8th July » Great Northern War: The naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place.
5th August » The Battle of Petrovaradin takes place.
17th September » Jean Thurel enlists in the Touraine Regiment at the age of 18, the first day of a military career that would span for over 90 years.
Famous Birthdays in 1716
12th January » Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and politician, 1st List of colonial governors of Louisiana e.g Spanish Governor of Louisiana (d. 1795)
15th January » Philip Livingston, American merchant and politician (d. 1778)
20th January » Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French archaeologist and numismatist (d. 1795)
20th January » Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
26th January » George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, English soldier and politician (d. 1785)
6th March » Pehr Kalm, Swedish-Finnish botanist and explorer (d. 1779)
21st March » Josef Seger, Bohemian organist, composer, and educator (d. 1782)
12th April » Felice Giardini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1796)
29th May » Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French zoologist and mineralogist (d. 1800)
18th June » Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (d. 1809)
23rd June » Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales (d. 1789)
16th September » Angelo Maria Amorevoli, Italian tenor (d. 1798)
3rd October » Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
6th October » George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English politician, President of the Board of Trade (d. 1771)
1st December » Étienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
16th December » Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, French diplomat (d. 1798)
25th December » Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (d. 1774)
26th December » Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French soldier and philosopher (d. 1803)
26th December » Thomas Gray, English poet and scholar (d. 1771)
Famous Deaths in History for 1716
1st January » William Wycherley, English playwright (b. 1640)
19th February » Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (b. 1634)
13th April » Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, English admiral and politician (b. 1648)
26th April » John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English jurist and politician, Lord Chancellor known as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1651)
28th April » Louis de Montfort, French priest and saint (b. 1673)
2nd June » Ogata Kōrin, Japanese painter (b. 1658)
5th June » Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
8th June » Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German son of Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1658)
9th June » Banda Singh Bahadur, Indian commander (b. 1670)
28th June » George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (b. 1665)
8th July » Robert South, English preacher (b. 1634)
26th September » Antoine Parent, French mathematician (b. 1666)
28th October » Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627)
2nd November » Engelbert Kaempfer, German botanist and physician (b. 1651)
14th November » Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1646)
6th December » Benedictus Buns, Dutch priest and composer (b. 1642)
13th December » Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)