In history, year 1718 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1718.
Top Historical Events of the Year 1718 ⚡:
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
|---|
| 22 november | The pirate Blackbeard was killed in battle by a boarding partyof British sailors off the coast of North Carolina, ending his reign ofterror in the Caribbean. |
| 09 January | France declared a fight against Spain. |
| 17 January | The avalanche destroyed kai buildings in Lookerbud, Switz, and 53 people died. |
| 15 May | James Pakley, a London lawyer who built the world's first machine gun. |
| 26 June | Tsarevich Aleksei Petrovich Peter's great son from Russia was sentenced for his father's death. |
| 21 July | The Treaty of Pasarowitz was signed between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice. |
| 11 August | Battle of Cape Passers: The British fleet destroyed Sicily of the Spanish. |
| 15 September | Dzinger Khanate destroyed a king's army at the Battle of the Salween River. |
| 20 October | Stede Bonnet and his crew were captured near the mouth of the Cape Fear River and transported to Charleston, South Carolina, from where everyone was convicted and sentenced to death for trying for the robbery. |
| 22 November | Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood sent a Royal Navy contingent to North Carolina, citing a violation of the amnesty agreement with Blackbeard, where he battled Blackbeard and his crew at Oakrock Inlet. Blackbeard killed in action. |
| 17 December | The Empire of the Roman Empire, Great Britain and the Dutch Republic France formally joined France in declaring Spain's war, triggering a quadruple coalition war. |
Famous birthdays in the year 1718:
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 02 October | Elizabeth Montagu / Author / United Kingdom |
| 04 April | Benjamin Kennicott / Scholar / United Kingdom |
| 05 July | Francis Seymour-Conway / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 07 April | Hugh Blair / Author / Scotland |
| 07 January | Israel Putnam / General / United States of America |
| 11 August | Frederick Haldimand / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 17 May | Robert Darcy / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 17 June | George Howard / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 19 October | Victor-François / Politician / France |
| 20 April | David Brainerd / Missionary / United States of America |
| 21 November | Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg / Composer / Germany |
| 23 May | William Hunter / Physician / United Kingdom |
| 24 April | Nathaniel Hone the Elder / Painter / United Kingdom |
| 26 April | Esek Hopkins / Soldier / United States of America |
| 26 February | Johan Ernst Gunnerus / Zoologist / Norway |
| 27 April | Thomas Lewis / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 29 January | Paul Rabaut / Pastor / France |
| 29 September | Nikita Ivanovich Panin / Politician / Russia |
| 30 May | Wills Hill / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 31 July | John Canton / Academic / United Kingdom |