Georg-philipp-rugendas-the-elder-1716-battle-of-petrovaradin

Events

January–March

January 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1458 BC – Hatshepsut dies at the age of 50 and is buried in the Valley of the Kings. * 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the R ...

– The application of the

Nueva Planta decrees The Nueva Planta decrees (, , ) were a number of decrees signed between 1707 and 1716 by Philip V of Spain, Philip V, the first House of Bourbon, Bourbon Monarchy of Spain, King of Spain, during and shortly after the end of the War of the Spani ...

Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ...

make it subject to the laws of the

Crown of Castile The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Kingdom of Castile, Castile and Kingd ...

, and abolishes the

Principality of Catalonia The Principality of Catalonia (; ; ; ) was a Middle Ages, medieval and early modern state (polity), state in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. During most of its history it was in dynastic union with the Kingdom of Aragon, constituting together ...

as a political entity, concluding the unification of Spain under Philip V. *

January 27 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the ...

– The

Tugaloo Tugaloo (''Dugiluyi'' (ᏚᎩᎷᏱ)) was a Cherokee town located on the Tugaloo River, at the mouth of Toccoa Creek. It was south of Toccoa and Travelers Rest State Historic Site in present-day Stephens County, Georgia, United States. Cultu ...

massacre changes the course of the

Yamasee War The Yamasee War (also spelled Yamassee or Yemassee) was a conflict fought in South Carolina from 1715 to 1717 between British settlers from the Province of Carolina and the Yamasee, who were supported by a number of allied Native Americans in ...

, allying the

Cherokee The Cherokee (; , or ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their homelands, in towns along river valleys of what is now southwestern ...

nation with the British

province of South Carolina The Province of South Carolina, originally known as Clarendon Province, was a province of the Kingdom of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the Thirteen Colonies i ...

against the Creek Indian nation. *

January 28 Events Pre-1600 *AD 98, 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany. * 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accessi ...

– The town of

Crieff Crieff (; , meaning "tree") is a Scottish market town in Perth and Kinross on the A85 road between Perth, Scotland, Perth and Crianlarich, and the A822 road, A822 between Greenloaning and Aberfeldy, Scotland, Aberfeldy. The A822 road, A822 joins ...

, Scotland, is burned to the ground by Jacobites returning from the

Battle of Sheriffmuir The Battle of Sheriffmuir (, ) was an engagement in 1715 at the height of the Jacobite rising of 1715, Jacobite rising in Scotland. The battlefield has been included in the Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland and protected by Histor ...

. *

February 3 Events Pre-1600 * 1047 – Drogo of Hauteville is elected as count of the Apulian Normans during the Norman conquest of Southern Italy. * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, u ...

– The

1716 Algiers earthquake The 1716 Algiers earthquake was part of a seismic sequence which began in February and ended in May 1716. The largest and most destructive shock occurred on February 3 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.0. The earthquakes with an epicenter ...

sequence began with an 7.0 mainshock that caused severe damage and killed 20,000 in Algeria. *

February 10 Events Pre-1600 * 1258 – The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire. * 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bru ...

– James Edward Stuart flees from Scotland to France with a handful of supporters, following the failure of the

Jacobite rising of 1715 The Jacobite rising of 1715 ( ; or 'the Fifteen') was the attempt by James Francis Edward Stuart, James Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) to regain the thrones of Kingdom of England, England, Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland and Kingdom of Scotland ...

. *

February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. ...

– Jacobite leaders

James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater (26 June 1689 – 24 February 1716) was an English peer who participated in the Jacobite rising of 1715 and was executed for treason. Life Radclyffe was the son of Edward Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Derwen ...

and

William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure and Lord Lochinvar (c. 167224 February 1716) was a Scottish Jacobite. William Gordon was the only son of Alexander Gordon, 5th Viscount of Kenmure of Kenmure Castle and succeeded his father on his death ...

are executed in London. *

March 6 Events Pre-1600 * 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor. * 845 – The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam. * 1204 &ndas ...

– At night, an

aurora borealis An aurora ( aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly observed in high-latitude regions (around the Arc ...

was seen throughout Europe, from Ireland to Italy. *

March 8 Events Pre-1600 * 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem '' Shahnameh''. * 1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León. * 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between ...

– King

Charles XII of Sweden Charles XII, sometimes Carl XII () or Carolus Rex (17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S.), was King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718. He belonged to the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, a branch line of the House of ...

leads an invasion of

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

, crossing the border at Basmo, near the modern-day town of Marker. *

March 10 Events Pre-1600 * 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end. * 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes ...

