Editing 1716 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 16]] &ndash; The application of the [[Nueva Planta decrees]] to [[Catalonia]] make it subject to the laws of the [[Crown of Castile]], and abolishes the [[Principality of Catalonia]] as a political entity, concluding the [[Enlightenment in Spain|unification of Spain]] under [[Philip V of Spain|Philip V]].<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=http://libro.uca.edu/payne2/payne16.htm|title=A History of Spain and Portugal|volume=2|chapter=Chapter 16: The Eighteenth-Century Bourbon Regime in Spain|first=Stanley G|last=Payne|year=1973|location=Madison|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|isbn=0-299-06270-8|access-date=2008-04-17|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofspainpo00payn}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] &ndash; The [[Tugaloo]] massacre changes the course of the [[Yamasee War]], allying the [[Cherokee]] nation with the British [[province of South Carolina]] against the [[Muscogee|Creek]] Indian nation. <ref>William L. Ramsey, ''The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South'' (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)</ref>
* [[January 28]] &ndash; The town of [[Crieff]], Scotland, is burned to the ground by [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]]s returning from the [[Battle of Sheriffmuir]]. <ref>''Crieff, Its Traditions and Characters, with Anecdotes of Strathearn'' (D. McCara, 1881) pp. 302-303</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Burning of The Strathearn Towns & Villages: Part Two|url=http://perthshirecrieffstrathearnlocalhistor.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/burning-of-strathearn-towns-villages.html|work=PertshireCrieffStrathearn Local History|date=2012-07-15|access-date=2013-02-25}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] &ndash; The [[1716 Algiers earthquake]] sequence began with an {{M|w}} 7.0 mainshock that caused severe damage and killed 20,000 in Algeria.<ref name="NGDC">{{cite web |title=Significant Earthquake Information |url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/1203 |website=ngdc.noaa.gov |publisher=NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information |access-date=13 October 2021}}</ref>
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[James Francis Edward Stuart|James Edward Stuart]] flees from Scotland to France with a handful of supporters, following the failure of the [[Jacobite rising of 1715]].
* [[February 24]] &ndash; Jacobite leaders [[James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater]] and [[William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure]] are executed in London.<ref name="People's Chronology, politics">{{cite web|url=http://history.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1716/political-events |title=1716 |work=The People's Chronology |editor=Everett, Jason M. |publisher=Thomson Gale |year=2006 |access-date=2007-05-26 }}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[March 6]] &ndash; At night, an [[aurora borealis]] was seen throughout Europe, from Ireland to Italy.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Winterhalter |first=Elizabeth |date=2020-10-29 |title=When the English Witnessed Battles in the Sky |url=https://daily.jstor.org/when-the-english-witnessed-battles-in-the-sky/ |access-date=2023-08-06 |website=JSTOR Daily |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Briggs |first=J. Morton |date=1967 |title=Aurora and Enlightenment Eighteenth-Century Explanations of the Aurora Borealis |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/228424 |journal=Isis |volume=58 |issue=4 |pages=491–503 |doi=10.1086/350301 |jstor=228424 |s2cid=145608173 |issn=0021-1753}}</ref>
* [[March 8]] &ndash; King [[Charles XII of Sweden]] leads an invasion of [[Norway]], crossing the border at [[Basmo Fortress|Basmo]], near the modern-day town of [[Marker, Norway|Marker]].
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat|Simon Fraser]], a former Scottish rebel who had helped end the [[Siege of Inverness (1715)|Siege of Inverness]] during the [[Jacobite rising of 1715|first Jacobite rising]], is given a pardon by King George I of Great Britain. <ref>Sarah Fraser, ''The Last Highlander: Scotland's Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent'' (HarperCollins, 2012) p. 174</ref>
* [[March 18]] &ndash; Italian Jesuit missionary [[Ippolito Desideri]] arrives in [[Lhasa]] to become one of the first Europeans to attempt to bring Christianity to Buddhist [[Tibet]]. <ref>Flippo De Filippi, ''An Account of Tibet: The Travels of Ippolito Desideri'' (Routledge & Sons, 1931) pp. 50-52</ref>
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Jeremias III of Constantinople|Jeremias III]] becomes the new [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]], leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church.