1706
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Events
- May 23 – Battle of Ramillies
- November 5 – The Dublin Gazette publishes its first edition.
Births
- January 17 – Benjamin Franklin, American politician (d. 1790)
- January 28 – John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
- March 6 – Sir George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
- April 24 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (d. 1784)
- June 10 – John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761)
- October 18 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (d. 1785)
- December 17 – Emilie du Chatelet, French scientific writer and translator (d. 1749)
- James Abercrombie, British general (d. 1781)
Deaths
- January 21 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)
- February 27 – John Evelyn, English writer, gardener and diarist (b. 1620)
- March 3 – Johann Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1653)
- December 9 – Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
- December 28 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (b. 1647)
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