1716 in Great Britain

1716 in Great Britain:

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Events from the year 1716 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - King George I

Events

• January - The Duke of Argyll disperses the remainder of the Jacobite troops.
• 10 February - The pretender James Francis Edward Stuart flees to France. He dismisses Lord Bolingbroke as his secretary of state.
• 24 February - Execution of the Jacobite leaders James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater and William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure.
• 26 April - Septennial Act 1715 comes into effect, extending the maximum duration of Parliaments from three years to seven.

Undated

• A fire in Wapping destroys 150 houses.
• William Wake enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Publications

• Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor's pamphlet A Preservative against the Principles and Practices of Non-Jurors, both in Church and State, initiating the Bangorian Controversy in the Church of England.

Births

• 26 January - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, soldier and politician (died 1785)
• 23 June - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, politician (died 1789)
• 6 October - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, statesman (died 1771)
• 26 December - Thomas Gray, writer (died 1771)

Deaths

• 1 January - William Wycherley, playwright (born c.1640)
• 24 February
  • James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, (born 1689)
  • William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure, (born c. 1672)
• 14 April - Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, admiral (born c.1648)
• 26 April - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1651)
• 5 June - Roger Cotes, mathematician and philosopher (born 1682)
• 28 June - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, general (born 1665)
• 8 July - Robert South, churchman (born 1634)
• 28 October - Stephen Fox, politician (born 1627)