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).

Events of 1716

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.

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.

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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