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Years: 1713 1714 1715 - 1716 - 1717 1718 1719
Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1716 in literature 1716 in music 1716 in science List of state leaders in 1716 List of religious leaders in 1716

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths

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.
Baron John Somers Somers
Engelbrecht Kaempfer, German traveller and physician
Charles de LaFosse, French painter