1716

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January 16 – Application of Nueva Planta decrees to Catalonia, making it subject to the laws of the Crown of Castile, concluding the unification of Spain under Philip V.^[1]
January 27 – The Tugaloo Massacre changes the course of the Yamasee War.
February 10 – James Edward Stuart flees from Scotland to France with a handful of supporters following failure of the Jacobite Rebellion.
February 24 – Execution of the Jacobite leaders James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater and William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure.^[2]
May – John Law founds the Banque de France.
May 26 – Two regular companies of field artillery, each 100 men strong, are raised at Woolwich by Royal Warrant of King George I of Great Britain.
May 28 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, suffers a paralytic stroke.

Pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach) raids shipping in the Caribbean.
Natchez, one of the oldest towns on the Mississippi, is founded.
The town of Crieff, Scotland, is burned to the ground by Jacobites returning from the Battle of Sheriffmuir.
A fire in Wapping, England destroys 150 houses.
Tsar Peter the Great of Russia studies with the physician Herman Boerhaave at Leiden University.
The Kangxi Dictionary is published, laying the foundation of most references to Han characters studied today.

January 12 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (d. 1795)
January 15 – Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1778)
January 20
- Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795)
- King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
January 26 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (d. 1785)
March 6 – Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)
May 29 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (d. 1800)
June 18 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (d. 1809)
June 23 – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (d. 1789)
October 3 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
October 6 – George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)
November 4 – Wilhelm von Knyphausen, Hessian Lieutenant-General (d. 1800)
December 16 – Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798)
December 25 – Johann Jacob Reiske, German scholar and physician (d. 1774)
December 26
- Thomas Gray, English writer (d. 1771)
- Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (d. 1803)
Eugenios Voulgaris, Greek educator

January 1 – William Wycherley, English playwright (b. c. 1640)
April 14 – Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral (b. c. 1648)
April 26 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
April 28 – Saint Louis de Montfort, author, True Devotion to Mary
June 2 – Ogata Korin, Japanese painter (b. c. 1657)
June 5 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1682)
June 8 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
June 9 – Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed) (b. 1670)
June 28 – George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
July 8 – Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
August 5 – Silahtar Ali Pasha, Ottoman (Turkish) grand vizier (b. 1667)
October 28 – Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627)
November 2 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German traveler and physician (b. 1651)
November 14 – Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician (b. 1646)
December 13 – Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)

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