1706 in literature

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The year 1706 in literature involved some significant events.

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 under the Duke of Marlborough, inspires several poets.
c. September - Daniel Defoe is sent to Edinburgh as a government agent.
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
John Philips - Cerealia: An imitation of Milton
Matthew Prior - The Squirrel
Jonathan Swift - Baucis and Philemon
Thomas Tickell - Oxford
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
Isaac Watts - Horae Lyricae^[3]

January 17 - Benjamin Franklin, polymath (died 1790)
January 28 - John Baskerville, printer (died 1775)
November 8 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, philosopher (died 1772)
November 14 - Benjamin Hoadly, Anglican bishop, initiator of the Bangorian controversy (died 1761)
December 17 - Émilie du Châtelet, French writer and translator (died 1749)

January - Ned Kynaston, actor (born c.1640)
January 21 - Adrien Baillet, French critic (born 1649)
February 27 - John Evelyn, diarist (born 1620)
August 6 - Jean-Baptiste du Hamel, natural philosopher (born 1624)
December 8 - Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye, historian (born 1634)
December 28 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (born 1647)
date unknown
- John Phillips, 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)

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