1718 Calendar
A year scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

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Historical Event(s)

– The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
– James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world’s first machine gun.
– Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great’s son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
– The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
– Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as “Blackbeard”) is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
– Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
– Great Britain declares war on Spain.

Who Were Born On ?

– Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
– Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (d. 1783)
– Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (d. 1800)
– Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)
– Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)
– Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
– William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d. 1783)
– Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808)
– Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
– Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary (d. 1793)