1715

Years: 1712 1713 1714 - 1715 - 1716 1717 1718

Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1715 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 1715 MDCCXV Ab urbe condita 2468 Armenian calendar 1164 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԴ Assyrian calendar 6465 Balinese saka calendar 1636–1637 Bengali calendar 1121–1122 Berber calendar 2665 British Regnal year 1 Geo. 1 – 2 Geo. 1 Buddhist calendar 2259 Burmese calendar 1077 Byzantine calendar 7223–7224 Chinese calendar 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4412 or 4205     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4413 or 4206 Coptic calendar 1431–1432 Discordian calendar 2881 Ethiopian calendar 1707–1708 Hebrew calendar 5475–5476 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 1771–1772  - Shaka Samvat 1636–1637  - Kali Yuga 4815–4816 Holocene calendar 11715 Igbo calendar 715–716 Iranian calendar 1093–1094 Islamic calendar 1126–1128 Japanese calendar Shōtoku 5 (正徳５年) Javanese calendar 1638–1639 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 11 days Korean calendar 4048 Minguo calendar 197 before ROC 民前197年 Nanakshahi calendar 247 Thai solar calendar 2257–2258 Tibetan calendar 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1841 or 1460 or 688     — to — 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1842 or 1461 or 689

Events

• July 24 - Spanish treasure fleet of ten ships under admiral Ubilla leave Havana, Cuba for Spain. Three days later nine of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida
• September 1 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years, leaving the throne of his exhausted and indebted country to his great-grandson Louis XV. Regent for the new, five years old monarch is Philippe d'Orléans, nephew of Louis XIV.
• September - First of the major Jacobite Rebellions in Scotland against the rule of King George I. John Erskine, 22nd Earl of Mar raised the standard of James Francis Edward Stuart and marched on Edinburgh. James, the son of the deposed King James VII, briefly arrived from France, but left as it became clear that there was no support for him in England; he took Mar with him, but left most of his supporters behind. (December).
• Colony of Carolina goes to war with the Amerindian tribe of Yamasee
• December 24 - Swedish troops occupy Norway.

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721)

Births

• January 10 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
• January 12 - Jacques Duphly, French composer (d. 1789)
• May 22 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
• September 30 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780)
• October 4 - Victor Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789)
• October 8 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (d. 1774)
• October 23 - Emperor Peter II of Russia (d. 1730)
• November 5 - John Brown, English writer (d. 1766)
• Robert-François Damiens, attempted assassin of Louis XV of France

Deaths

• February 17 - Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (b. 1646)
• February 21 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (b. 1637)
• March 17 - Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (b. 1643)
• May 19 - Charles Montagu, English Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
• July 5 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1659)
• July 30 - Nahum Tate, Irish poet (b. 1652)
• September 1 - François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
• September 1 - King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
• October 13 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)
• October 14 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
• October 15 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (b. 1675)
• December 15 - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642)
• December 28 - William Carstares, Scottish clergyman (b. 1649)