Literature year 1706
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Overview of the literary
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Johann Rudolf Kiesling (1706–1778)
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John Evelyn (1620-1706)
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Petrus van Mastricht (1630–1706)
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Events
- May 23 : The Battle of Ramillies , a military victory by the British Forces led by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough in the War of Spanish Succession, inspires several English poets.
- George Farquhar (1678-1707) wrote the comedy The Recruiting Officer ( The recruiter ), he in the levy of recruits parodied in a small town.
- Daniel Defoe is sent to Edinburgh as a government agent . He also wrote the short story Apparition of Mrs Veal , "which reads like a fantasy product, but is based on the research Defoe had carried out".
- November 5th : The first issue of an Irish newspaper appears in the back lane of the Dublin Gazette thanks to Jonathan Gowan .
- The philosopher Samuel Clarke attacks Henry Dodwell's views on the immortality of the soul.
New releases
prose
- Christian Friedrich Hunold (Menantes) - satyrical novel
- Anonymus - Arabian Nights Entertainments (series, translated from French)
- Daniel Defoe - A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal (attributed to)
- John Philips - Cerealia: An imitation of Milton
- Matthew Prior - The Squirrel
- Jonathan Swift - Baucis and Philemon
- Ned Ward - The London Spy
drama
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George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer premiered in 1706
- Thomas Betterton - The Amorous Widow
- Susanna Centlivre - Love at a Venture
- Colley Cibber - Perolla and Izadora
- Catherine Trotter Cockburn - The Revolution of Sweden
- Antoine Danchet - Cyrus
- Thomas d'Urfey - Wonders in the Sun (Opera)
- George Farquhar - The Recruiting Officer
- George Granville - The British Enchanters, or No Magic Like Love
- Delarivier Manley - Almyna, or The Arabian Vow
- Mary Pix (attributed to) - The Adventures in Madrid
- Nicholas Rowe - Ulysses
- John Vanbrugh - The Mistake
Poetry
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Johann Burckhardt Mencke (1674–1732) published Philander von der Linde's poems in 1706 Schertzhaffte…
- 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
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Daniel Defoe
- Caledonia
- A hymn to peace
- Jure Divino
- The vision
- John Dennis - The Battle of Ramillia
- Johann Burckhardt Mencke (published anonymously) - Philander von der Linde Schertzhaffte poems ...
- William Harison - Woodstock Park
- Isaac Watts - Horae Lyricae
Non-fiction
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Samuel Clarke (1675–1729) published 1706 A Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion
- 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
- John Dennis - Essay on the Operas after the Italian Manner
- Johann Caspar Eberti - opened cabinet of the educated women's room
- White Kennett - The History of England from the Commencement of the Reign of Charles I to the End of William III
- Iljacopyvich - Manuductio in Grammaticam in Slavonico Rosseanam ( Руковедение в грамматыку во славенороссийскую )
- John Locke - Posthumous Works of Mr John Locke
- Simon Ockley - Introductio ad linguas orientales
- Thomas Tickell - Oxford
- Matthew Tindal - The Rights of the Christian Church Asserted
- Levinus Vincent - Wondertooneel of Nature Volume 1 (Volume 2 published in 1715)
Born
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- January 3 : Johann Caspar Füssli , Swiss painter and writer († 1782 )
- January 7th : Johann Heinrich Zedler , bookseller and publisher in Leipzig († 1751 )
- January 17 : Benjamin Franklin , New England printer, publisher, writer, scientist, inventor and statesman. († 1790 )
- January 28 : John Baskerville , printer and typographer († 1775 )
- April 6 : Louis de Cahusac , French playwright and librettist († 1759 )
- April 11 : Christian Ludwig Taddel , German administrative lawyer and poet († 1775 )
- June 22nd : Johann Christoph Pohl , German physician and author († 1780 )
- July 27 : Heinrich Lindenborn , Rhenish journalist, satirist and hymn poet († 1750 )
