1716
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| Decades: | 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s |
| Years: | 1713 1714 1715 - 1716 - 1717 1718 1719 |
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| Countries: Canada - Great Britain - Mexico |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
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Year 1716 (MDCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1716
[edit] January - June
- January 27 - The Tugaloo Massacre changes the course of the Yamasee War.
- 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.
[edit] 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: 40,000 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.
[edit] Undated
- 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.
- The Kangxi Dictionary is published, laying the foundation of most references to Han characters studies nowadays.
- A fire in Wapping, England destroys 150 houses.
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1716 MDCCXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2469 |
| Armenian calendar | 1165 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -128 – -127 |
| Berber calendar | 2666 |
| 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 | 1771 – 1772 |
| - 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) |
| Korean calendar | 4049 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2259 |
- 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)
[edit] 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)
- 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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