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Year '''1718''' ('''[[Roman numerals|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]]).
== Events of {{PAGENAME}} ==
===January - June===
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* [[January]] - [[France]] declares war on [[Spain]] leading to the two-year [[War of the Quadruple Alliance]].
*[[January 19]] - [[Lady Mary Wortley Montagu]] gives birth to a daughter.
[[Image:Pirate Flag of Stede Bonnet.svg|thumb|140px|right| [[December 10]]: Flag of [[Stede Bonnet]].]]
* [[May]] - [[Blackbeard]] leads 300 sailors in four ships to blockade the port of [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[South Carolina]], in late May. The ''[[Queen Anne's Revenge]]'' and ''Adventure'' are both lost at [[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 Governor [[Charles Eden]] pardons them and their crew.
===July - December===
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[[Image:New Orleans PD 1.jpg|thumb|200px|right| [[August 12]]: [[New Orleans, Louisiana|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 action after receiving five musketball wounds and 20 sword lacerations.
[[Image:Ulrika Eleonora.jpg|thumb|110px|right| [[December 6|Dec. 6]]: Queen [[Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden|Eleonora]].]]
* [[December 6]] - After the death of Charles XII on [[November 30]], [[Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden|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]].
===Undated===
* The [[Funj]] warrior aristocracy deposes the reigning ''[[mek]]'' and places one of their own ranks on the throne of [[Kingdom of Sennar|Sennar]]. ([[History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah)|History of Sudan]])
*White potato reaches [[New England]] from [[England]].
==Ongoing events==
* [[Great Northern War]] ([[1700]]-[[1721]])
==Births==
{{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Kyoho|Kyōhō]] 2 – 3}}
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*[[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 the Elder|Nathaniel Hone]], Irish-born painter (died [[1784]])
*[[April 26]] - [[Esek Hopkins]], American Revolutionary War admiral (died [[1802]])
*[[April 27]] - [[Thomas Lewis (Virginia)|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 (anatomist)|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 (soldier)|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]])
*[[November 5]] - [[Tristram Shandy]], the [[eponymous]] character of [[Laurence Sterne]]'s [[1760]] [[novel]].
*''date unknown'' - [[István Hatvani]], Hungarian mathematician (died [[1786]])
: ''See also [[:Category: 1718 births]].''
==Deaths==
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*[[January 6]] - [[Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina]], Italian writer and jurist (born [[1664]])
*[[January 6]] - [[Richard Hoare]], English goldsmith and banker (born [[1648]])
*[[January 17]] - [[Benjamin Church (military officer)|Captain Benjamin Church]], Plymouth Colony settler and military officer (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 (dramatist)|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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: ''See also [[:Category: 1718 deaths]].''
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