Editing 1716 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Habsburg monarchy|Austria]], ruled by King Charles VI, renews its alliance with the [[Republic of Venice]], leading the [[Ottoman Empire]], ruled by [[Ahmed III]], to declare war.
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[John Law (economist)|John Law]] founds the [[Banque Générale|Banque Générale Privée]] in [[Paris]].<ref>John Philip Wood, ''Memoirs of the life of John Law of Lauriston, including a detailed account of the rise, progress and termination of the Mississippi System'' (Adam Black Publishing, 1824) p.26</ref>
* [[May 26]] &ndash;  Two regular companies of field artillery, each 100 men strong, are raised at [[Woolwich]], by Royal Warrant of King [[George I of Great Britain]].
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]], suffers a [[paralytic stroke]].
* [[June 9]] &ndash; In [[India]], 600 imprisoned members of the failed [[Sikhism|Sikh]] [[Khalsa]] rebellion against the [[Mughal Empire]] are executed on orders of the Emperor [[Farrukhsiyar]].<ref>Louis E. Fenech, ''The Cherished Five in Sikh History'' (Oxford University Press, 2021) p. 91</ref> [[Banda Singh Bahadur]], leader of the rebellion, is brutally tortured and mutilated before being killed.<ref>Ganda Singh, ''Life of Banda Singh Bahadur: Based on Contemporary and Original Records'' (Sikh History Research Department, 1935) p. 229</ref>
* [[June 19]] &ndash; The new [[Tokugawa Shogunate|Tokugawa Shogun of Japan]], [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]], assumes control of the monarchy's military after the illness and death of the six-year-old [[Tokugawa Ietsugu|Ietsugu]], last of the male descendants of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]].<ref>Timon Screech, ''Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822'' (RoutledgeCurzon, 2006) p. 97 </ref> Yoshimune's ascendancy begins Year 1 of the [[Kyōhō]] Era, which continues until Year 21 in [[1736]].
* [[June 25]] &ndash; With the Holy Roman Empire having been ceded the "Southern Netherlands" (now [[Belgium]]) from Spain, [[Prince Eugene of Savoy]] arrives in [[Brussels]] as the first Governor-General of the [[Austrian Netherlands]]. Eugene soon returns home and leaves administration of the area to a dictatorial [[Hercule-Louis Turinetti, marquis of Prié|Hercule-Louis Turinetti]].<ref>"England and the Ostend Company", by Gerald B. Hertz, ''The English Historical Review'' (April 1907) pp. 256-257</ref>