1716

1716 (MDCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1716th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 716th year of the 2nd millennium, the 16th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1710s decade. As of the start of 1716, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1680s  1690s  1700s  – 1710s –  1720s  1730s  1740s
Years:	1713 1714 1715 – 1716 – 1717 1718 1719

1716 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1716 MDCCXVI
Ab urbe condita	2469
Armenian calendar	1165 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	6466
Balinese saka calendar	1637–1638
Bengali calendar	1123
Berber calendar	2666
British Regnal year	2 Geo. 1 – 3 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar	2260
Burmese calendar	1078
Byzantine calendar	7224–7225
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4412 or 4352     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4413 or 4353
Coptic calendar	1432–1433
Discordian calendar	2882
Ethiopian calendar	1708–1709
Hebrew calendar	5476–5477
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1772–1773
- Shaka Samvat	1637–1638
- Kali Yuga	4816–4817
Holocene calendar	11716
Igbo calendar	716–717
Iranian calendar	1094–1095
Islamic calendar	1128–1129
Japanese calendar	Shōtoku 6 / Kyōhō 1 (享保元年)
Javanese calendar	1639–1640
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4049
Minguo calendar	196 before ROC 民前196年
Nanakshahi calendar	248
Thai solar calendar	2258–2259
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 1842 or 1461 or 689     — to — མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 1843 or 1462 or 690

Events

• 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.