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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^[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]
unknown dates
- 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.^[3]
- The first printed version of the Epic of King Gesar, a Mongolian text, is published in Beijing.^[4]

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)

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
- Thomas Gray, English poet (died 1771)
- Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet, philosopher and military officer (died 1803)
unknown date – Yosa Buson (与謝蕪村), Japanese Edo period haiku poet and painter (died 1784)^[8]

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)^[9]
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)

^ "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.
^ Margaret J. M. Ezell (14 September 2017). The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: the Later Seventeenth Century. Oxford University Press. p. 468. ISBN 978-0-19-818311-2.
^ Harvilahti, Lauri (1996). "Epos and National Identity: Transformations and Incarnations" (PDF). Oral Tradition. 11 (1). Beijing: 43. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
^ Seamus Deane; Angela Bourke; Andrew Carpenter; Jonathan Williams (2002). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. NYU Press. p. 830. ISBN 978-0-8147-9907-9.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e William J. Burling (1992). A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 60–62. ISBN 978-0-8386-3451-6.
^ Holger Michael Klein; Christopher Norman Smith; Christopher Smith (1994). The Opera and Shakespeare. E. Mellen Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-7734-9016-1.
^ Cheryl A. Crowley (2007). Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Bashō Revival. Brill. p. 35. ISBN 90-04-15709-3.
^ Revue d'histoire du droit. Wolters-Noordhoff N.V. 1997. p. 472.