- October 21 : Johann Rudolf Kiesling , German Lutheran theologian and orientalist († 1778 )
- November 8 : Johann Ulrich von Cramer , German philosopher and lawyer († 1772 )
- November 14 : Benjamin Hoadly , Anglican bishop, initiator of the Bangorian controversy († 1761 )
- December 17 : Émilie du Châtelet , French mathematician, physicist, philosopher and translator of the early Enlightenment and friend of Voltaire († 1749 )
- December 19 : Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron , French man of letters and writer († 1760 )
- December 19 : Christian Knauthe , Oberlausitz historical researcher and pastor in Friedersdorf († 1784 )
- exact date unknown: George Ballard , English antiquarian and biographer ( Memoirs of British Ladies ) († 1755 )
- exact date unknown: Antoni Fiter i Rossell , Andorran lawyer and author († 1748 )
Died
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Pierre Bayle , portrait by Pierre Savart (1774)
- January: Ned Kynaston , English actor (* around 1640)
- January 21 : Adrien Baillet , French critic (* 1649 )
- February 10 : Petrus van Mastricht , German philologist and Reformed theologian (* 1630 )
- February 12 : Balthasar Kindermann , German poet (* 1636 )
- February 27 : John Evelyn , diary author, architect and horticulturist (* 1620 )
- March 6 : Christian Gryphius , German pedagogue and school dramatist and son of the baroque poet Andreas Gryphius (* 1649 )
- May 10 : Simon Rettenpacher , Latin- and German-speaking playwright, poet and chronicler (* 1634 )
- August 6 : Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel , French philosopher (* 1624 )
- September 27th : August Adolph von Haugwitz , German lyric poet and dramatist of the Baroque period (* 1647 )
- December 2 : Johann Georg Ahle , German composer, organist, poet and Protestant church musician (* 1651 )
- December 3 : Aemilie Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , German poet (* 1637 )
- December 8 : Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye , French historian (* 1634 )
- December 28th : Pierre Bayle , French philosopher and writer (* 1647 )
- exact date unknown: John Phillips , satirist (* 1631 )
- exact date unknown: Abraham Miguel Cardozo , Spanish-Jewish religious philosopher, mystic and Sabbatian (* 1626 )
- exact date unknown: Francis Fuller , English medical writer, one of the fathers of exercise therapy (* 1670 )
- exact date unknown: Maurus Rost , German Benedictine, abbot of the Iburg monastery and historian († 1633 )
- exact date unknown: Toda Mosui , Japanese samurai, Waka poet and Kokugaku scholar (* 1629 )
- exact date unknown: Guillaume Vandive , French printer and dealer (* 1680 )
Web links
Commons : Literary Works of 1706 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
- Austrian newspapers from 1706 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Spencer C. Tucker: Battles That Changed History: An Encyclopedia of World Conflict. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2010, p. 221 ff.
- ^ Samuel Johnson : Lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. William Glowes and Sons, London 1791, p. 207.
- ^ David Fairer: English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700–1789. Pearson Education, Longman, Harlow, et al. a. 2002, p. 241.
- ^ Ifor Evans : History of English Literature. CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09324-8 , p. 149.
- ^ Ifor Evans: History of English Literature. CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09324-8 , p. 176.
- ^ John Thomas Gilbert: A history of the city of Dublin. James McGlashan, Dublin et al. a. 1854, p. 243.
- ↑ On naming: Jim Bernhard: Porcupine, Picayune, & Post: How Newspapers Get Their Names. University of Missouri Press, Columbia 2007, p. 15.
- ↑ Jim Symth: No remedy more proper. Anglo-Irish unionism before 1707. In: Brendan Bradshaw / Peter Roberts (eds.): British Consciousness and Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533–1707. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, pp. 301-320.
- ↑ German poetry from the baroque to the present. Published by Gerhard Hay and Sibylle von Steinsdorff , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-02077-6 , pp. 33f. and p. 325.
- ^ Isabel Rivers: Watts, Isaac (1674-1748) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. 2004. doi : 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 28888 . Retrieved November 26, 2012.