his first cousin Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, George II's younger sister ( daughter of his uncle, King George I of Great Britain and Sophia Dorothea of Celle ) on 28 November 1706.

In Oxford, he wrote a series of Jewish almanacs for Christians, which he later collected and compiled as the Discourses on the Ecclesiastical and Civil Polity of the Jews ( 1706 ).

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.

In 1703 and in 1706 combined French-Spanish fleets attacked and sacked Nassau, after which some settlers left and the Proprietors gave up on trying to govern the Bahamas.

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.

" 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.

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.

After decades of encroachment by English colonists, the Tribe moved south from Virginia, where they settled in 1706 on a reservation abandoned by the Chowanoke.

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.

In 1706 Salvatore also took up the non-musical post of governor of the town of Maratea ( on the western coast of what is now Basilicata ), and in 1709 that of Terlizzi ( some twenty miles south-east of Andria ).

He was born in Lisbon and succeeded his father Peter II in December 1706, and was proclaimed on 1 January 1707.