Year 1718 (MDCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... Events and Trends The Treaty of Ratisbon between France and England in 1684 ended the Age of Buccaneers. ... Events and Trends Thomas Neale designed Seven Dials The Salem Witchcraft Trials are held in Massachusetts Bay Colony (1692). ... Events and trends The Bonneville Slide blocks the Columbia River near the site of present-day Cascade Locks, Oregon with a land bridge 200 feet (60 m) high. ... Events and Trends World Leaders King Louis XIV of France (1643 - 1715) Philippe II of Orléans, Regent of France (1715 - 1723). ... Events and Trends Manufacture of the earliest surviving pianos. ... Events and Trends The Great Awakening - A Protestant religious movement active in the British colonies of North America Sextant invented (probably around 1730) independently by John Hadley in Great Britain and Thomas Godfrey in the American colonies World leaders Louis XV King of France (king from 1715 to 1774) George... Events and Trends The War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748) rages. ... This page indexes the individual years pages. ... Year 1715 (MDCCXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... // Events August 5 - In the Battle of Peterwardein 40. ... // Events January 4 — The Netherlands, Britain & France sign Triple Alliance February 26-March 6 What is now the northeastern United States was paralyzed by a series of blizzards that buried the region. ... // Events January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe June 10 - Battle of Glen Shiel Prussia conducts Europes first systematic census Miners in Falun, Sweden find an apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused... // Events January 6 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings February 11 - Sweden and Prussia sign the (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) declaring peace. ... // Events Pope Innocent XIII becomes pope Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Brandenburg Concertos April 4 - Robert Walpole becomes the first prime minister of Britain September 10 - Treaty of Nystad is signed, bringing an end to the Great Northern War November 2 - Peter I is proclaimed Emperor of All the Russias... The decade of the 1710s in archaeology involved some significant events. ... The year 1718 in architecture involved some significant events. ... See also: 1717 in art, other 1718 events, 1719 in art, and list of years in art. ... See also: 1717 in literature, other events of 1718, 1719 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1717 in music, other events of 1718, 1719 in music, list of years in music. ... The year 1718 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. ... 1717 state leaders - Events of 1718 - 1719 state leaders - State leaders by year Africa Ashanti Confederacy - Maniampon, Regent (1717-1720) Bunyoro - Olimi III, Omukama of Bunyoro (c. ... 1717 colonial governors - Events of 1718 - 1719 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year See also: List of state leaders in 1718 List of religious leaders in 1718 List of international organization leaders in 1718 Portugal Angola - Henrique de Figueiredo e Alarcão, Governor of Angola (1717-1722) Macau - D.Francisco... Roman numerals are a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals. ... This is the calendar for any common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) e. ... The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world. ... This is the calendar for a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F), e. ... The Julian calendar was introduced in 46 BC by Julius Caesar and came into force in 45 BC (709 ab urbe condita). ...

Events of 1718

January - June

• January - France Declares war on Spain in the two-year War of the Quadruple Alliance.

August 12: Flag of Stede Bonnet.

• May - Blackbeard leads 300 sailors in four ships to blockade the port of Charleston, South Carolina in late May. The Queen Anne's Revenge and Adventure are both lost in Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina one week later. Blackbeard allows Stede Bonnet to once again command the Revenge, which is renamed the Royal James. Bonnet rescues 25 sailors abandoned by Blackbeard on a sandbar and continues his life of piracy.
• June - Blackbeard and Bonnet take refuge in Bath, North Carolina where North Carolina Governor Charles Eden pardons them and their crew.

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July - December

August 12: New Orleans.

• July 21 - Treaty of Passarowitz is signed.
• August 12 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded.
• October - Stede Bonnet and his crew are captured near the mouth of the Cape Fear River and taken to Charleston, South Carolina where they are tried for piracy. All but four of Bonnet's crew are found guilty and sentenced to death.
• October 24 - Stede Bonnet escapes from prison.
• November 8 - 22 of Stede Bonnet's pirate crew are hanged at Charleston.
• November 22 - Citing violations of the amnesty agreement with Blackbeard, Virginia Governor Alexander Spottswood sends a Royal Navy contingent to North Carolina where they battle Blackbeard and his crew in Ocracoke Inlet. Blackbeard is killed in the action after receiving five musketball wounds and 20 sword lacerations.

Dec. 6: Queen Eleonora.

• December 6 - After the death of Charles XII on November 30, Ulrika Eleonora becomes Queen of Sweden.
• December 10 - Stede Bonnet is hanged at Charleston after being recaptured.
• December 17 - Austria, Great Britain, and France declare war on Spain, launching the War of the Quadruple Alliance.

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Undated

• The Funj warrior aristocracy deposes the reigning mek and places one of their own ranks on the throne of Sennar. (History of Sudan)

The Funj were an ethnic group in present day Sudan their origins are not clearly known but they moved into Nubia from south of the swamplands in the early sixteenth century, fleeing pressure from the Shilluk. ... Mek is a three issue comic book miniseries published in 2003 by WildStorm, written by Warren Ellis, pencilled by Steve Rolston and inked by Al Gordon. ... A king of Sennar, 1821 Kingdom of Sennar was a former sultanate in the north of Sudan, which ruled a substantial area of northeast Africa between 1504 and 1821. ... In the history of Sudan, the coming of Islam eventually changed the nature of Sudanese society and facilitated the division of the country into north and south. ...

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721)

Combatants Sweden Ottoman Empire (1710–1714) Ukrainian Cossacks Russia Denmark-Norway Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Saxony after 1718 Prussia Hanover Commanders Charles XII of Sweden Ahmed III Ivan Mazepa Peter the Great Frederick IV of Denmark Augustus II the Strong Strength 77,000 in the beginning of the war. ... Events January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar. ... // Events Pope Innocent XIII becomes pope Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Brandenburg Concertos April 4 - Robert Walpole becomes the first prime minister of Britain September 10 - Treaty of Nystad is signed, bringing an end to the Great Northern War November 2 - Peter I is proclaimed Emperor of All the Russias...

Births

• January 7 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (died 1790)
• January 29 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (died 1794)
• February 17 - Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (died 1790)
• March 31 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (died 1781)
• April 4 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (died 1783)
• April 7 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (died 1800)
• April 20 - David Brainerd, American missionary (died 1747)
• April 24 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (died 1784)
• April 26 - Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (died 1802)
• April 27 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (died 1790)
• May 16 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (died 1799)
• May 17 - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician (died 778)
• May 23 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (died 1783)
• May 30 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (died 1793)
• June 5 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (died 1779)
• June 17 - George Howard, British field marshal (died 1796)
• July 5 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (died 1794)
• July 18 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (died 1808)
• July 31 - John Canton, English physicist (died 1772)
• August 11 - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (died 1791)
• September 18 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (died 1783)
• October 19 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (died 1804)
• October 28 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (died 1793)
• November 3 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (died 1792)
• date unknown - István Hatvani, Hungarian mathematician (died 1786)

See also Category: 1718 births.

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Deaths

• January 6 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (born 1664)
• January 6 - Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (born 1648)
• January 17 - Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler (born c.1639)
• February 1 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (born 1660)
• February 18 - Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (born 1663)
• May 7 - Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (born 1658)
• May 30 - Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of William III of England (born 1670)
• July 28 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (born 1630)
• July 30 - William Penn, American settler, founder of Pennsylvania (born 1644)
• November 22 - Blackbeard, English pirate (born c.1680)
• November 30 - King Charles XII of Sweden (born 1682)
• December 6 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (born 1674)
• December 9 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (born 1650)
• December 19 - Stede Bonnet, the "gentleman pirate" (birth unknown)

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