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Events from the year 1716 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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January - The Duke of Argyll disperses the remainder of the Jacobite troops.^[1]
10 February - the pretender James Francis Edward Stuart flees to France. He dismisses Lord Bolingbroke as his secretary of state.^[2]
24 February - execution of the Jacobite leaders James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater and William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure.^[1]
26 April - Septennial Act extends the duration of Parliaments to seven years.^[2]

26 January - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, soldier and politician (died 1785)
23 June - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, politician (died 1789)
6 October - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, statesman (died 1771)
26 December - Thomas Gray, writer (died 1771)

1 January - William Wycherley, playwright (born c.1640)
24 February
- James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, (born 1689)
- William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure, (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)

^ ^a ^b ""1716." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006.". http://history.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1716/political-events. Retrieved 2007-05-26.
^ ^a ^b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 295–296. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. pp. 287. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.