1718

1718 (MDCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1718th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 718th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1710s decade. As of the start of 1718, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1718 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1718 MDCCXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2471
Armenian calendar	1167 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	6468
Balinese saka calendar	1639–1640
Bengali calendar	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) 4414 or 4354     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4415 or 4355
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

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"