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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 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^[1]
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.^[2]
Poet John Byrom returns to England to teach his own system of shorthand.
Edmund Curll renews his controversy with Matthew Prior by threatening to publish the poet's works without permission.
Dramatist Philippe Néricault Destouches comes to London as an attaché to the French embassy.
First printed version of the Epic of King Gesar, a Mongolian text, is published in Beijing.^[3]
Ballet master John Weaver revives the pantomime genre at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London with The Loves of Mars and Venus – a new Entertainment in Dancing after the manner of the Antient Pantomimes and Perseus and Andromeda.

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)
John Oldmixon – Memoirs of Ireland from the Restoration to the Present Times
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
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)

Joseph Addison – The Drummer
Barton Booth – The Death of Dido
Mary Davys – The Northern Heiress
Benjamin Griffin – The Humours of Purgatory
Aaron Hill – The Fatal Vision
John Hughes – Apollo and Daphne
Charles Johnson – The Cobler of Preston (political satire based on The Taming of the Shrew)
Voltaire – Oedipe
José de Cañizares
- El dómine Lucas
- Marta la Romarantina
- El picarillo de España, señor de la Gran Canaria

January 20 – Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (died 1795)
March 6 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish/Finnish botanist, naturalist and travel writer (died 1779)
December 25 – Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (died 1774)
December 26

Unknown dates

- Thomas Gray, English poet (died 1771)
- Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet, philosopher and military officer (died 1803)
- Yosa Buson (与謝蕪村), Japanese Edo period haiku poet and painter (died 1784)

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 of death – Patrick Abercromby, Scottish antiquary and translator (born 1656)

↑ "Cliffs Notes Study Guide: Candide". Archived from the original on 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
↑ "Library Architecture". The Codrington Library. Oxford: All Souls College. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
↑ Harvilahti, Lauri (1996). "Epos and National Identity: Transformations and Incarnations" (PDF). Oral Tradition. Beijing. 11 (1): 43.

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