1716

This article is about the year 1716.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1680s  1690s  1700s  – 1710s –  1720s  1730s  1740s
Years:	1713 1714 1715 – 1716 – 1717 1718 1719

1716 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada – France – Great Britain –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1716 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1716 MDCCXVI
Ab urbe condita	2469
Armenian calendar	1165 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	6466
Bahá'í calendar	-128–-127
Bengali calendar	1123
Berber calendar	2666
British Regnal year	2 Geo. 1 – 3 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar	2260
Burmese calendar	1078
Byzantine calendar	7224–7225
Chinese calendar	乙未年十二月初七日 (4352/4412-12-7) — to — 丙申年十一月十八日 (4353/4413-11-18)
Coptic calendar	1432–1433
Ethiopian calendar	1708–1709
Hebrew calendar	5476–5477
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1772–1773
- Shaka Samvat	1638–1639
- Kali Yuga	4817–4818
Holocene calendar	11716
Iranian calendar	1094–1095
Islamic calendar	1128–1129
Japanese calendar	Shōtoku 6Kyōhō 1 (享保元年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4049
Minguo calendar	196 before ROC 民前196年
Thai solar calendar	2259

Year 1716 (MDCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

July–December

• July 5 – Prince Ernest Augustus is created Duke of York.
• July 8 – Battle of Dynekilen: The Swedish fleet is defeated by a Danish-Norwegian fleet.
• August 5 – Battle of Petrovaradin: 83,300 Austrian troops of Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat 150,000 Ottoman Turks under Damad Ali Pasha.
• August 24 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, returns from Italy.
• November 9 – Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales, gives birth to a stillborn son.
• December 12 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, is demoted from his office as Secretary of State for the Northern Department in the British government and replaced by James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope.

Date unknown

• 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.

Births

• 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

Deaths

• 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)