List of state leaders in 1717

1716 state leaders - Events of 1717 - 1718 state leaders - State leaders by year ----

Africa

* Ashanti Confederacy -
*# Osei Kofi Tutu I, Asantehene (1701-1717)
*# Maniampon, Regent (1717-1720)
* Bunyoro - Olimi III, Omukama of Bunyoro (c.1710-1731)
* Dahomey - Agadja, King of Dahomey (1708-1732)
* Ethiopia - Dawit III, Emperor of Ethiopia, (1716-1721)
* Nkore - Ntare IV Omugabe of Nkole, (c.1699-c.1727)

Asia

* China (Qing Dynasty) - Kangxi, Emperor of China (1662-1722)
* Japan
**Monarch - Nakamikado, Emperor of Japan (1709-1735)
**Shogun (Tokugawa) - Tokugawa Yoshimune, Shogun of Japan (1716-1745)
**Ryūkyū Kingdom - Shō Kei, King of Ryūkyū (1713-1751)
*Kokand - Shahrukh Biy, Khan of Kokand (1709-1721)
*Korea (Joseon Dynasty) - Sukjong, King of Joseon (1674-1720)

Europe

* Denmark–Norway -
** Monarch - Frederick IV, King of Denmark (1699-1730)
** Prime Minister - Christian Christophersen Sehested, Chancellor of Denmark (1708-1721)
*France - Louis XV, King of France (1715-1774)
* Great Britain -
**Monarch - George I, King of Great Britain (1714-1727)
**Prime Minister -
**#Robert Walpole, First Lord of the Treasury (1715-1717)
**#James Stanhope, First Lord of the Treasury (1717-1718)
*Holy Roman Empire - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1711-1740)
*Electors
** Bavaria -
** Bohemia -
** Brandenburg -
** Cologne -
** Hanover -
** Mainz -
** Saxony -
** Trier -
*Princes
** Anhalt-Bernburg -
** Anhalt-Dessau - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1693-1747)
** Anhalt-Köthen -
** Anhalt-Zerbst -
** Arenberg - Leopold, Duke of Arenberg (1691-1754)
** Auersperg - Heinrich Joseph Johann, Prince of Auersperg (1713-1783)
** Augsburg -
** Austria -
** Baden-Baden - Ludwig Georg Simpert, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1707-1761)
** Baden-Durlach -
** Bamberg -
** Berchtesgaden -
** Brandenburg-Ansbach -
** Brandenburg-Bayreuth -
** Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel -
** Constance -
** Corvey -
** Eichstätt -
** Ellwangen -
** Freising -
** Fulda -
** Fürstenberg - Joseph Wilhelm Ernst, Prince of Fürstenberg (1716-1762, Count 1704-1716)
** Heitersheim -
** Hesse-Darmstadt -
** Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) -
** Hildesheim -
** Hohenzollern-Hechingen -
** Holstein-Glückstadt -
** Holstein-Gottorp -
** Kempten -
** Lübeck -
** Mecklenburg-Schwerin - Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1713-1747)
** Mecklenburg-Strelitz - Adolf Friedrich III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1708-1752)
** Mergentheim -
** Münster -
** Nassau-Orange - Wilhelm IV, Prince of Nassau-Orange (1711-1751)
** Oldenburg -
** Osnabrück -
** Paderborn -
** Palatinate -
** Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken -
** Palatinate-Sulzbach -
** Passau -
** Regensburg -
** Salm-Kyrburg -
** Salm-Salm -
** Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld -
** Saxe-Gotha -
** Saxe-Hildburghausen -
** Saxe-Meiningen - Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1706-1763)
** Saxe-Weimar -
** Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt -
** Schwarzburg-Sondershausen -
** Speyer -
** Strassburg - Guillaume Gaston I Cardinal de Rohan-Soubise, Prince-Bishop of Strassburg (1704-1749)
** Worms -
** Württemberg -
** Würzburg -

*Counts and Prelates
** Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym -
** Bentheim -
** Bentheim-Steinfurt -
** Essen - )
** Gandersheim -
** Gutenzell - Elisabeth Christine of Saxe-Meiningen, Princess-Abbess of Gandersheim (1713-1766)
** Herford -
** Hesse-Homburg -
** Hohenlohe-Bartenstein -
** Hohenlohe-Langenburg - Ludwig, Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1715-1764, Prince 1764-1765)
** Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen -
** Hohenlohe-Öhringen - Johann Friedrich II, Count of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1702-1764
** Hohenlohe-Weikersheim - Carl Ludwig, Count of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (1702-1756)
** Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst -
** Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen - Joseph Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1715-1769)
** Hoogstraten -
** Isenburg - Ernst Kasimir, Count of Isenburg (1708-1749)
** Isenburg-Birstein - Wolfgang Ernst I, Prince of Isenburg-Birstein 1711-1744. (1744-1754)
** Isenburg-Meerholz -
** Isenburg-Wächtersbach - Ferdinand Maximilian II, Count of Isenburg-Wächtersbach (1703-1755)
** Kaisersheim -
** Käppel -
** Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Billigheim - Johann Franz, Count of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Billigheim (1699-1750)
** Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim - Christian Karl Reinhard, Count of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim (1698-1766)
** Leiningen-Dachsburg-Hartenburg -
** Leiningen-Emichsburg -
** Lindau -
** Lippe-Alverdissen -
** Lippe-Biesterfeld -
** Lippe-Detmold -
** Lippe-Weissenfeld -
** Nassau-Saarbrücken -
** Nassau-Usingen -
** Nassau-Weilburg -
** Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen -
** Quedlinburg - Maria Elisabeth von Holstein-Gottorp, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (1710-1755)
** Reuss-Ebersdorf - Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf (1711-1747)
** Reuss-Gera -
** Reuss-Lobenstein -
** Reuss-Obergreiz -
** Reuss-Schleiz -
** Reuss-Untergreiz -
** Salm-Dhaun -
** Salm-Dyck -
** Salm-Grumbach -
** Salm-Leuze - Philipp Joseph, Prince of Salm-Leuze (1716-1779)
** Salm-Reifferscheid -
** Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg -
** Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein -
** Schaumburg-Lippe -
** Stolberg-Rossla -
** Stolberg-Stolberg -
** Stolberg-Wernigerode - Christian Ernst, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1710-1771)
** Waldeck-Pyrmont -
** Weingarten -
** Westerburg-Leiningen-Neu-Leiningen (Bavaria Line) -
** Westerburg-Leiningen-Neu-Leiningen (Nassau Line) -
** Wied -

*Portugal - John V, King of Portugal (1706-1750)
* Prussia - Frederick William I, King of Prussia (1713-1740)
*Russia - Peter I, Tsar of Russia, (1682-1725)
*Spain - Philip V, King of Spain (1700-1724, 1724-1746)
* Sweden -
**Monarch - Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718)
**Prime Minister - Arvid Horn, President of the Privy Council Chancellery (1710-1738)
* United Provinces
**Estates of Friesland, Groningen, Guelders, Holland, Overijssel, Utrecht, Zeeland (1581-1795)
**Grand Pensionary of Holland - Anthonie Heinsius (1689-1720)
*** Friesland - Willem IV, Stadtholder of Friesland (1711-1751)

Middle East and North Africa

* Morocco - Ismail, Sultan of Morocco (1684-1727)
* Ottoman Empire
**Monarch - Ahmed III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1703-1730)
**Grand Vizier -
**# Haci Halil Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier (1716-1717)
**# Nisanci Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier (1717-1718)