1718

This article is about the year 1718.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1680s  1690s  1700s  – 1710s –  1720s  1730s  1740s
Years:	1715 1716 1717 – 1718 – 1719 1720 1721

1718 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Russia – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1718 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1718 MDCCXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2471
Armenian calendar	1167 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	6468
Bengali calendar	1125
Berber calendar	2668
British Regnal year	4 Geo. 1 – 5 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar	2262
Burmese calendar	1080
Byzantine calendar	7226–7227
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4414 or 4354     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4415 or 4355
Coptic calendar	1434–1435
Discordian calendar	2884
Ethiopian calendar	1710–1711
Hebrew calendar	5478–5479
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1774–1775
- Shaka Samvat	1640–1641
- Kali Yuga	4819–4820
Holocene calendar	11718
Igbo calendar	718–719
Iranian calendar	1096–1097
Islamic calendar	1130–1131
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 3 (享保３年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4051
Minguo calendar	194 before ROC 民前194年
Thai solar calendar	2260–2261

1718 (MDCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E) of the Julian calendar, the 1718th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 718th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1710s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1718 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• January – France declares war on Spain, leading to the 2-year War of the Quadruple Alliance.

December 10: Flag of Stede Bonnet.

• May – English pirate Blackbeard leads 400 sailors in four ships to blockade the port of Charleston, South Carolina. The Queen Anne's Revenge and Adventure are both lost at Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, a week later. Blackbeard allows Stede Bonnet to command the Revenge (which is renamed the Royal James) once again. Bonnet rescues 25 sailors abandoned by Blackbeard on a sandbar and continues his life of piracy.
• May 7 – New Orleans, is founded.
• June – Blackbeard and Bonnet take refuge in Bath, North Carolina, where Governor Charles Eden pardons them and their crew.

July–December

May 7: New Orleans

• July 21 – The Treaty of Passarowitz is signed.
• August 11 – Battle of Cape Passaro: a Spanish fleet is defeated by the British Royal Navy under Admiral George Byng off Capo Passero, Sicily, a prelude to the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
• September – The Dzungar Khanate destroys a Qing army at the Battle of the Salween River.
• 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 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 11 – Lightning strikes the powder magazine at the Old Fortress, Corfu, causing a major catastrophe on the island.
• November 18 – Voltaire's first play, Oedipus, premières at the Comédie-Française in Paris. This is his first use of the pseudonym.
• November 22 – Citing violations of the amnesty agreement with Blackbeard, Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood sends a Royal Navy contingent to North Carolina, where they battle Blackbeard and his crew in Ocracoke Inlet. Blackbeard is killed in action after receiving five musketball wounds and twenty sword lacerations.

Dec. 6: Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden

• December 5 – Following the death of Charles XII on November 30, his sister Ulrika Eleonora proclaims herself Queen regnant of Sweden, as the news of her brother's death reaches Stockholm.
• December 10 – Stede Bonnet is hanged at Charleston after being recaptured.
• December 17 – The Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Great Britain and Dutch Republic join the Kingdom of France in formally declaring war on Spain, launching the War of the Quadruple Alliance.

Date unknown

• Islamization of Sudan: The Funj warrior aristocracy deposes the reigning mek and places one of their own ranks on the throne of Sennar.
• The white potato reaches New England from England.

Births

• January 7 – Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
• January 29 – Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
• February 17 – Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1790)
• March 31 – Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain, queen regent of Portugal (d. 1781)
• April 4 – Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (d. 1783)
• April 7 – Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (d. 1800)
• April 20 – David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
• April 24 – Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)
• April 26 – Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (d. 1802)
• April 27 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)
• May 16 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
• May 17 – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician (d. 1778)
• May 23 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d. 1783)
• May 30 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793)
• June 5 – Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
• June 17 – George Howard, British field marshal (d. 1796)
• July 5 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (d. 1794)
• July 18 – Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808)
• July 31 – John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
• August 11 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791)
• September 18 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
• October 19 – Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)
• October 28 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (d. 1793)
• November 3 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (d. 1792)
• November 28 – Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish writer (d. 1763)
• date unknown – István Hatvani, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1786)

Deaths

• January 6 – Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
• January 6 – Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
• January 17 – Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military officer (b. c. 1639)
• February 1 – Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (b. 1660)
• February 18 – Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)
• May 7 – Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (b. 1658)
• May 30 – Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of William III of England (b. 1670)
• July 28 – Étienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
• July 30 – William Penn, American settler, founder of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
• November 22 – Blackbeard, English pirate (b. c. 1680)
• November 30 – King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
• December 6 – Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)
• December 9 – Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encyclopedist (b. 1650)
• December 10 – Stede Bonnet, the "gentleman pirate"
• date unknown – Black Caesar, African pirate