1716

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

1716 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1716 MDCCXVI
Ab urbe condita	2469
Armenian calendar	1165 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	6466
Balinese saka calendar	1637–1638
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 (Wood Goat) 4413 or 4206 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4414 or 4207
Coptic calendar	1432–1433
Discordian calendar	2882
Ethiopian calendar	1708–1709
Hebrew calendar	5476–5477
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1772–1773
- Shaka Samvat	1637–1638
- Kali Yuga	4816–4817
Holocene calendar	11716
Igbo calendar	716–717
Iranian calendar	1094–1095
Islamic calendar	1128–1129
Japanese calendar	Shōtoku 6 / Kyōhō1 (享保元年)
Javanese calendar	1639–1640
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4049
Minguo calendar	196 before ROC 民前196年
Nanakshahi calendar	248
Thai solar calendar	2258–2259
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1842 or 1461 or 689 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1843 or 1462 or 690

January–March

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January 16 – The application of the Nueva Planta decreestoCatalonia make it subject to the laws of the Crown of Castile, and abolishes the Principality of Catalonia as a political entity, concluding the unification of Spain under Philip V.^[1]
January 27 – The Tugaloo massacre changes the course of the Yamasee War, allying the Cherokee nation with the British province of South Carolina against the Creek Indian nation. ^[2]
January 28 – The town of Crieff, Scotland, is burned to the ground by Jacobites returning from the Battle of Sheriffmuir. ^[3] ^[4]
February 3 – The 1716 Algiers earthquake sequence began with an M_w  7.0 mainshock that caused severe damage and killed 20,000 in Algeria.^[5]
February 10 – James Edward Stuart flees from Scotland to France with a handful of supporters, following the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715.
February 24 – Jacobite leaders James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater and William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure are executed in London.^[6]
March 6 – At night, an aurora borealis was seen throughout Europe, from Ireland to Italy.^[7]^[8]
March 8 – King Charles XII of Sweden leads an invasion of Norway, crossing the border at Basmo, near the modern-day town of Marker.
March 10 – Simon Fraser, a former Scottish rebel who had helped end the Siege of Inverness during the first Jacobite rising, is given a pardon by King George I of Great Britain. ^[9]
March 18 – Italian Jesuit missionary Ippolito Desideri arrives in Lhasa to become one of the first Europeans to attempt to bring Christianity to Buddhist Tibet. ^[10]
March 23 – Jeremias III becomes the new Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church.

April–June

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April 13 – Austria, ruled by King Charles VI, renews its alliance with the Republic of Venice, leading the Ottoman Empire, ruled by Ahmed III, to declare war.
May 20 – John Law founds the Banque Générale PrivéeinParis.^[11]
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.
June 9 – In India, 600 imprisoned members of the failed Sikh Khalsa rebellion against the Mughal Empire are executed on orders of the Emperor Farrukhsiyar.^[12] Banda Singh Bahadur, leader of the rebellion, is brutally tortured and mutilated before being killed.^[13]
June 19 – The new Tokugawa Shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshimune, assumes control of the monarchy's military after the illness and death of the six-year-old Ietsugu, last of the male descendants of Tokugawa Ieyasu.^[14] Yoshimune's ascendancy begins Year 1 of the Kyōhō Era, which continues until Year 21 in 1736.
June 25 – With the Holy Roman Empire having been ceded the "Southern Netherlands" (now Belgium) from Spain, Prince Eugene of Savoy arrives in Brussels as the first Governor-General of the Austrian Netherlands. Eugene soon returns home and leaves administration of the area to a dictatorial Hercule-Louis Turinetti.^[15]

