1716
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| Gregorian calendar | 1716 MDCCXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2469 |
| Armenian calendar | 1165 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6466 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1637–1638 |
| Bengali calendar | 1123 |
| Berber calendar | 2666 |
| British Regnal year | 2 Geo. 1 – 3 Geo. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2260 |
| Burmese calendar | 1078 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7224–7225 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4412 or 4352 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4413 or 4353 |
| Coptic calendar | 1432–1433 |
| Discordian calendar | 2882 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1708–1709 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5476–5477 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1772–1773 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1637–1638 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4816–4817 |
| Holocene calendar | 11716 |
| Igbo calendar | 716–717 |
| Iranian calendar | 1094–1095 |
| Islamic calendar | 1128–1129 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōtoku 6 / Kyōhō 1 (享保元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1639–1640 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4049 |
| Minguo calendar | 196 before ROC 民前196年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 248 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2258–2259 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 1842 or 1461 or 689 — to — མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 1843 or 1462 or 690 |
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1716 (MDCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar.
Events
- August 5 – In the Battle of Peterwardein 40.000 Austrian troops of Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat 150,000 Ottoman Turks under Darnad Ali Pasha
- Pirate Edward Teach the "Blackbeard" raids shipping in the Caribbean
- Natchez, one of the oldest towns on the Mississippi, founded.
- Crieff, Scotland burned to the ground in revenge for the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Sheriffmuir.
- Kangxi Dictionary published this year. This dictionary lays the foundation of most references to Han characters studies nowadays.