1718 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1718?
- May 7, 1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
- May 15, 1718 – James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world’s first machine gun.
- June 26, 1718 – 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, 1718 – The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
- November 22, 1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as “Blackbeard”) is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
- November 30, 1718 – Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
- December 17, 1718 – Great Britain declares war on Spain.
Who Were Born In The Year 1718?
- January 7, 1718 – Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
- January 29, 1718 – Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
- March 12, 1718 – Joseph Damer, English politician (d. 1798)
- March 31, 1718 – Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain (d. 1781)
- April 4, 1718 – Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (d. 1783)
- April 7, 1718 – Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (d. 1800)
- April 20, 1718 – David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
- April 26, 1718 – Esek Hopkins, Commander of the US Navy during the Revolutionary War (d. 1802)
- April 27, 1718 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)
- May 16, 1718 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
- May 23, 1718 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d. 1783)
- May 30, 1718 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793)
- June 5, 1718 – Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
- June 17, 1718 – George Howard, British field marshal (d. 1796)
- July 5, 1718 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English Viceroy of Ireland (d. 1794)
- July 31, 1718 – John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
- September 18, 1718 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
- October 19, 1718 – Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)
- October 28, 1718 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary (d. 1793)
- November 3, 1718 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (d. 1792)
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