March 1 » Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
April 15 » Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Royalist Army.
May 17 » Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve (1612–1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
August 22 » Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War.
September 23 » The first commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
November 24 » Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
January 4 » The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance in an attempt to maintain the Treaty of Utrecht; Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on November 28 (November 17, 1716).
March 2 » The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
July 17 » King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
August 17 » Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18: The month-long Siege of Belgrade ends with Prince Eugene of Savoy's Austrian troops capturing the city from the Ottoman Empire.
August 22 » Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
September 29 » An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture.
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