1716 in Great Britain

none November 2018 November 2020 1716 Events from the year 1716 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George I Regent – George, Prince of Wales (starting 7 July)E. B. Pryde Handbook of British Chronology https://books.google.com/books?id=zcgxEvGAK_kC&pg=PA45 1996 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-56350-5 45 Events January – the Duke of Argyll disperses the remainder of the Jacobite troops.http://history.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1716/political-events The People's Chronology: 1716 Everett, Jason M. Thomson Gale 2006 eNotes.com 2007-05-26 30 September 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070930035159/http://history.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1716/political-events dead 16 January – William Wake appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury. 10 February – the pretender James Francis Edward Stuart flees to France with the Earl of Mar. He dismisses Lord Bolingbroke as his Secretary of State replacing him with Mar.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/295 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 295–296 23 February – William Maxwell of the Jacobite leaders, escapes from the tower of London with the expert help of his wife Winifred Herbert and makes his way to France.Letter from the Countess Dowager of Nithsdale. 24 February – execution of the Jacobite leaders James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, and William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure; their titles and estates suffer attainder. 10 March – Joseph Addison's play The Drummer premieres at Drury Lane Theatre. While not as successful at his previous work Cato, it is revived frequently during the following century. 11 April – Jacobite leader Thomas Forster escapes from Newgate Prison and goes into exile several days before he is due to stand trial. 26 April – Septennial Act 1715 comes into effect, extending the maximum duration of Parliaments from three years to seven (in effect until 2011).http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/legResults.aspx?activeTextDocId=1516478 Septennial Act UK Statute Law Database 2007-09-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20070930075615/http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/legResults.aspx?activeTextDocId=1516478 2007-09-30Lease Owen C. The Septennial Act of 1716 The Journal of Modern History 22 1 1950 42 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1875879 2013-12-30 4 May – despite increased security measures William Mackintosh leads a mass escape of Jacobites from Newgate Prison. Amongst those to escape and evade recapture is Charles Wogan. 14 May – Irish Jacobite Henry Oxburgh is hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn for his part in the English rising of the previous year. 26 May – two regular companies of field artillery, each 100 men strong, are raised at Woolwich by Royal Warrant. 28 May – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, suffers a paralytic stroke. He recovers and remains Captain General of the army, but his duties are increasingly taken over by subordinates 5 July – Prince Ernest Augustus, younger brother of George I, is created Duke of York and Albany in the peerage of Great Britain. 18 July – Melusine von der Schulenburg, mistress of George I, is created for life Duchess of Munster, Marchioness of Dungannon, Countess of Dungannon and Baroness Dundalk, in the Peerage of Ireland. 4 August – George Seton, 5th Earl of Winton, under sentence of death for his part in the Jacobite rising of 1715, escapes from the Tower of London and flees into exile on the continent. 29 September – the original Portland Bill Lighthouse is first illuminated. 9 November – Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales, gives birth to a stillborn son. 12 December – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, is demoted from his office as Secretary of State for the Northern Department in the British government and replaced by James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope a prelude to the Whig Split of the following year. 24 December (4 January 1717 New Style) – Britain, France and the Dutch Republic sign the Triple Alliance in an attempt to maintain the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on 17 November (28 November New Style). Undated A fire in Wapping destroys 150 houses.The London Encyclopaedia Ben Weinreb Christopher Hibbert Macmillan 1995 0-333-57688-8 287 Chalybeate mineral springs are discovered in Cheltenham.The Discovery of the Springs in Cheltenham http://www.cheltenham4u.co.uk/cheltenham_springs.asp cheltenham4u.co.uk 2012-07-05 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120406163645/http://www.cheltenham4u.co.uk/cheltenham_springs.asp 2012-04-06 The English pirate Edward Teach is given command of a sloop in the Bahamas.Lee Robert E. Blackbeard the Pirate https://archive.org/details/blackbeardpirate00leer registration John F. Blair North Carolina 2002 1974 0-89587-032-0 Publications Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor's pamphlet A Preservative against the Principles and Practices of Non-Jurors, both in Church and State, initiating the Bangorian Controversy in the Church of England. Births 26 January – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, soldier and politician (died 1785) 23 June – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, politician (died 1789) 30 August (bapt.) – Lancelot "Capability" Brown, landscape architect (died 1783) 6 October – George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, statesman (died 1771) 26 December – Thomas Gray, poet (died 1771) James Brindley, engineer (died 1772) c. 1716/17 – John Beard, tenor and actor-manager (died 1791) Deaths 1 January – William Wycherley, playwright (born c. 1641) 24 February – executions on Tower Hill James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, Jacobite (born 1689) William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure, Jacobite (born c. 1672) 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) See also 1716 in Wales References 1716 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain Category:1710s in Great Britain Great Britain