1718
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1718 (MDCCXVIII) was the 718th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1710s decade.
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Events
- Tulip period (21 July 1718 – 28 September 1730) – a tulip craze that symbolized the conflicts of early modern consumer culture in the Ottoman Empire
- November 8 – 22 of Stede Bonnet's pirate crew are hanged at Charleston.
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Art and culture
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Literature
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Fiction
- November 18 – Voltaire's first play, Oedipus, premières at the Comédie-Française in Paris. This is his first use of the pseudonym.
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Non-fiction
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Visual art
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Music
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Architecture
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Births
- François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud (8 September 1718 – 8 November 1805)
- May 23 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d. 1783)
- June 5 – Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
- November 3 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (d. 1792)
- November 28 – Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish writer (d. 1763)
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Deaths
- February 18 – Peter Anthony Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)
- April 21 – Philippe de La Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1640)
- May 7 – Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (b. 1658)
- December 6 – Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)
- December 10 – Stede Bonnet, Barbadian "gentleman pirate" (b. 1688)
- Black Caesar, African pirate
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