1716 in Great Britain
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "1716_in_Great_Britain".

1716 in Great Britain:

Other years

1714 | 1715 | 1716 | 1717 | 1718

Events from the year 1716 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George I of Great Britain

Events

• January - The Duke of Argyll disperses the remainder of the Jacobite troops.^[1]
• 10 February - the pretender James Francis Edward Stuart flees to France. He dismisses Lord Bolingbroke as his secretary of state.^[2]
• 24 February - execution of the Jacobite leaders James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater and William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure.^[1]
• 26 April - Septennial Act extends the duration of Parliaments to seven years.^[2]

Undated

• A fire in Wapping destroys 150 houses.^[3]
• William Wake enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Births

• 26 January - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, soldier and politician (died 1785)
• 23 June - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, politician (died 1789)
• 6 October - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, statesman (died 1771)
• 26 December - Thomas Gray, writer (died 1771)

Deaths

• 1 January - William Wycherley, playwright (born c.1640)
• 14 April - Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, admiral (born c.1648)
• 26 April - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1651)
• 5 June - Roger Cotes, mathematician and philosopher (born 1682)
• 28 June - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, general (born 1665)
• 8 July - Robert South, churchman (born 1634)
• 28 October - Stephen Fox, politician (born 1627)

References

See also