July–September

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July 5 – Prince Ernest Augustus is created Duke of York and Albany, in the peerage of Great Britain.
July 8 – The Battle of Dynekilen: The Swedish fleet is defeated by a Danish–Norwegian fleet.
July 8–August 21 – Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Empire unsuccessfully lays siegetoCorfu, the last bastion of the Republic of Venice in the Greek islands.^[16]
August 3 – Natchez, one of the oldest towns on the Mississippi River, is founded by French civilians at the site of Fort Rosalie. ^[17]
August 4 – George Seton, 5th Earl of Winton, under sentence of death for his part in the Jacobite rising of 1715, escapes from the Tower of London and flees into exile on the continent.
August 5 – Battle of Petrovaradin: 83,300 Austrian troops of Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat 150,000 Ottoman Turks under Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha (who is killed).
August 24 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, returns from Italy.
September 15 – "Maria", an African slave of the Dutch West India Company on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, murders the plantation overseer, Christiaan Muller, then leads a rebellion, killing Muller's family and much of the white staff on the company's plantation. The uprising is suppressed after 10 days, and Maria is later executed by burning at the stake on November 9. ^[18]
September 26 – Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, eldest son of the Tsar Peter the Great and heir to the throne, flees from Saint Petersburg with his mistress, Efrosinya Fedorova, along with her brother and three servants. After spending more than a year in Austria, he returns to Russia where he is arrested and dies in prison in 1718. ^[19] ^[20]

October–December

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October 12 – During the war between the Habsburg Empire ruling Austria and the Ottoman Empire ruling Turkey, the six week siege of the fortified city of Temeşvar is surrendered by the Turks to the Austrians. Under a flag of truce, the Turks are permitted to depart but have to leave behind their artillery as they give up their claim to Hungary. Austro-Hungarian rule lasts until World War One, and in 1919, the city of Timișoara becomes part of the Kingdom of Romania.
November 1 – Two new laws go into effect in the HighlandsofScotland to prevent a threat to Britain's ruling House of Hanover by the Jacobites who supported the restoration of the House of Stuart. The Disarming Act requires government authorization to carry swords and firearms, and the amendments to the Treason Act 1714 permit trials for treason to take place in any court in England, regardless of where the crime was committed.
December 4 – Fifty people are killed, and 150 houses burned, when a fire breaks out in Wapping, London. The blaze comes two days after a fire at the Spring GardensatSt. James's, London, which destroyed the French Chapel there and which was put out by several rescuers, including the future King George II.^[21]
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. This is a move towards the Whig Split of 1717.

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English pirate Edward Teach (Blackbeard) is given command of a sloopinthe Bahamas.^[22]
Tsar Peter the GreatofRussia 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

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January 1 – Joshua Loring, colonial American captain in British service (d. 1781), Gaspar de Portola, Spanish California Expedition (d.1786)
January 4 – Aaron Burr Sr., President of Princeton University (d. 1757)
January 11 – Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English nobleman (d. 1735)
January 12 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and scientist (d. 1795)
January 15
- Philip Livingston, American politician (d. 1778)
- Pierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet, French scientist (d. 1796)

Charles III of Spain

January 20
- King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
- Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795)
- Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti, German architect (d. 1782)
January 26 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British Army general (d. 1785)
January 30 – Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Swedish architect and civil servant (d. 1796)

February

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February 2 – David Graeme, British Army general (d. 1797)
February 4 – José Solís Folch de Cardona, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)
February 8 – Pasquale Cafaro, Italian composer (d. 1787)
February 9 – Mary Palmer, English writer (d. 1794)
February 23 – Antoine-Joseph Pernety, French writer (d. 1796)

March

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March 6 – Pehr Kalm, Finnish scientist (d. 1779)
March 13 – Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1801)
March 18 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Graf von Wylich und Lottum, Prussian army officer (d. 1774)
March 19 – Guillaume Coustou the Younger, French artist (d. 1777)
March 21 – Josef Seger, Czech composer and organist (d. 1782)

April

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April 1 – Morgan Rhys, Welsh hymn-writer (d. 1779)
April 5 – Jeremiah Theus, American artist (d. 1774)
April 12 – Felice Giardini, Italian composer, violinist (d. 1796)
April 24 – Johann Georg Weishaupt, German lawyer (d. 1753)

May

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May 2 – Infante Carlos of Portugal, Portuguese infante (prince) (d. 1736)
May 8 – James Wright, Governor of Georgia (d. 1785)
May 20 – Friedrich Samuel Bock, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1785)
May 24 – Constantine, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (d. 1778)
May 28 – Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet, British politician and member of the English gentry (d. 1797)
May 29 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French scientist (d. 1799)

August 30 – Capability Brown, English landscape architect (d. 1783)

