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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1716.

Events

  • April 5 – Anne Lefèvre, Madame Dacier, meets Antoine Houdar de la Motte in person.
  • May – Voltaire is exiled to Tulle as a result of his lampoon on the regent of France, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
  • June 21 – Work begins on construction of the Codrington Library at All Souls College, Oxford, to the design of Nicholas Hawksmoor; it will be completed in 1751.
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  • Poet John Byrom returns to Britain to teach his own system of shorthand.
  • Edmund Curll renews his controversy with Matthew Prior by publishing more of the poet's works without permission.
  • The first printed version of the Epic of King Gesar, a Mongolian text, is published in Beijing.

New books

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Prose

  • Richard Blackmore – Essays upon Several Subjects vol. i
  • Thomas Browne – Christian Morals
  • Francis Chute (as Mr. Gay) – The Petticoat (part of Edmund Curll's "phantom Gay" hoax)
  • Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury – Several Letters... to a Young Man at the University
  • John Dennis – A True Character of Mr. Pope, and his Writings (in response to The Essay on Criticism)
  • Theophilus Evans – Drych y Prif Oesoedd (Mirror of the Early Centuries)
  • Amédée-François Frézier – Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux côtes du Chili, du Pérou et de Brésil
  • John Oldmixon – Memoirs of Ireland from the Restoration to the Present Times
  • Onania: or, the heinous sin of self-pollution (approximate date)
  • Alexander Pope – The Iliad of Homer vol. ii
  • Humphrey Prideaux – The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations
  • Jean de la Roque – Voyage dans l’Arabie heureuse
  • Andreas Rüdiger – Göttliche Physik (Divine Physics)
  • George Sewell – A Vindication of the English Stage
  • Johann Georg Walch – Historia critica Latinae linguae
  • Zhang Yushu, Chen Tingjing et al. (ed.) – Kangxi Dictionary (康熙字典)

Drama

  • Joseph Addison – The Drummer
  • Barton Booth – The Death of Dido
  • Christopher Bullock
  • The Cobbler of Preston
  • Woman Is a Riddle
  • José de Cañizares
  • El dómine Lucas
  • Marta la Romarantina
  • El picarillo de España, señor de la Gran Canaria
  • Susanna Centlivre – The Cruel Gift
  • Mary Davys – The Northern Heiress
  • Benjamin Griffin – The Humours of Purgatory (political satire based on The Taming of the Shrew)
  • William Taverner – Everybody Mistaken
  • Lewis Theobald – The Perfidious Brother

Deaths

  • January 5
  • Jean Chardin, French travel writer (born 1643)
  • Hippolyte Hélyot, French historian (born 1660)
  • January 11
  • Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant writer (born 1637)
  • René Massuet, French editor (born 1666)
  • February 19 – Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norwegian poet (born 1634)
  • July 24 – Agnes Campbell, Scottish printer (born 1637)
  • September 15 – Andrew Fletcher, Scottish politician and writer (born 1653)
  • October 21 – Jakob Gronovius, Dutch scholar (born 1645)
  • November 14 – Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1646)
  • December 31 – William Wycherley, English dramatist (born 1641)
  • probable year - Patrick Abercromby, Scottish antiquary and translator (born 1656)

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