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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1706.

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 and their allies under the Duke of Marlborough, inspires several poets.
c. September - Daniel Defoe is sent to Edinburgh as a government agent to promote ratification of the Treaty of Union between England and Scotland.
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]
José Tafalla y Negrete - Ramillete poético

January 17 - Benjamin Franklin, American polymath and politician (died 1790)
January 28 - John Baskerville, English printer and typographer (died 1775)
November 8 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German philosopher and jurist (died 1772)
November 14 - Benjamin Hoadly, English controversialist and bishop (died 1761)
December 17 - Émilie du Châtelet, French writer and translator (died 1749)

January 21 – Adrien Baillet, French critic (born 1649)
February 27 – John Evelyn, English diarist (born 1620)
August 6 – Jean-Baptiste du Hamel, French natural philosopher (born 1624)
December 8 – Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye, French historian (born 1634)
December 28 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (born 1647)
Unknown dates
- John Phillips, English satirist (born 1631)
- Guillaume Vandive, French printer and bookseller (born 1680)

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