1716

August 5 - In the Battle of Peterwardein 40.000 Austrian troops of Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat 150,000 Ottoman Turks under Darnad Ali Pasha
Pirate Edward Teach the "Blackbeard" raids shipping in the Caribbean
Natchez, one of the oldest towns on the Mississippi, founded.
Crieff, Scotland burned to the ground in revenge for the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Sheriffmuir.
Kangxi Dictionary published this year. This dictionary lays the foundation of most references to Han characters studies nowadays.

January 12 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (d. 1795)
January 15 - Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1778)
January 20 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
January 26 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (d. 1785)
March 6 - Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)
May 29 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (d. 1800)
June 18 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (d. 1809)
June 23 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (d. 1789)
November 4 - Wilhelm von Knyphausen, Hessian Lieutenant-General (d. 1800)
October 3 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
October 6 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)
December 16 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798)
December 25 - Johann Jacob Reiske, German scholar and physician (d. 1774)
December 26 - Thomas Gray, English writer (d. 1771)
December 26 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (d. 1803)
Jean Jacques Barthelemy, French writer and numismatist
November 4 - Wilhelm von Knyphausen, Hessian Lieutenant-General (d. 1800)

January 1 - William Wycherley, English playwright
April 14 - Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral
April 26 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
June 2 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter
June 5 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1682)
June 8 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
June 9 -- Banda Bahadur , Sikh military commander (executed)
June 28 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
July 8 - Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
October 28 - Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627)
November 2 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German traveler and physician (b. 1651)
November 14 - Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician (b. 1646)
December 13 - Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)

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