History
1718
General
Population: 676 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Colley Cibber (comedy), Voltaire improsoned in Bastille and writes Edipe, Philibert-Joseph Le Roux (dictionary of burlesque, satire, and proverbs)
Art includes Kneller "Duke of Norfolk", Watteau "Parc Fete"
Music includs Handel becomes Kappelmeister to Duke of Chandos
- Science: Etienne Geoffroy presents tables of affinities to the Academie
- Technology: Thomas Lonbe patents machine which makes thrown silk
First machine gun patented by James Puckle
- Deaths: Quaker William Penn, Charles XII of Sweden, Dramatist PA Motteux, Poet Nicholas Rowe,
Americas
- Caribbean: Mt Soufriere erupts on St. Vincent Island
Europe
- General: England declares war on Spain
Quadruple alliance signed by France HRE England and Holland – fighting against Spain
Spain takes Sicily from Savoy
- France: Plague outbreak called "Picardy Sweat" also in 1861
- Great Britain: London Society of Antiquaries founded
First bank notes in England
"The Leeds Mercury" published
- Holy Roman Empire: War with Turkey
Porcelain manufactured for first time outside of China in Vienna
Treaty of Passarowitz ends war between Turkey and Austria
- Italian States: Accademia dei Scienze Lettere ed Arti founded at Palermo
- Russia: Peter the Great has son and heir Alexis murdered
- Sweden: Death of Charles XII of Sweden in fight with Norway
- Switzerland: Killer Avalanche
Middle East
- General: Peace of Passarowitz ends war between Empire and Turkey
East
- Connecticut: Collegiate School of America transferred to New Haven and renamed Yale
- Pennsylvania: Death of William Penn – Quaker founder - Hannah Penn helps the society stick together
South
- Louisiana: New Orleans founded by French under de Bienville
- Texas: Dispute between Spanish and French over Texas begins - Spain takes