1718
Events May 15 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, demonstrates the Puckle Gun. 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
Ongoing events Great Northern War (1700-1721)
Births May 16 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician (d. 1799) September 18 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
DeathsJuly 30 - William PennNovember 22 - Blackbeard the pirateNovember 30 - Charles XII of SwedenDecember 6 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674) Roderick O Flaherty, Irish chieftan, historian
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