Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1718
Birthdays
- January 7 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
- January 29 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
- February 17 - Matthew Tilghman, American Continental Congressman (d. 1790)
- March 12 - Joseph Damer, English politician (d. 1798)
- March 31 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, 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
- May 23 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d. 1783)
- May 30 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire
- 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
- July 18 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808)
- July 31 - John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
- August 11 - Sir 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
- October 28 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary (d. 1793)
- November 3 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
Deaths
- January 6 - Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
- January 6 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
- January 17 - Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader
- February 1 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury
- February 18 - Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)
- May 7 - Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (b. 1658)
- May 30 - Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle
- July 28 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
- July 30 - William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
- August 4 - René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski
- November 22 - Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate (b. 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 encylopaedist (b. 1650)
Events
- May 7 - The city of New Orleans was founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville .
- May 15 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
- June 26 - Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
- July 21 - The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
- November 22 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
- November 30 - Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
- December 17 - Great Britain declares war on Spain.
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