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What Happened in January 1706

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Famous Birthdays

  • Jan 7 Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Jan 17 US Founding Father, inventor, ambassador and writer (Poor Richards Almanac), born in Boston, Massachusetts

Benjamin Franklin
  • Jan 28 John Baskerville, English printer and type designer (printer to the University of Cambridge), baptized in Wolverley, Worcestershire, England (d. 1775)
Born in 1706

Famous Deaths

  • Jan 21 Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic, dies at 56
  • Jan 26 Guillaume Poitevin, French serpent (now obscure bass wind instrument) player, maître de chapelle and composer, dies at 59
  • Jan 29 Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)


What Happened in 1706

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