September

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September 2 – Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu, French engraver (d. 1791)
September 6 – Charles Bennet, 3rd Earl of Tankerville, British Earl (d. 1767)
September 16 – Angelo Maria Amorevoli, Italian musician (d. 1798)
September 19 – Jan Jacob Schultens, Dutch linguist (d. 1788)
October 1 – Benjamin Waller, American politician (d. 1786)
October 3 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
October 4 – James Lind, Scottish physician (d. 1794)
October 5 – Alexei Senyavin, Russian admiral (d. 1797)
October 6 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, British statesman (d. 1771)
October 8 – Gaspar of Braganza, Archbishop of Braga, Portuguese clergyman (d. 1780)
October 16 – Lord Augustus FitzRoy, Royal Navy officer during the War of the Austrian Succession (d. 1741)
October 26 – Charles Christian Erdmann, Duke of Württemberg-Oels (d. 1792)

November

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November 1
- William Foye, Canadian politician (d. 1771)
- Joseph Dinouart, French preacher (d. 1786)
November 4 – Wilhelm von Knyphausen, Prussian soldier (d. 1800)
November 16 – John Monro, British physician of Bethlem Hospital (d. 1791)
November 26 – Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, British duchess; Lady of the Bedchamber (d. 1776)

December

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December 1 – Étienne Maurice Falconet, French artist (d. 1791)
December 7 – Henry Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode, German politician, canon, provost and author of numerous hymns (d. 1778)
December 12 – Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, Margravine of Brandenburg-Schwedt (d. 1782)
December 16
- Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli, Swiss agronomist (d. 1780)
- Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798)
December 23 – Johann Heinrich Rolle, German baroque composer (d. 1785)
December 25 – Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar (d. 1774)
December 26
- Thomas Gray, English poet, historian (d. 1771)
- Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet, philosopher and military officer (d. 1803)
December 27 – Leonardo Ximenes, Italian mathematician (d. 1786)

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Arnarsaq, Inuit translator, interpreter and missionary (d. after 1771)
Catherine Théot, French visionary (d. 1794)
Anna Margareta Salmelin, Finnish prisoner of war (d. 1789)

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Josip Kazimir Drašković, Croatian General in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) (d. 1765)

January

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January 1 – William Wycherley, English playwright (b. 1641)^[23]
January 18 – Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1640)
January 30 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, French-born Polish consort to King John III Sobieski (b. 1641)

February

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February 2 – Juan Domingo de Zuñiga y Fonseca, Spanish Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (b. 1640)
February 19 – Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norway's first professional female author (b. 1634)

March

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March 26 – Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, German book publisher (b. 1653)
March 28 – John Vesey, Irish archbishop (b. 1638)

April

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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 (b. 1673)
April 29 – Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1655)

May

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May 11 – Francis de Geronimo, Italian priest (b. 1642)
May 14 – Henry Oxburgh, executed Irish Jacobite leader

Painting by Ogata Kōrin.

June

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June 2 – Ogata Kōrin, 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 19 – Tokugawa Ietsugu, 7th Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (b. 1709)
June 28 – George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)

July

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July 8 – Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
July 9 – Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician (b. 1653)
July 14 – Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield, English peer (b. 1663)
July 26 – Paolo Alessandro Maffei, Italian antiquarian, humanist (b. 1653)

August

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August 5 – Silahtar Ali Pasha, Ottoman (Turkish) grand vizier (b. 1667)
August 6 – Frederick Augustus, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt (b. 1654)

September

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September 25 – Johann Christoph Pez, German composer (b. 1664)

October

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October 17 – Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, Scottish peeress (b. 1631)
October 28 – Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627)
October 10 – Anton Egon, Prince of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg, Governor of the Electorate of Saxony (b. 1656)

November

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November 2 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German traveler, physician (b. 1651)
November 9 – Maria, Curaçaoan slave rebel leader

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

November 14 – Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician (b. 1646)
November 22 – Inaba Masamichi, Japanese daimyō (b. 1640)
November 26 – Nils Bielke, member of the High Council of Sweden (b. 1644)
November 29 – Ofspring Blackall, Bishop of Exeter (b. 1655)

December

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December 5 – William Ettrick, English politician (b. 1651)
December 13 – Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)
December 14 – William Trumbull, English diplomat and politician (b. 1639)

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Stefano Erardi, Maltese painter (b. 1630)^[24]
Lalla Aisha Mubarka, Empress of Morocco
Samuel Weston, English politician

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