1706

Events 
 September 7 – War of Spanish Succession – The armies of Austria and Savoy defeat the French army at the Battle of Turin.

 Births 
 January 17 – Benjamin Franklin, American philosopher, founding father and inventor (d. 1790)

 Deaths 
 March 3 – Johann Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1653)
 December 9 – King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)