1716 in Great Britain

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.cite web|url=http://history.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1716/political-events|title="1716." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006.|accessdate=2007-05-26]
* 10 February - the pretender James Francis Edward Stuart flees to France. He dismisses Lord Bolingbroke as his secretary of state.citebook|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=295–296]
* 24 February - execution of the Jacobite leaders James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater and William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure.
* 26 April - Septennial Act extends the duration of Parliaments to seven years.

Undated

* A fire in Wapping destroys 150 houses. [cite book |title=The London Encyclopaedia|author=Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert|publisher= Macmillan|year= 1995|isbn =0-333-57688-8|pages=287]
* 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

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