– Simon Fraser, a former Scottish rebel who had helped end the Siege of Inverness during the

first Jacobite rising The Glorious Revolution, also known as the Revolution of 1688, was the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange (William III and II), a ...

, is given a pardon by King George I of Great Britain. *

March 18 Events Pre-1600 * 37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ''(aka Caligula = Little Boots)'' emperor.Tacitus, ''Annals'' V.10. * 1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Ar ...

– Italian Jesuit missionary

Ippolito Desideri Ippolito Desideri, SJ (21 December 1684 Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany – 14 April 1733 Rome, Papal States) was an Italian Jesuit missionary and traveller and the most famous of the early European missionaries who founded Catholic Church in ...

arrives in

Lhasa Lhasa, officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City, is the inner urban district of Lhasa (city), Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China. Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining ...

to become one of the first Europeans to attempt to bring Christianity to Buddhist

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups s ...

. *

March 23 Events Pre-1600 * 1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. * 1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the las ...

– Jeremias III becomes the new

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople The ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople () is the List of ecumenical patriarchs of Constantinople, archbishop of Constantinople and (first among equals) among the heads of the several autocephalous churches that comprise the Eastern Orthodox ...

, leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church.

April–June

April 13 Events Pre-1600 * 1111 – Henry V, King of Germany, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. * 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. * 1455 – Thirteen Years' War: ...

–

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

, ruled by King Charles VI, renews its alliance with the

Republic of Venice The Republic of Venice, officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and Maritime republics, maritime republic with its capital in Venice. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 ...

, leading the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

, ruled by

Ahmed III Ahmed III (, ''Aḥmed-i sālis''; was sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of sultan Mehmed IV (r. 1648–1687). His mother was Gülnuş Sultan, originally named Evmania Voria, who was an ethnic Greek. He was born at Hacıoğlu Pazarcık, ...

, to declare war. *

May 20 Events Pre-1600 * 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church. * 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose h ...

–

John Law John Law may refer to: Arts and entertainment * John Law (artist) (born 1958), American artist * John Law (comics), comic-book character created by Will Eisner * John Law (film director), Hong Kong film director * John Law (musician) (born 1961) ...

founds the Banque Générale Privée in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

. *

May 26 Events Pre-1600 * 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe. * 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire ta ...

– Two regular companies of field artillery, each 100 men strong, are raised at

Woolwich Woolwich () is a town in South London, southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The district's location on the River Thames led to its status as an important naval, military and industrial area; a role that was mainta ...

, by Royal Warrant of King

George I of Great Britain George I (George Louis; ; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland, Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. ...

. *

May 28 Events Pre-1600 * 585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from ...

–

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough General (United Kingdom), General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S.) was a Briti ...

, suffers a

paralytic stroke Stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding. Both cause parts of the brain to stop ...

. *

June 9 Events Pre-1600 * 411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy. * 53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia. * 68 – Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's ''Aeneid'', thus ending the J ...

– In

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

, 600 imprisoned members of the failed

Sikh Sikhs (singular Sikh: or ; , ) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak. The term ''Si ...

Khalsa The term ''Khalsa'' refers to both a community that follows Sikhism as its religion,Khalsa: Sikhism< ...

rebellion against the

Mughal Empire The Mughal Empire was an Early modern period, early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to ...

are executed on orders of the Emperor

Farrukhsiyar Farrukhsiyar (; 20 August 16839 April 1719), also spelled as Farrukh Siyar, was the tenth Mughal emperors, Mughal Emperor from 1713 to 1719. He rose to the throne after deposing his uncle Jahandar Shah. He was an emperor only in name, with all ...

Banda Singh Bahadur Banda Singh Bahadur, born Lachman Dev (27 October 1670 – 9 June 1716), was a Sikh warrior and a Jathedar, general of the Khalsa Fauj, Khalsa Army. At age 15, he left home to become an Sannyasa, ascetic, and was given the name Madho Das Baira ...

, leader of the rebellion, is brutally tortured and mutilated before being killed. *

June 19 Events Pre-1600 * 325 – The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea. * 1179 – The Battle of Kalvskinnet takes place outside Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle cha ...

– The new Tokugawa Shogun of Japan,

Tokugawa Yoshimune was the eighth ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1716 until his abdication in 1745. He was the son of Tokugawa Mitsusada, the grandson of Tokugawa Yorinobu, and the great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Yoshimune is know ...

, 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 Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; 31 January 1543 – 1 June 1616) was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three "Gr ...

