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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1716
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Events from the year 1716 in Great Britain .
Incumbents
Events
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 . He dismisses
Lord Bolingbroke as his
Secretary of State replacing him with Mar.
[3]
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.
[4]
24 February – execution of the Jacobite leaders
James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater , and
William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure ;
[2] 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).
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[5]
[6]
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
[3] 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
Publications
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
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
References