1706

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1670s 1680s 1690s – 1700s – 1710s 1720s 1730s
Years:	1703 1704 1705 – 1706 – 1707 1708 1709

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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 the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Thursday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

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March 27 – Concluding that Emperor Iyasus I of Ethiopia has abdicated by retiring to a monastery, a council of high officials appoint Tekle Haymanot I Emperor of Ethiopia.
May 23 – Battle of Ramillies: English, Dutch, and German troops defeat the French.

September 7 – War of Spanish Succession – Battle of Turin: Forces of Austria and Savoy defeat the French.
October – Twinings founder, Thomas Twining, opens the first known tea room at 216 Strand, London, still open as of 2010^[update].^[1]^[2]

English Parliament establishes the first turnpike trusts which place a length of road under the control of trustees drawn from local landowners and traders. The turnpike trusts borrow capital for road maintenance against the security of tolls and this arrangement becomes the common method of road maintenance for the next 150 years.

January 7 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
January 17 – Benjamin Franklin, American philosopher, founding father and inventor (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)
May 17 – Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (d. 1780)
May 20 – Michael Jordan, American gunsmith and soldier (d. 1777)
June 10 – John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761)
October 18 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (d. 1785)
November 8 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
December 17 – Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)
date unknown – James Abercrombie, British general (d. 1781)

^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
^ Button, Henry G.; Lampert, Andrew P. (1976). The Guinness Book of the Business World. Enfield: Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-900424-32-X.

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