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1716 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1716
MDCCXVI
Ab urbe condita2469
Armenian calendar1165
ԹՎ ՌՃԿԵ
Assyrian calendar6466
Balinese saka calendar1637–1638
Bengali calendar1123
Berber calendar2666
British Regnal year2 Geo. 1 – 3 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar2260
Burmese calendar1078
Byzantine calendar7224–7225
Chinese calendar乙未年 (Wood Goat)
4412 or 4352
    — to —
丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4413 or 4353
Coptic calendar1432–1433
Discordian calendar2882
Ethiopian calendar1708–1709
Hebrew calendar5476–5477
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1772–1773
 - Shaka Samvat1637–1638
 - Kali Yuga4816–4817
Holocene calendar11716
Igbo calendar716–717
Iranian calendar1094–1095
Islamic calendar1128–1129
Japanese calendarShōtoku 6 / Kyōhō 1
(享保元年)
Javanese calendar1639–1640
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4049
Minguo calendar196 before ROC
民前196年
Nanakshahi calendar248
Thai solar calendar2258–2259
Tibetan calendar阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
1842 or 1461 or 689
    — to —
阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
1843 or 1462 or 690
July 8: The Battle of Dynekilen

1716 (MDCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1716th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 716th year of the 2nd millennium, the 16th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1710s decade. As of the start of 1716, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–March[]

  • 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.[1]
  • January 27 – The Tugaloo massacre changes the course of the Yamasee War, allying the Cherokee nation with the British province of South Carolina against the Creek Indian nation. [2]
  • January 28 – The town of Crieff, Scotland, is burned to the ground by Jacobites returning from the Battle of Sheriffmuir. [3] [4]
  • February 3 – The 1716 Algiers earthquake sequence began with an Mw  7.0 mainshock that caused severe damage and killed 20,000 in Algeria.[5]
  • 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.[6]
  • March 8 – King Charles XII of Sweden leads an invasion of Norway, crossing the border at Basmo near the modern-day town of Marker
  • March 10 – Simon Fraser, a former Scottish rebel who had helped end the Siege of Inverness during the first Jacobite rising, is given a pardon by King George I of Great Britain. [7]
  • March 18 – Italian Jesuit missionary Ippolito Desideri arrives in Lhasa to become one of the first Europeans to attempt to bring Christianity to Buddhist Tibet. [8]
  • March 23 – Jeremias III becomes the new Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church.

April–June[]

  • April 13 – Austria, ruled by King Charles VI, renews its alliance with the Republic of Venice, leading the Ottoman Empire, ruled by Ahmed III, to declare war.
  • May 20 – John Law founds the Banque Générale Privée in Paris.[9]
  • 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.
  • June 9 – In India, 600 imprisoned members of the failed Sikh Khalsa rebellion against the Mughal Empire are executed on orders of the Emperor Farrukhsiyar.[10] Banda Singh Bahadur, leader of the rebellion, is brutally tortured and mutilated before being killed.[11]
  • June 19 – The new Tokugawa Shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshimune, assumes control of the monarchy's military after the illness and death of the six-year-old Ietsugu, last of the male descendants of Tokugawa Ieyasu.[12] Yoshimune's ascendancy begins Year 1 of the Kyōhō Era, which continues until Year 21 in 1736.
  • June 25 – With the Holy Roman Empire having been ceded the "Southern Netherlands" (now Belgium) from Spain, Prince Eugene of Savoy arrives in Brussels as the first Governor-General of the Austrian Netherlands. Eugene soon returns home and leaves administration of the area to a dictatorial Hercule-Louis Turinetti.[13]

July–September[]

  • 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.[14]
  • August 3 – Natchez, one of the oldest towns on the Mississippi River, is founded by French civilians at the site of Fort Rosalie. [15]
  • 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 (who is killed).
  • August 24 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, returns from Italy.
  • September 15 – "Maria", an African slave of the Dutch West India Company on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, murders the plantation overseer, Christiaan Muller, then leads a rebellion, killing Muller's family and much of the white staff on the company's plantation. The uprising is suppressed after 10 days, and Maria is later executed by burning at the stake on November 9. [16]
  • September 26 – Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, eldest son of the Tsar Peter the Great and heir to the throne, flees from Saint Petersburg with his mistress, Efrosinya Fedorova, along with her brother and three servants. After spending more than a year in Austria, he returns to Russia where he is arrested and dies in prison in 1718. [17] [18]

October–December[]

