In the year 1718, English pirate Blackbeard blockades the port of Charleston, South Carolina (May), New Orleans is founded (May 7), Voltaire’s first play, Oedipus, premiers in Paris (Nov 11), Blackbeard is killed in action in North Carolina (Nov 22), King Charles XII of Sweden dies (Nov 30) whereupon Ulrika Eleonora proclaims herself Queen regnant of Sweden (Dec 5) - and all these fine people were born:

1718-0213 George Brydges Rodney (B) nobleman/naval officer - Walton-on-Thames, Sussex, England (1792/74) 1718-0226 Johan Ernst Gunnerus* bishop/botanist - Christiania, Norway (1773/55) 1718-0301 1718-0310 1718-0331 Mariana Victoria of Spain* Queen of Portugal as the wife of King Joseph I - Madrid, Spanish Empire (1781/62) 1718-0407 Hugh Blair* minister/ author/rhetorician - Edinburgh, Scotland (1800/82) 1718-0420 David Brainerd* Presbyterian minister/missionary to Native Americans - Haddam, Connecticut Colony (1747/29) 1718-0424 Nathaniel Hone the elder* portrait and miniature painter - Dublin, Ireland (1784/66) 1718-0427 Thomas Lewis* pioneer of early Virginia - County Donegal, Ireland (1790/71) 1718-0531 Jacob Christian Schäffer* dean/botanist/inventor - Querfurt, Germany (1790/71) 1718-0601 Anders Odel* (b Odhelius) industrialist/painter/composer - Skövde, Sweden (1773/55) 1718-0605 Thomas Chippendale* furniture maker - Otley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (1779) 1718-0731 John Canton* physicist - Stroud, Gloucestershire, England (1772/53) 1718-1002 Louisa Catharina Harkort* ironmaster/entrepreneur - Hattingen, Germany (1795/76) 1718-1101 1718-1110 1718-1113 John Montagu* 4th Earl of Sandwich/military leader/statesman after whom sandwich is named - Chiswick, Middlesex, England (1792/73) 1718-1120 1718-1128 Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht* poet/feminist/salon hostess - Stockholm, Sweden (1763/44) 1718-1130 1718-0 1718-0 1718-0 Updated 2025-0420 Helsinki Search for more years here