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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1706.

Events

April 8 – George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Recruiting Officer first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London.^[1]^[2]
May 23 – The Battle of Ramillies, a victory for the British and their allies under the Duke of Marlborough, inspires several poets.
c. September – Daniel Defoe is sent to Edinburgh as a government agent to promote ratification of the Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
Philosopher Samuel Clarke attacks the views of Henry Dodwell on the immortality of the soul.

Anonymous – The Arabian Nights' Entertainments (serial, the first English translation of One Thousand and One Nights, taken from the first French translation)
Arthur Bedford – The Evil and Dangers of Stage-Plays
Samuel Clarke – A Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion
Stephen Clay – An Epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King
Daniel Defoe
- An Essay at Removing National Prejudices Against a Union with Scotland
- A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal (attrib)
John Dennis – Essay on the Operas after the Italian Manner
White Kennett – The History of England from the Commencement of the Reign of Charles I to the End of William III
John Locke – Posthumous Works of Mr John Locke
Simon Ockley – Introductio ad linguas orientates
Jonathan Swift – Baucis and Philemon
Matthew Tindal – The Rights of the Christian Church Asserted
Ned Ward – The London Spy

Daniel Baker – The History of Job
Richard Blackmore – 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
William Congreve – A Pindarique Ode. . . the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough
Daniel Defoe
- Caledonia
- A Hymn to Peace
- Jure Divino (on divine right)
- The Vision (re National Union)
John Dennis – The Battle of Ramillia
William Harison – Woodstock Park
John Philips – Cerealia: An imitation of Milton
Matthew Prior – The Squirrel
Thomas Tickell – Oxford
Isaac Watts – Horae Lyricae^[3]
José Tafalla y Negrete – Ramillete poético

January 17 – Benjamin Franklin, American polymath and politician (died 1790)
January 28 – John Baskerville, English printer and typographer (died 1775)
November 8 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German philosopher and jurist (died 1772)
November 14 – Benjamin Hoadly, English controversialist and bishop (died 1761)
December 17 – Émilie du Châtelet, French writer and translator (died 1749)

January 21 – Adrien Baillet, French critic (born 1649)
February 27 – John Evelyn, English diarist (born 1620)
August 6 – Jean-Baptiste du Hamel, French natural philosopher (born 1624)
December 8 – Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye, French historian (born 1634)
December 28 – Pierre Bayle, French encyclopedist and philosopher (born 1647)
Unknown dates
- John Phillips, English satirist (born 1631)
- Guillaume Vandive, French printer and bookseller (born 1680)

^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Redgrave, Corin (2003-09-11). "My season with Sam". The Independent. London. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
^ Rivers, Isabel (2004). "Watts, Isaac (1674–1748)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28888. Retrieved 2011-12-09. (subscription or UK public library membership required)