1716 - The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia Year 1716 (MDCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar
1716 in Great Britain - Wikipedia Events from the year 1716 in Great Britain January – the Duke of Argyll disperses the remainder of the Jacobite troops [2] 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