Literature year 1706

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Literature year 1706
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)	Johann Caspar Füssli (1706–1782). Portrayed by Anton Graff , 1752
Johann Rudolf Kiesling (1706–1778)	Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788): Madame du Châtelet – Laumont (1706–1749)
John Evelyn (1620-1706)	Petrus van Mastricht (1630–1706)

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

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

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
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

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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0January 3 : Johann Caspar Füssli , Swiss painter and writer († 1782 )

0January 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 )

0April 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 )

0November 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

Pierre Bayle , portrait by Pierre Savart (1774)

Toda Mosui's grave in the Sensō-ji cemetery

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 )
0March 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 )
0December 2 : Johann Georg Ahle , German composer, organist, poet and Protestant church musician (* 1651 )
0December 3 : Aemilie Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , German poet (* 1637 )
0December 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.

[1] Spencer C. Tucker: Battles That Changed History: An Encyclopedia of World Conflict. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2010, p. 221 ff.

[2] Samuel Johnson : Lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. William Glowes and Sons, London 1791, p. 207.

[3] David Fairer: English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700–1789. Pearson Education, Longman, Harlow, et al. a. 2002, p. 241.

[4] Ifor Evans : History of English Literature. CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09324-8 , p. 149.

[5] Ifor Evans: History of English Literature. CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09324-8 , p. 176.

[6] John Thomas Gilbert: A history of the city of Dublin. James McGlashan, Dublin et al. a. 1854, p. 243.

[7] On naming: Jim Bernhard: Porcupine, Picayune, & Post: How Newspapers Get Their Names. University of Missouri Press, Columbia 2007, p. 15.

[8] 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.

[9] 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.

[10] 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.