1716

Events

• Natchez, one of the oldest towns on the Mississippi, founded.
• Crieff, Scotland was burned to the ground in revenge for the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Sheriffmuir.
• Kangxi Dictionary was published this year. This dictionary laid the fundamental of most references to Han characters studies nowadays.

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721)

Births

• January 20 - King Charles III of Spain
• December 25 - Johann Jacob Reiske
• December 26 - Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer († 1771)
• Jean Jaques Barthelemy, French writer and numismatist

Deaths

• June 2 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter
• June 5 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician and philosopher
• November 14 - Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, mathematician, diplomat and lawyer.
• John Somers, 1st Baron Somers
• Engelbrecht Kaempfer, German traveller and physician
• Charles de La Fosse, French painter

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