1716
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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 - Tugaloo Massacre changes the course of the Yamasee War.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
[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 |
| Chinese calendar | 4352/4412-12-7 (乙未年十二月初七日) — to — 4353/4413-11-18(丙申年十一月十八日) |
| 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) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2376 (皇紀2376年) |
| Julian calendar | 1761 |
| Korean calendar | 4049 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2259 |
- 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
- Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (died 1795)
- 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)
- See also Category: 1716 births.
[edit] 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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