1718

1718 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1718; MDCCXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2471
Armenian calendar	1167; ԹՎ ՌՃԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	6468
Balinese saka calendar	1639–1640
Bengali calendar	1124–1125
Berber calendar	2668
British Regnal year	4 Geo. 1 – 5 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar	2262
Burmese calendar	1080
Byzantine calendar	7226–7227
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster); 4415 or 4208; — to —; 戊戌年 (Earth Dog); 4416 or 4209
Coptic calendar	1434–1435
Discordian calendar	2884
Ethiopian calendar	1710–1711
Hebrew calendar	5478–5479
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1774–1775
- Shaka Samvat	1639–1640
- Kali Yuga	4818–4819
Holocene calendar	11718
Igbo calendar	718–719
Iranian calendar	1096–1097
Islamic calendar	1130–1131
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 3; (享保３年)
Javanese calendar	1641–1643
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4051
Minguo calendar	194 before ROC; 民前194年
Nanakshahi calendar	250
Thai solar calendar	2260–2261
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་; (female Fire-Bird); 1844 or 1463 or 691; — to —; ས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་; (male Earth-Dog); 1845 or 1464 or 692

Years:
1715 1716 1717 - 1718 - 1719 1720 1721

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

Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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))

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 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)

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)