* 1715 – Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.

* 1637 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician ( d. 1715 )

* 1638 – Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher ( d. 1715 )

* 1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer ( d. 1747 )

* 1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher ( b. 1715 )

* 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

* Peter Alexeievich Romanov ( 23 October 1715 – 30 January 1730 )

* 1694 – Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( d. 1715 )

* 1715 – The Yamasee War begins in South Carolina.

* 1785 – William Whitehead, English writer ( b. 1715 )

* 1715 – James Nares, English composer of mostly sacred vocal works ( d. 1783 )

* 1767 – Franz Sparry, Austrian composer ( b. 1715 )

Pope: " Thus on a roe the well-breath'd beagle flies, And rends his hide fresh-bleeding with the dart " The Iliad of Homer ( 1715 – 20 ) Book XV: 697 – 8

Charles Ancillon ( 28 July 1659 – 5 July 1715 ) was a French jurist and diplomat.

** Louis XIV ( 1643 – 1715 )

** Louis XV ( 1715 – 1774 )

** Louis III ( 1643 – 1715 )

** Louis IV ( 1715 – 1774 )

* Louis XIV ( 1643 – 1715 )

* Louis XV ( 1715 – 1774 )

* Lynn, John Albert, Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610 – 1715, Cambridge University Press, 1997

* 1715 – George Hickes, English minister and scholar ( b. 1642 )

Defoe comments on the tendency to attribute tracts of uncertain authorship to him in his apologia Appeal to Honour and Justice ( 1715 ), a defence of his part in Harley's Tory ministry ( 1710 – 14 ).

Three of five siblings survived to adulthood, Denise Diderot ( 1715 – 1797 ) and their youngest brother Pierre-Didier Diderot ( 1722 – 1787 ), and finally their sister Angélique Diderot ( 1720 – 1749 ).

** Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier ( executed ) ( b. 1715 )

In the midst of this dispute, Louis XIV died in 1715, and the government of France was taken over by Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, serving as regent for the 5-year-old Louis XV of France.

Between 1715 – the year of Louis's death – and 1723, power transferred to the Régence ; the regent, Philippe d ' Orléans, maintained the prison but the absolutist rigour of Louis XIV's system began to weaken somewhat.

Philippe d ' Orléans ( Philippe Charles ; 2 August 1674 – 2 December 1723 ) was a member of the royal family of France and served as Regent of the Kingdom from 1715 to 1723.

* Philippe, Duke of Mouchy ( 1715 – 1794 ), Marshal of France since 24. 3. 1775

* Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ( 1674 – 1723 ), Regent of France from 1715 to 1723 ;

The Régence (, Regency ) is the period in French history between 1715 and 1723, when King Louis XV was a minor and the land was governed by a Regent, Philippe d ' Orléans, the nephew of Louis XIV of France.

For over seventy years, from 1701 to 1774, the title had no living representatives in the French court, as Philippe of France, died in 1701 and Louis XV was the youngest of the sons of Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy and at the time of ascension to the throne in 1715 had no brothers.

In September 1715, Philippe d ' Orléans, who had just become regent for the 5-year-old king Louis XV, appointed the then 23-year-old duc de Bourbon to his first Regency Council, the highest consultative body in the French government during the king's minority, equivalent to the Conseil d ' en-haut ), appointed by adult kings.

His younger brother Philippe ( 1715 – 1794 ), comte de Noailles, afterwards duc de Mouchy, was more distinguished soldier than his brother.

* Philippe de Noailles, comte de Noailles, duc de Mouchy ( 1715 – 1794 ) married the famous Madame Étiquette and had issue ; wife was a Lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette ; Louis and his wife were executed in the Revolution ;

* Philippe d ' Orléans ( 1674 – 1723 ), Regent of France 1715 – 1723, son of the above ;

Philippe de Noailles, comte de Noailles and later prince de Poix, duc de Mouchy, and duc de Poix à brevêt ( 27 December 1715 in Paris – 27 June 1794 in Paris ), was a younger brother of Louis de Noailles, and a more distinguished soldier than his brother.

# REDIRECT Philippe de Noailles ( 1715 – 1794 )

The founder of the branch, Philippe de Noailles ( 1715 – 1794 ), comte de Noailles, afterwards duc de Mouchy, was a younger brother of Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, and a more distinguished soldier than his brother.

* Philippe de Noailles, 1st duc de Mouchy ( 1715 – 1794 )

* Letters 90 – 137 or Letter 8 = 145: the Regency of Philippe d ’ Orléans, covering five years ( from September 1715 to November 1720 ).

At the death of Louis XIV, the regent Philippe d ' Orléans, in search of political support, satisfied the aristocracy by replacing the ministers and secretaries of state with eight councils ( declarations of September 15 and December 14, 1715 ) which were dominated by the ancient aristocracy ( descending from medieval knights, as opposed to the new aristocracy of recently ennobled lawyers and civil servants ).

( Pierre Louis ) Philippe de La Guêpière ( c. 1715 – 30 October 1773 ) was a French architect whose main commissions were from Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg.

Fort Miami, originally called Fort St. Philippe or Fort des Miamis, was built in 1715 at Kekionga, a large Miami village founded where the St. Joseph River and St. Marys River merge to form the Maumee River.

Its power slipped away during the Regency of Philippe d ' Orléans, ( 1715 – 1723 ) and the long regime of King Louis XV, when France lost the Seven Years ' War with England, and lost much of its empire in Canada and India.