1716 Events January–June January - The town of Crieff , Scotland, is burned to the ground by Jacobites returning from the Battle of Sheriffmuir . January 16 - The application of the Nueva Planta decrees to Catalonia 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 . January 27 - The Tugaloo Massacre changes the course of the Yamasee War . 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 . May - John Law founds the Banque Générale . 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.July–December 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 siege to Corfu , the last bastion of the Republic of Venice in the Greek islands. 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 . August 24 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor , returns from Italy. November 9 - Caroline of Ansbach , Princess of Wales, gives birth to a stillborn son in London. 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 Gardens at St. James's, London, which destroyed the French Chapel there and which was put out by several rescuers, including the future King George II . 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 .Date unknown English pirate Edward Teach sloop in the Bahamas . Natchez , one of the oldest towns on the Mississippi River , is founded. Tsar Peter the Great of Russia 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. Births January 1 - Joshua Loring , colonial American captain in British service January 4 - Aaron Burr, Sr ., President of Princeton University January 11 - Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Normanby , English nobleman January 12 - Antonio de Ulloa , Spanish general and scientist January 15 * Philip Livingston , American politician * Pierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet , French scientist January 20 * King Charles III of Spain * Jean-Jacques Barthélemy , French writer and numismatist * Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti , German architect January 26 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville , British Army general January 30 - Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz , Swedish architect and civil servant February 2 - David Graeme , British Army general February 4 - José Solís Folch de Cardona , Spanish colonial governor February 8 - Pasquale Cafaro , Italian composer February 9 - Mary Palmer , English writer February 23 - Antoine-Joseph Pernety , French writer March 6 - Pehr Kalm , Finnish scientist March 13 - Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia March 18 - Friedrich Wilhelm, Graf von Wylich und Lottum , Prussian army officer March 19 - Guillaume Coustou the Younger , French artist March 21 - Josef Seger , Czech composer and organist April 1 - Morgan Rhys , Welsh hymn-writer April 5 - Jeremiah Theus , American artist April 12 - Felice Giardini , Italian composer, violinist April 24 - Johann Georg Weishaupt , German lawyer May 2 - Infante Carlos of Portugal , Portuguese infante May 8 - James Wright , Governor of Georgia May 20 - Friedrich Samuel Bock , German philosopher and theologian May 24 - Constantine, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg May 28 - Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet , British politician and member of the English gentry May 29 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton , French scientist June 10 - Carl Gustaf Ekeberg , Swedish explorer June 18 * Charles Edzard, Prince of East Frisia * Joseph-Marie Vien , French painter June 23 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley June 25 - Johann Baptist Babel , Swiss sculptor June 26 - Charles-Nicolas d'Oultremont , Roman Catholic bishop June 27 - Louise Diane d'Orléans , last child of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans July 3 - Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch , German Prince-Bishop July 14 - Michael Schlatter , American clergyman July 17 - William Errington , British priest July 22 - Jan Jakub Zamoyski , Polish noble August 2 - Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Baron Edgcumbe , British baron, politician August 4 - Sir John Dashwood-King, 3rd Baronet , English country gentleman August 8 * Andrea Spagni , Italian theologian * Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley , British politician August 15 - Karl Joseph von Firmian , Austrian diplomat August 18 - Johan Maurits Mohr , Dutch-German pastor and astronomer August 30 - Capability Brown , British landscape architect September 2 - Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu , French engraver September 6 - Charles Bennet, 3rd Earl of Tankerville , British Earl September 16 - Angelo Maria Amorevoli , Italian musician September 19 - Jan Jacob Schultens , Dutch linguist October 1 - Benjamin Waller , American politician October 3 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria , Italian physicist October 4 - James Lind , Scottish physician October 5 - Alexei Senyavin , Russian admiral October 6 - George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax , British statesman October 8 - Gaspar of Braganza, Archbishop of Braga , Portuguese clergyman October 16 - Lord Augustus FitzRoy , Royal Navy officer during the October 26 - Charles Christian Erdmann, Duke of Württemberg-Oels November 1 * William Foye , Canadian politician * Joseph Dinouart , French preacher November 4 - Wilhelm von Knyphausen , Prussian soldier November 16 - John Monro , British physician of Bethlem Hospital November 26 - Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland , British duchess; Lady of the Bedchamber December 1 - Étienne Maurice Falconet , French artist December 7 - Henry Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode , German politician, canon, provost and author of numerous hymns December 12 - Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau , Margravine of Brandenburg-Schwedt December 16 * Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli , Swiss agronomist * Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini , French diplomat and writer December 23 - Johann Heinrich Rolle , German baroque composer December 25 - Johann Jakob Reiske , German scholar December 26 * Thomas Gray , English poet, historian * Jean François de Saint-Lambert , French noble December 27 - Leonardo Ximenes , Italian mathematician approximate date * Arnarsaq , Inuit translator, interpreter and missionary * Catherine Théot , French visionary * Anna Margareta Salmelin , Finnish prisoner of warDeaths January 1 - William Wycherley , English playwright January 18 - Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet , English politician January 30 - Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien , French-born Polish consort to King John III Sobieski February 2 - Juan Domingo de Zuñiga y Fonseca , Spanish Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands February 19 - Dorothe Engelbretsdotter , Norway's first professional female author March 26 - Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , German book publisher March 28 - John Vesey , Irish archbishop April 14 - Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington , British admiral April 26 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers , Lord Chancellor of England April 28 - Saint Louis de Montfort , author, True Devotion to Mary April 29 - Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet , English politician May 11 - Francis de Geronimo , Italian priest June 2 - Ogata Kōrin , Japanese painter June 5 - Roger Cotes , English mathematician and philosopher June 8 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine June 9 - Banda Bahadur , Sikh military commander June 19 - Tokugawa Ietsugu , 7th Tokugawa shogunate of Japan June 28 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland , English general July 8 - Robert South , English churchman July 9 - Joseph Sauveur , French mathematician July 14 - Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield , English peer July 26 - Paolo Alessandro Maffei , Italian antiquarian, humanist August 5 - Silahtar Ali Pasha , Ottoman grand vizier August 6 - Frederick Augustus, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt September 25 - Johann Christoph Pez , German composer October 17 - Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton , Scottish peeress October 28 - Stephen Fox , English politician October 10 - Anton Egon, Prince of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg , Governor of the Electorate of Saxony November 2 - Engelbert Kaempfer , German traveler, physician November 9 - Maria , Curaçaoan slave rebel leader November 14 - Gottfried Leibniz , German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician November 22 - Inaba Masamichi , Japanese daimyō November 26 - Nils Bielke , member of the High Council of Sweden November 29 - Ofspring Blackall , Bishop of Exeter December 13 - Charles de La Fosse , French painter December 14 - William Trumbull , English diplomat and politician date unknown * Stefano Erardi , Maltese painter * Lalla Aisha Mubarka , Empress of Morocco
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