. Yoshimune's ascendancy begins Year 1 of the

Kyōhō , also pronounced Kyōho, was a after '' Shōtoku'' and before ''Genbun.'' This period spanned the years from July 1716 through April 1736. The reigning emperors were and . Change of era * 1716 : The era name of ''Kyōhō'' (meaning "Undergo ...

Era, which continues until Year 21 in

1736 Events January–March * January 12 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, becomes the Second Field Marshal of Great Britain. * January 23 – The Civil Code of 1734 is passed in Sweden. * January 26 – Stanislaus I of P ...

. *

June 25 Events Pre-1600 * 524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce. * 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of ...

– With the Holy Roman Empire having been ceded the "Southern Netherlands" (now

Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...

) from Spain,

Prince Eugene of Savoy Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy-Carignano (18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736), better known as Prince Eugene, was a distinguished Generalfeldmarschall, field marshal in the Army of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty durin ...

arrives in

Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...

as the first Governor-General of the

Austrian Netherlands The Austrian Netherlands was the territory of the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire between 1714 and 1797. The period began with the acquisition by the Austrian Habsburg monarchy of the former Spanish Netherlands under the Treaty of Ras ...

. Eugene soon returns home and leaves administration of the area to a dictatorial Hercule-Louis Turinetti.

July–September

July 5 Events Pre-1600 * 328 – The official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava ( Corabia, Romania) and Oescus ( Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius. * 1316 – The Burgundian ...

– Prince Ernest Augustus is created

Duke of York and Albany Duke of York and Albany was a title of nobility in the Peerage of Great Britain. The title was created three times during the 18th century and was usually given to the second son of Monarchy of the United Kingdom, British monarchs. The predeces ...

, in the

peerage of Great Britain The Peerage of Great Britain comprises all extant peerages created in the Kingdom of Great Britain between the Acts of Union 1707 and the Acts of Union 1800. It replaced the Peerage of England and the Peerage of Scotland, but was itself repla ...

. *

July 8 Events Pre-1600 * 1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch. * 1167 – The Byzantines defeat the Hungarian army ...

– The

Battle of Dynekilen The naval Battle of Dynekilen () took place on 8 July 1716 during the Great Northern War between a Dano-Norwegian fleet under Peter Tordenskjold and a Swedish fleet under Olof Strömstierna. The battle resulted in a Dano-Norwegian victory. ...

: The Swedish fleet is defeated by a Danish–Norwegian fleet. *

–

August 21 Events Pre-1600 * 959 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège. *1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty (1115–1234), Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song War ...

–

Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War Seventh is the ordinal number (linguistics), ordinal form of the number 7, seven. Seventh may refer to: * Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution * A fraction (mathematics), , equal to one of seven equal parts Film and television *"T ...

: The

unsuccessfully lays siege to

Corfu Corfu ( , ) or Kerkyra (, ) is a Greece, Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands; including its Greek islands, small satellite islands, it forms the margin of Greece's northwestern frontier. The island is part of the Corfu (regio ...

, the last bastion of the

in the Greek islands. *

August 3 Events Pre-1600 * 8 – Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna. * 435 – Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emp ...

–

Natchez Natchez may refer to: Places * Natchez, Alabama, United States * Natchez, Indiana, United States * Natchez, Louisiana, United States * Natchez, Mississippi, a city in southwestern Mississippi, United States ** Natchez slave market, Mississippi * ...

, one of the oldest towns on the

Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the main stem, primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. It is the second-longest river in the United States, behind only the Missouri River, Missouri. From its traditional source of Lake Ita ...

, is founded by French civilians at the site of Fort Rosalie. *

August 4 Events Pre-1600 * 598 – Goguryeo–Sui War#Course of the war, Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Emperor Wen of Sui, Wéndi of Sui dynasty, Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assiste ...

–

George Seton, 5th Earl of Winton George Seton, 5th Earl of Winton (c. 1678–1749) was a Scottish nobleman who took part in the Jacobite rising of 1715 supporting "The Old Pretender" James Stuart. Captured by the English, Seton was tried and sentenced to death, but escaped an ...

, under sentence of death for his part in the

, escapes from the

Tower of London The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamle ...

and flees into exile on the continent. *

August 5 Events Pre-1600 * AD 25 – Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty. * 70 – Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are ...

–

Battle of Petrovaradin The Battle of Petrovaradin also known as the Battle of Peterwardein, took place on 5 August 1716 during the Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718), Austro-Turkish War when the Ottoman army besieged the Habsburg-controlled fortress of Petrovaradin on ...

