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1706| 1689–1724 | UK [horse-racing] | The Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arab, the horses from which all modern thoroughbreds are descended in the male line, are imported to England from the Middle East and north Africa. | | 17 January 1706 | America [births and deaths] | Benjamin Franklin, North American printer, publisher, and inventor who helped to draft the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution, born in Boston, Massachusetts (–1790). | | 3 March 1706 | Germany [births and deaths] | Johann Pachelbel, German organ composer, known particularly for his Canon in D Major, dies in Nuremberg, Germany (53). | | 27 June 1706 | UK, Portugal, Spain [War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)] | British and Portuguese forces enter the Spanish capital, Madrid, marking a high point of success for the Grand Alliance (Britain, the United Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, and Savoy) in the War of the Spanish Succession in the Iberian Peninsula, but the occupation is to be short-lived. | | 24 September 1706 | Sweden, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire, Germany, Poland [treaties] | The Peace of Altrandstädt is made between Sweden and Saxony; King Augustus II the Strong of Sweden renounces the Polish throne and recognizes Stanislaw Leszczynski, the pro-Swedish nominee, as king. |
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