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Years: 1715 1716 1717 - 1718 - 1719 1720 1721

Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1718 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders ---- From Categories: births - deaths

Events

• July 21 - Treaty of Passarowitz signed
• November 22 - Off the coast of Virginia, English pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle when a British boarding party cornered and then shot and stabbed him more than 25 times.
• November 30 - After the death of Charles XII, Ulrika Eleonora becomes Queen of Sweden
• The Funj warrior aristocracy deposes the reigning MEK and places one of their own ranks on the throne of Sennar. (History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah))

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721)

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 - 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)
• April 30 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (d. 1792)
• May 16 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
• May 17 - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician (d. 778)
• 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)

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
• 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 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
• July 30 - William Penn, American settler, founder of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
• November 22 - Blackbeard, English pirate
• 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 encylopedist (b. 1650)
• Roderick O Flaherty, Irish chieftan and historian (b. 1629)