: 83,300 Austrian troops of

defeat 150,000

Ottoman Turks The Ottoman Turks () were a Turkic peoples, Turkic ethnic group in Anatolia. Originally from Central Asia, they migrated to Anatolia in the 13th century and founded the Ottoman Empire, in which they remained socio-politically dominant for the e ...

under

Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha (1667 – 5 August 1716), also called Silahdar Ali Pasha, was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman general and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, Grand Vizier. His epithet ''silahdar Agha, silahdar'' means arms-bearer and ''damat ...

(who is killed). *

August 24 Events Pre-1600 * 367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father. * 394 – The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written ...

–

Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI (; ; 1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1711 until his death, succeeding his elder brother, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph I. He unsuccessfully War of ...

, returns from Italy. *

September 15 Events Pre-1600 * 994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes. * 1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against hi ...

– Maria (rebel leader), "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. * 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, Afrosinya, 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.

October–December

*October 12 – During the Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18, war between the Habsburg Empire ruling Austria and the Ottoman Empire ruling Turkey, the Siege of Temeşvar (1716), six week siege of the fortified city of Timisoara, 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 Scottish Highlands, Highlands of Scotland to prevent a threat to Britain's ruling House of Hanover by the Jacobitism, 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. * 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. This is a move towards the Whig Split of 1717.

Date unknown

* English pirate Edward Teach ''(Blackbeard)'' is given command of a sloop in the Bahamas. * Tsar Peter the Great of Russian Empire, Russia studies with the physician Herman Boerhaave, at Leiden University. * The ''Kangxi Dictionary'' is published, laying the foundation of most references to Chinese characters, Han characters studied today.

Births

January

* January 1 – Joshua Loring, colonial American captain in British service (d. 1781), Gaspar de Portola, Spanish California Expedition (d.1786) * 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 ** Philip Livingston, American politician (d. 1778) ** Pierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet, French scientist (d. 1796) Charles III of Spain high resolution

* January 20 ** King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788) ** Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795) ** Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti, German architect (d. 1782) * January 26 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British Army general (d. 1785) * January 30 – Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Swedish architect and civil servant (d. 1796)

February

* February 2 – David Graeme (1716–1797), David Graeme, British Army general (d. 1797) * February 4 – José Solís Folch de Cardona, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770) * February 8 – Pasquale Cafaro, Italian composer (d. 1787) * February 9 – Mary Palmer, English writer (d. 1794) * February 23 – Antoine-Joseph Pernety, French writer (d. 1796)

March

– Pehr Kalm, Finnish scientist (d. 1779) * March 13 – Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1801) *

– Friedrich Wilhelm, Graf von Wylich und Lottum, Prussian army officer (d. 1774) * March 19 – Guillaume Coustou the Younger, French artist (d. 1777) * March 21 – Josef Seger, Czech composer and organist (d. 1782)

April

* April 1 – Morgan Rhys, Welsh hymn-writer (d. 1779) * April 5 – Jeremiah Theus, American artist (d. 1774) * April 12 – Felice Giardini, Italian composer, violinist (d. 1796) * April 24 – Johann Georg Weishaupt, German lawyer (d. 1753)

May

* May 2 – Infante Carlos of Portugal, Portuguese ''infante'' (prince) (d.

) * May 8 – James Wright (governor), James Wright, Governor of Georgia (d. 1785) *

– Friedrich Samuel Bock, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1785) * May 24 – Constantine, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (d. 1778) *

– Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet, British politician and member of the English gentry (d. 1797) * May 29 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French scientist (d. 1799)

June

* June 10 – Carl Gustaf Ekeberg, Swedish explorer (d. 1784) * June 18 ** Charles Edzard, Prince of East Frisia (d. 1744) ** Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (d. 1809) * June 23 – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley (d. 1789) *

– Johann Baptist Babel, Swiss sculptor (d. 1799) * June 26 – Charles-Nicolas d'Oultremont, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1771) * June 27 – Louise Diane d'Orléans, last child of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans (d.

)

July

* July 3 – Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch, German Prince-Bishop (d. 1795) * July 14 – Michael Schlatter, American clergyman (d. 1790) * July 17 – William Errington (priest), William Errington, English priest (d. 1768) * July 22 – Jan Jakub Zamoyski, Polish noble (d. 1790)

August

* August 2 – Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Baron Edgcumbe, British baron, politician (d. 1761) *

– Sir John Dashwood-King, 3rd Baronet, English country gentleman (d. 1793) * August 8 ** Andrea Spagni, Italian theologian (d. 1788) ** Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (1716–1777), Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley, British politician (d. 1777) * August 15 – Karl Joseph von Firmian, Austrian diplomat (d. 1782) * August 18 – Johan Maurits Mohr, Dutch-German pastor and astronomer (d. 1775) * August 30 – Capability Brown, English landscape architect (d. 1783)

