The year 1716 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Chemistry

Johann von Löwenstern-Kunckel publishes his handbook of experimental chemistry, Collegium physico-chymicum experimentale, oder, Laboratorium chymicum, in Germany.

Events

Tsar Peter the Great of Russia studies with the physician Herman Boerhaave at Leiden University.

Births

January 12 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish explorer (d. 1795)
March 6 - Pehr Kalm, Swedish botanist and explorer (d. 1779)
May 29 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (d. 1799)
c. August 18 - Johan Maurits Mohr, Dutch astronomer (d. 1775)
October 3 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
December 27 - Leonardo Ximenes, Tuscan polymath (d. 1786)
James Brindley, English engineer (d. 1772)

Deaths

November 14 - Gottfried Leibniz, German scientist and mathematician (b. 1646)