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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).

Contents

Events of

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Events of

January - June

★ January 27 - Tugaloo Massacre changes the course of the Yamasee War.

July - December

★ August 5 - In the Battle of Peterwardein 40.000 Austrian troops of Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat 150,000 Ottoman Turks under Darnad Ali Pasha

Undated

★ Pirate Edward Teach the "Blackbeard" raids shipping in the Caribbean.

★ Natchez, one of the oldest towns on the Mississippi, is founded.

★ Crieff, Scotland is burned to the ground in revenge for the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Sheriffmuir.

★ Kangxi Dictionary is published this year. This dictionary lays the foundation of most references to Han characters studies nowadays.

★ A fire in Wapping in England destroys 150 houses.

Ongoing events

★ Great Northern War (1700-1721)

Births

★ January 12 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (died 1795)

★ January 15 - Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1778)

★ January 20

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★ Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (died 1795)

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★ King Charles III of Spain (died 1788)

★ January 26 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (died 1785)

★ March 6 - Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (died 1779)

★ May 29 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (died 1800)

★ June 18 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (died 1809)

★ June 23 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (died 1789)

★ October 3 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (died 1781)

★ October 6 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (died 1771)

★ November 4 - Wilhelm von Knyphausen, Hessian Lieutenant-General (died 1800)

★ December 16 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (died 1798)

★ December 25 - Johann Jacob Reiske, German scholar and physician (died 1774)

★ December 26 - Thomas Gray, English writer (died 1771)

★ December 26 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (died 1803)
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Deaths

★ January 1 - William Wycherley, English playwright (born c.1640)

★ April 14 - Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral (born c.1648)

★ April 26 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1651)

★ April 28- Saint Louis de Montfort. author, True Devotion to Mary

★ June 2 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter (born c.1657)

★ June 5 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician and philosopher (born 1682)

★ June 8 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (born 1658)

★ June 9 -- Banda Bahadur , Sikh military commander (executed) (born 1670)

★ June 28 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (born 1665)

★ July 8 - Robert South, English churchman (born 1634)

★ October 28 - Stephen Fox, English politician (born 1627)

★ November 2 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German traveler and physician (born 1651)

★ November 14 - Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician (born 1646)

★ December 13 - Charles de La Fosse, French painter (born 1640)
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