1718 38630 225281450 2008-07-12T21:32:10Z VolkovBot 3035831 robot Adding: [[vo:1718]] {{year nav|{{PAGENAME}}}} {{C18YearInTopicX}} <!-- [[Image: |thumb|140px|right| .]] --> 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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, to allow date-format preferences. --> * [[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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, to allow date-format preferences. --> [[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 &ndash; 3}} <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, to allow date-format preferences. --> *[[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== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, to allow date-format preferences. --> *[[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) {{commonscat}} : ''See also [[:Category: 1718 deaths]].'' 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