* 1716 – Felice Giardini, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1796 )

In 1788 Jean Jacques Barthelemy ( 1716 – 95 ), a highly esteemed classical scholar and Jesuit, published The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, about a young Scythian descended from Anacharsis.

* 1716 – Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral

* 1716 – The Battle of Petrovaradin takes place.

* 1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine ( d. 1716 )

* 1660 – Sebastián Durón, Spanish composer ( d. 1716 )

At Nuremberg in 1733, he published a collection of 316 observations of the aurora borealis made by himself and others over the period 1716 – 1732.

* Banda Singh Bahadur ( 1670 – 1716 ), Sikh military leader

* 1716 – Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer ( d. 1798 )

:* Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland ( née Lady Anne Churchill ; 1683 – 1716 ), second daughter of the 1st Duke

* 1716 – Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor ( d. 1791 )

* 1716 – Thomas Gray, English writer ( d. 1771 )

* 1716 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet ( d. 1803 )

* 1716 – Charles de La Fosse, French painter ( b. 1640 )

Boucher decided that instead of taking over David's tutelage, he would send David to his friend Joseph-Marie Vien ( 1716 – 1809 ), a painter who embraced the classical reaction to Rococo.

* 1716 – Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet ( b. 1634 )

* 1645 – Johann Aegidius Bach, German violist ( d. 1716 )

* 1803 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet ( b. 1716 )

* 1716 – Philip Livingston, American founding father ( d. 1778 )

* 1716 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician ( d. 1785 )

* 1778 – Philip Livingston, American merchant and statesman, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ( b. 1716 )

* 1682 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician ( d. 1716 )

* 1716 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter ( d. 1809 )

* 1716 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician ( b. 1682 )

* 1646 – Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician ( d. 1716 )

The first book on bridge engineering was written by Hubert Gautier in 1716.

By July 1716, Mather had read an endorsement of inoculation by Dr. Emanuel Timonius of Constantinople in the Philosophical Transactions.

The first known reference to one was by Johann Speth in 1693 and the earliest such extant signed and dated clavichord was built in 1716 by Johann Michael Heinitz.

" A more elaborate version was given by Gottfried Leibniz ( 1646 CE to 1716 CE ); this is the version that Gödel studied and attempted to clarify with his ontological argument.

Mary Wortley Montagu, by Charles Jervas, after 1716

Following the destruction of Port Royal in the great earthquake of 1692 refugees settled across the bay in Kingston which by 1716 had become the biggest town in Jamaica and became the capital city in 1872.

Sent on a mission by the Dutch East India Company, Engelbert Kaempfer ( 1651 – 1716 ), a German physician and botanist who lived in Japan from 1690 until 1692, ushered in this tradition of a combination of physician and botanist.

The river was given its name in 1716 by Domingo Ramón and appeared as Río de Sabinas on a 1721 map.

Cabbage rolls were introduced in Sweden by Karl XII who came in contact with this dish at the time of the Battle of Poltava and during his camp in the Turkish Bender and later introduced by his Ottoman creditors, who moved to Stockholm in 1716.

This kind of inoculation and other forms of variolation were introduced into England by Lady Montagu, a famous English letter-writer and wife of the English ambassador at Istanbul between 1716 and 1718, who almost died from smallpox as a young adult and was physically scarred from it.

Anti-razors have also been created by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ( 1646 – 1716 ), Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ), and Karl Menger.

Partly destroyed by natural disasters and rebuilt several times during the following 200 years, and hit by Caragea's plague in 1813 – 1814, the city was wrested from Ottoman control and occupied at several intervals by the Habsburg Monarchy ( 1716, 1737, 1789 ) and Imperial Russia ( three times between 1768 and 1806 ).

Kerkyra, the " Door of Venice " during the centuries when the whole Adriatic was the Gulf of Venice, remained in Venetian hands from 1401 until 1797, though several times assailed by Turkish naval and land forces and subjected to four notable sieges in 1537, 1571, 1573 and 1716, in which the great natural strength of the city and its defenders asserted itself time after time.

It is believed by the faithful that on its way from the island the plague scratched one of the fortification stones of the old citadel to indicate its fury at being expelled ; St. Spyridon is also attributed the role of saving the island at the second great siege of Corfu of 1716.

In 1716 Antonio Vivaldi, on commission by the republic of Venice, composed the oratorio Juditha triumphans to commemorate this great event.

Juditha triumphans was first performed in November 1716 in Venice by the orchestra and choir of the Ospedale della Pietà and is described as Vivaldi's first great oratorio.

In East Asia, the swastika is a Chinese character, defined by Kangxi Dictionary, published in 1716, as " synonym of myriad, used mostly in Buddhist classic texts ", by extension, the word later evolved to represent eternity and Buddhism.

This may have had background in an important battle in 1716 that was fought in the town square in Moss in which Norwegian troops commanded by Vincent Budde prevailed over invading Swedish forces, sent by Charles XII to capture Akershus Fortress.