September

* September 2 – Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu, French engraver (d. 1791) * September 6 – Charles Bennet, 3rd Earl of Tankerville, British Earl (d. 1767) * September 16 – Angelo Maria Amorevoli, Italian musician (d. 1798) * September 19 – Jan Jacob Schultens, Dutch linguist (d. 1788) * October 1 – Benjamin Waller, American politician (d. 1786) * October 3 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781) * October 4 – James Lind, Scottish physician (d. 1794) * October 5 – Alexei Senyavin, Russian admiral (d. 1797) * October 6 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, British statesman (d. 1771) * October 8 – Gaspar of Braganza, Archbishop of Braga, Portuguese clergyman (d. 1780) * October 16 – Lord Augustus FitzRoy, Royal Navy officer during the War of the Austrian Succession (d. 1741) * October 26 – Charles Christian Erdmann, Duke of Württemberg-Oels (d. 1792)

November

* November 1 ** William Foye, Canadian politician (d. 1771) ** Joseph Dinouart, French preacher (d. 1786) * November 4 – Wilhelm von Knyphausen, Prussian soldier (d. 1800) * November 16 – John Monro (physician), John Monro, British physician of Bethlem Hospital (d. 1791) * November 26 – Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1716–1776), Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, British duchess; Lady of the Bedchamber (d. 1776)

December

* December 1 – Étienne Maurice Falconet, French artist (d. 1791) * December 7 – Henry Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode, German politician, canon, provost and author of numerous hymns (d. 1778) * December 12 – Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, Margravine of Brandenburg-Schwedt (d. 1782) * December 16 ** Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli, Swiss agronomist (d. 1780) ** Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798) * December 23 – Johann Heinrich Rolle, German baroque composer (d. 1785) * December 25 – Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar (d. 1774) * December 26 ** Thomas Gray, English poet, historian (d. 1771) ** Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet, philosopher and military officer (d. 1803) * December 27 – Leonardo Ximenes, Italian mathematician (d. 1786)

Approximate date

* Arnarsaq, Inuit translator, interpreter and missionary (d. after 1771) * Catherine Théot, French visionary (d. 1794) * Anna Margareta Salmelin, Finnish prisoner of war (d. 1789)

Date unknown

* Josip Kazimir Drašković, Croatian General in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) (d. 1765)

Deaths

January

* January 1 – William Wycherley, English playwright (b. 1641) * January 18 – Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1640) * January 30 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, French-born Polish consort to King John III Sobieski (b. 1641)

February

* February 2 – Juan Domingo de Zuñiga y Fonseca, Spanish Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (b. 1640) * February 19 – Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norway's first professional female author (b. 1634)

March

* March 26 – Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, German book publisher (b. 1653) * March 28 – John Vesey (archbishop of Tuam), John Vesey, Irish archbishop (b. 1638)

April

* April 14 – Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral (b. c. 1648) * April 26 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651) * April 28 – Saint Louis de Montfort, author, ''True Devotion to Mary'' (b. 1673) * April 29 – Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1655)

May

* May 11 – Francis de Geronimo, Italian priest (b. 1642) * May 14 – Henry Oxburgh, executed Irish Jacobite leader

June

* June 2 – Ogata Kōrin, Japanese painter (b. c. 1657) * June 5 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1682) * June 8 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658) *

– Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed) (b. 1670) *

– Tokugawa Ietsugu, 7th Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (b. 1709) * June 28 – George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)

July

– Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634) * July 9 – Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician (b. 1653) * July 14 – Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield, English peer (b. 1663) * July 26 – Paolo Alessandro Maffei, Italian antiquarian, humanist (b. 1653)

August

– Silahtar Ali Pasha, Ottoman (Turkish) grand vizier (b. 1667) * August 6 – Frederick Augustus, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt (b. 1654)

September

* September 25 – Johann Christoph Pez, German composer (b. 1664)

October

* October 17 – Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, Scottish peeress (b. 1631) * October 28 – Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627) * October 10 – Anton Egon, Prince of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg, Governor of the Electorate of Saxony (b. 1656)

November

* November 2 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German traveler, physician (b. 1651) * November 9 – Maria (rebel leader), Maria, Curaçaoan slave rebel leader * 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

* December 5 – William Ettrick, English politician (b. 1651) * 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) * Lalla Aisha Mubarka, Empress of Morocco * Samuel Weston (politician), Samuel Weston, English politician

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:1716 1716, Leap years in the Gregorian calendar