Editing 1715 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 13]] &ndash; A fire in London, described by some as the worst since the [[Great Fire of London]] (1666) almost 50 years earlier, starts on [[Thames Street, London|Thames Street]] when fireworks prematurely explode "in the house of Mr. Walker, an oil man"; more than 100 houses are consumed in the blaze, which continues over to [[Great Tower Street|Tower Street]] before it is controlled.<ref>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p48-49</ref> 
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[1715 British general election|Voting begins for the British House of Commons]] and continues for the next 46 days in different constituencies on different days.
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Tuscarora War]]: The Tuscarora and their allies sign a peace treaty with the [[Province of North Carolina]], and agree to move to a reservation near [[Lake Mattamuskeet]], effectively ending the Tuscarora War.  Large numbers of Tuscarora subsequently move to New York.
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[1715 British general election|Voting for the British House of Commons]] concludes, with the liberal [[Whig Junto|Whig Party]] winning 341 of the 558 seats, and reducing the conservative Tory Party share to 217 seats.  [[Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington|Spencer Compton]], the Earl of Wilmington, becomes the Speaker of the House of Commons.
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[James Francis Edward Stuart|James Stuart]], the "Old Pretender" attempting to restore the House of Stuart to control of Great Britain as King James III of England and James VIII of Scotland, meets with Pope Clement XI for the assistance of the Roman Catholic Church in the [[Jacobite rising of 1715|Jacobite rising]].
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke]], flees from Great Britain to France. His part in secret negotiations with France, leading to the [[Treaty of Utrecht]], has cast suspicion on him in the eyes of the [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]] government of Britain. He becomes secretary of state to the [[Pretender]], [[James Francis Edward Stuart|James Edward Stuart]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology294295">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/294|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/294 294–295]}}</ref>