1706

This page relates to the year 1706 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

February 22nd: The French Henri-Louis Chavagnac devastation the English colony of Saint-Christophe-and-Niévès in the the Antilles.
July 9th: To attack on the way the English colony of the Jamaica in the the Antilles, the French Pierre LeMoyne d' Iberville dies on his boat with broad of Havana.
Creation by the Spaniards of Albuquerque to the New Mexico.

Africa

March 8th, Ethiopia:

Beginning of the reign of Takla Haïmanot, Négus of Ethiopia (fine in 1708).
the négus Iyasou Large the must abdicate in front of the intrigues of his/her son Takla Haïmanot. It is withdrawn in a monastery on an island of the Lac Tanned but his/her son makes it assassinate a few months later. Ethiopia sinks in anarchy.

July 1st: To the Congo, the priestess Beatrice (Kimpa Vita), made captive, is condemned to died and is burned for heresy.

Colony of the Cape: Revolt of 63 colonists against the methods of government and the corruption of the governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel. They obtain its reference in 1707. European immigration in the colony is stopped.

Asia

November 15th: The 6th dalaï LAMA Tsangyang Gyatso, invited in China, dies at the time of its voyage. He would have been shown of imposture and is exiled. Mongolian Qoshot, supported by the emperor Kangxi occupies the central Tibet then. A civil war develops with the Tibet to which the China will put an end (1720).

the khan of the Oïrat Tchewang Rabden crosses the area of the Kokonor and occupies the Tibet.

India

the Marathes devastate the Gujerat. Badora is put at bag. An army marathe, which attacks the imperial camp with Ahmadnagar (May) is pushed back with difficulties.
Boureau-Deslande, the son-in-law of François Martin, founds a French counter with Chandernagor.
Put in liquidation, the French Compagnie of the Eastern Indies is taken again by a group of ship-owners of Saint-Malo.

Europe

December 9th: Beginning of the reign of the king Jean V of Portugal ( Joao V ) (fine in 1750). It founds an absolutist mode, on the model of that of Louis XIV. The gold of the Brésil, of which it perceives the fifth, gives him the means of them. It obtains the Holy See the title of patriarch for the Very-Faithful bishop of Lisbon and that of for him.

Second War of North

February 13rd: Swedish Victoire on the Russian and the Saxon ones of Auguste II at the time of the Battle of Fraustadt (Fraustadt-on-L' Oder).
August 5th: Charles XII of Sweden passes by again the the Vistula, then conquers the Saxony and Leipzig.
September 24th: Peace of Altranstädt between the Sweden and Auguste II of Saxony which gives up Russian alliance and the throne of Poland. Stanislas Leszczynski is recognized by the European powers king de Pologne. A Saxon party perdure however in Poland. Charles XII, at the top of his capacity, turns to the Russia.
October 19th: battle of Kalisz.
October: Russians and Saxon beat a Swedish army close to Kiev.

War of succession of Spain

Attempts at general offensive of Louis XIV.
January 6th: The French of the duke of Berwick take Nice with the States of Savoy after a one month old seat. The castle of the city will be destroyed.
April: The English manage to break the seat posed by the French in front of Barcelona since the last months of 1705.
April 19th: French Victoire against the Savoy with the Battle of Calcinato.
April 29th: The voters of Bavaria and Cologne, combined France, are put at the round of applause of the empire and stripped their states by the emperor.
May 12th: Philippe V of Spain and the marshal of Tessé raises the seat of Barcelona. The Catalogne is opened with “Charles III”, wire of Léopold I {{er}} which, Master of Valences, the Aragon, the Balearic Islands, the Milanais and the Netherlands is proclaimed king with Madrid (June 28th).
May 14th: Head office of Turin
May 23rd: Conquest of the Belgium by John Churchill on behalf of the archduke Charles. Divert French Villeroy at the time of the Bataille of Ramillies. The French must evacuate most of the occupied territories in the Netherlands.
August 3rd: Berwick, with the favor of a popular rising, dislodges the allies of Madrid then of Castille.
September 7th: Eugene of Savoy demolishes the Spanish French, and the Bavarois with the head office of Turin. As of the advertisement of this reverse, Louis XIV orders (too quickly) the withdrawal of its troops of Italy and tries to negotiate a peace, without success.
November - December: French and Spaniards are driven out of Modena and Guastala. The Spain loses its Italian possessions.

France

Be: Heat wave in France.
July: With Paris, the price of wheat is very low; 9 books the setier.
September: Early grape harvest in the North of France.
November: Edict which allots the nobility to the aldermen of Paris.
December 31st: This year is remembered by an intense military activity and one notes the production in twelve months of 13 445 “minutes” (orders, reports/ratios, directives…) emanating from the secretariat of the French War. It is the record of the kind which does not prevent year 1706 from being catastrophic from a military point of view.

Religion

the bubble Universi Dominis Gregis condemns the proposals Jansénistes extracted works of Pasquier Quesnel.

Art & culture

Science & technology

Creation of the first military hospital with Moscow (school of surgery, cabinet of anatomy, botanical garden).
Creation of pharmacies of State to Saint-Pétersbourg, Kazan and Rīga.

Economy & company

Russia

Encouragement of the breeding of the sheep in the area of Poltava.
Construction of channels to connect the the Ural and the area of Moscow to Saint-Pétersbourg, of 1706 with 1730: side channel with the Lake Ladoga, channel Vychni Volotchek.
At the instigation of the tsar, the métropolite of Novgorod founds an asylum for the abandoned poor.

Births in 1706

January 17th: Benjamin Franklin, statesman, physicist, philosopher and American publicity agent († 1790).
April 24th: Giovanni Battista Martini, musician Italy N († 1790).
June 10th: John Dollond, optician English.
December 17th: Emilie of Châtelet, woman of letters and scientific French († 1749).

Death in 1706

March 3rd: Johann Pachelbel, German musician (° 1653)
December 28th: Pierre Bayle, philosopher and critical French, who proposes a true theory of the tolerance (° 1647)
December 31st: François Martin, governor of Pondichéry. (° 1634)

Easter Day

April 4th: Sunday of Easter.
For other religious holidays, to see Comput.

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