1706 in England

1706 Events from the year 1706 in England. Incumbents Monarch – Anne Events February – Regency Act (backdated to 1705) requires the senior officers of state to proclaim the next Protestant heir (at this time, Sophia of Hanover) as successor to the English throne on the death of Queen Anne.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 204–205 0-7126-5616-2 8 April – George Farquhar's play The Recruiting Officer first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8Corin Redgrave Corin Redgrave My season with Sam The Independent 2003-09-11 2011-01-15 https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/my-season-with-sam-579494.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/my-season-with-sam-579494.html 2022-05-01 subscription liveAugust 2021 medicmedic 11 May – War of the Spanish Succession: British troops relieve Barcelona from a French siege. 23 May – War of the Spanish Succession: English troops led by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough together with Dutch and German troops defeat the French at the Battle of Ramillies.The Pocket Date Book https://archive.org/details/pocketdatebooko00categoog London Chapman and Hall William L. R. Cates William Leist Readwin Cates 1863 22 July – Treaty of Union provides for England and Scotland to be merged into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. 21 August – War of the Spanish Succession: Franco-Spanish assault on the British colony at Charleston, South Carolina repelled. October Opening of the Twinings tea shop in London, still open as of the 21st century.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750 Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750 2007-08-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20070817164123/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750 17 August 2007 Henry G. Button Andrew P. Lampert The Guinness Book of the Business World Enfield Guinness Superlatives 1976 0-900424-32-X The predecessors of food manufacturers Crosse & Blackwell set up business in London. undated Literacy test for Benefit of clergy abolished, making the benefit available to all first-time offenders of lesser felonies.Briggs John Crime and punishment in England: an introductory history https://archive.org/details/crimepunishmente00brig limited 1996 UCL Press London 1-85728-153-5 74 The first turnpike trust is established by Act of Parliament, which appoints 32 independent local trustees to oversee the maintenance and management of the road between Fonthill in Bedfordshire and Stony Stratford in Buckinghamshire. Isaac Watts' verses Horae Lyricae published.Isabel Rivers Watts, Isaac (1674–1748) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28888 2011-12-09 10.1093/ref:odnb/28888 Births 10 February – Benjamin Hoadly, physician and dramatist (died 1757) 6 March – George Pocock, admiral (died 1792) 10 June – John Dollond, optician (died 1761) Deaths 29 January – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, poet and courtier (born 1638) 27 February – John Evelyn, writer, gardener and diarist (born 1620) Byerley Turk, thoroughbred stallion (born c. 1684) References 1706 Category:Years of the 18th century in England England