1718

1718 was a common year.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1680s  1690s  1700s  – 1710s –  1720s  1730s  1740s
Years:	1715 1716 1717 – 1718 – 1719 1720 1721

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.
• December 17 – Austria, Great Britain, and France declare war on Spain, launching the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
• 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))

Births

• March 31 - Mariana Victoria of Spain, queen regent of Portugal (d. 1781)
• November 3 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (d. 1792)

Deaths

• May 7 - Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (b. 1658)
• July 30 - William Penn, American settler, founder of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
• November 22 - Blackbeard, English pirate (b. c. 1680)
• November 30 - King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
• December 10 - Stede Bonnet, the "gentleman pirate"