List of colonial governors in 1716
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France

  • Louisiana
    Louisiana
    Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

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    1. Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac
      Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac
      Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac was a French explorer and adventurer in New France, now an area of North America stretching from Eastern Canada in the north to Louisiana in the south. Rising from a modest beginning in Acadia in 1683 as an explorer, trapper, and a trader of alcohol...

      , Governor of Louisiana (1713-1716)
    2. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville
      Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville
      Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienvillepronounce] was a colonizer, born in Montreal, Quebec and an early, repeated governor of French Louisiana, appointed 4 separate times during 1701-1743. He was a younger brother of explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville...

      , Governor of Louisiana (1716-1717)
  • Saint-Domingue
    Saint-Domingue
    The labour for these plantations was provided by an estimated 790,000 African slaves . Between 1764 and 1771, the average annual importation of slaves varied between 10,000-15,000; by 1786 it was about 28,000, and from 1787 onward, the colony received more than 40,000 slaves a year...

    - Louis de Courbon, comte de Blénac, Governor-General of Saint-Domingue (1714-1717)

Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

  • Bombay - Charles Boone
    Charles Boone
    Charles Boone was a British governor of the Bombay Presidency during the period of the Honourable East India Company, serving from 1715 to 1722....

    , Governor of Bombay (1715-1722)
  • Massachusetts -
    1. William Tailer
      William Tailer
      William Tailer was a military officer and politician in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Born into the wealthy and influential Stoughton family, he twice married into other politically powerful families. He served as lieutenant governor of the province from 1711 until 1716, and again in the...

      , Acting Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1715-1716)
    2. Samuel Shute
      Samuel Shute
      Samuel Shute was a military officer and royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. After serving in the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession, he was appointed by King George I as governor of Massachusetts in 1716...

      , Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1716-1723)

Oman

  • Mombasa
    Mombasa
    Mombasa is the second-largest city in Kenya. Lying next to the Indian Ocean, it has a major port and an international airport. The city also serves as the centre of the coastal tourism industry....

    - Nasr ibn Abdallah al-Mazru‘i, Wali of Mombasa (1698-1728)

Portugal

  • Angola
    Angola
    Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

    - João Manuel de Noronha, Governor of Angola (1713-1717)
  • Macau
    Macau
    Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...

    - D.Francisco de Alarcao Sotto-Maior, Governor of Macau
    Governor of Macau
    The Governor of Macau was a Portuguese colonial official who headed the colony of Macau, before 1623 called Captain-major . The post was replaced on December 20, 1999 upon the transfer of administration to the People's Republic of China by the office of the Chief Executive of the Macau Special...

     (1714-1718)

Netherlands

  • Dutch East Indies
    Dutch East Indies
    The Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II. It was formed from the nationalised colonies of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Netherlands government in 1800....

    - Christoffel van Swoll
    Christoffel van Swoll
    Christoffel van Swoll was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 17 November 1713 until his death.He was born in 1663 in Amsterdam. On 19 December 1683, he left for Batavia on board the Juffrouw Anna as an assistant in the service of the Dutch East India Company. He arrived in Batavia on...

    , Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1713-1718)
  • Zeylan -
    1. Hendrik Bekker, Governor of Zeylan (1707-1716)
    2. Isaak Augustyn Rumpf, Governor of Zeylan (1716-1723)
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