  • October 12 – During the war between the Habsburg Empire ruling Austria and the Ottoman Empire ruling Turkey, the six week siege of the fortified city of Temeşvar is surrendered by the Turks to the Austrians. Under a flag of truce, the Turks are permitted to depart but have to leave behind their artillery as they give up their claim to Hungary. Austro-Hungarian rule lasts until World War One, and in 1919, the city of Timișoara becomes part of the Kingdom of Romania.
  • November 1 – Two new laws go into effect in the Highlands of Scotland to prevent a threat to Britain's ruling House of Hanover by the Jacobites who supported the restoration of the House of Stuart. The Disarming Act requires government authorization to carry swords and firearms, and the amendments to the Treason Act 1714 permit trials for treason to take place in any court in England, regardless of where the crime was committed.
  • 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.[19]
  • 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 (Blackbeard) is given command of a sloop in the Bahamas.[20]
  • 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 (d. 1781)
  • January 4 – Aaron Burr, Sr., President of Princeton University (d. 1757)
  • January 11 – Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English nobleman (d. 1735)
  • January 12 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and scientist (d. 1795)
  • January 15
Charles III of Spain
Lancelot Brown

Deaths[]

Painting by Ogata Kōrin.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • November 14 – Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician (b. 1646)
  • November 22 – Inaba Masamichi, Japanese daimyō (b. 1640)
  • November 26 – Nils Bielke, member of the High Council of Sweden (b. 1644)
  • November 29 – Ofspring Blackall, Bishop of Exeter (b. 1655)
  • December 13 – Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)
  • December 14 – William Trumbull, English diplomat and politician (b. 1639)
  • date unknown
    • Stefano Erardi, Maltese painter (b. 1630)[22]
    • Lalla Aisha Mubarka, Empress of Morocco

References[]

  1. ^ Payne, Stanley G (1973). "Chapter 16: The Eighteenth-Century Bourbon Regime in Spain". A History of Spain and Portugal. Vol. 2. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-06270-8. Retrieved April 17, 2008.
  2. ^ William L. Ramsey, The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
  3. ^ Crieff, Its Traditions and Characters, with Anecdotes of Strathearn (D. McCara, 1881) pp. 302-303
  4. ^ "The Burning of The Strathearn Towns & Villages: Part Two". PertshireCrieffStrathearn Local History. July 15, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
  5. ^ "Significant Earthquake Information". ngdc.noaa.gov. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  6. ^ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1716". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale. Retrieved May 26, 2007.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ Sarah Fraser, The Last Highlander: Scotland's Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent (HarperCollins, 2012) p. 174
  8. ^ Flippo De Filippi, An Account of Tibet: The Travels of Ippolito Desideri (Routledge & Sons, 1931) pp. 50-52
  9. ^ John Philip Wood, Memoirs of the life of John Law of Lauriston, including a detailed account of the rise, progress and termination of the Mississippi System (Adam Black Publishing, 1824) p.26
  10. ^ Louis E. Fenech, The Cherished Five in Sikh History (Oxford University Press, 2021) p. 91
  11. ^ Ganda Singh, Life of Banda Singh Bahadur: Based on Contemporary and Original Records (Sikh History Research Department, 1935) p. 229
  12. ^ Timon Screech, Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822 (RoutledgeCurzon, 2006) p. 97
  13. ^ "England and the Ostend Company", by Gerald B. Hertz, The English Historical Review (April 1907) pp. 256-257
  14. ^ Chasiotis, Ioannis (1975). "Η κάμψη της Οθωμανικής δυνάμεως" [The decline of Ottoman power]. Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Έθνους, Τόμος ΙΑ′: Ο ελληνισμός υπό ξένη κυριαρχία, 1669–1821 [History of the Greek Nation, Volume XI: Hellenism under foreign rule, 1669–1821] (in Greek). Athens: Ekdotiki Athinon. pp. 8–51.
  15. ^ "Revelry in Natchez as 300th anniversary approaches", by Kendra Ablaza, Mississippi Today, May 27, 2016
  16. ^ "Maria (? -1716)", by Han Jordaan, in Women's Lexicon of the Netherlands
  17. ^ V. N. Balyazin, Unofficial History of Russia (Olma Media Group, 2007) p. 216
  18. ^ Ian Grey, The Romanovs (New Word City, 2016)
  19. ^ "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p48-49
  20. ^ Lee, Robert E. (1974). Blackbeard the Pirate (2002 ed.). North Carolina: John F. Blair. ISBN 0-89587-032-0.
  21. ^ Publishing, Britannica Educational (June 1, 2013). Authors of The Enlightenment: 1660 to 1800. Britanncia Educational Publishing. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-62275-010-8.
  22. ^ Schiavone, Michael J. (2009). Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. 1 A–F. Pietà: Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza. p. 756. ISBN 9789993291329.
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