1718

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"