March 8 » Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark–Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
May 29 » Battle of Samugarh: decisive battle in the struggle for the throne during the Mughal war of succession (1658–1659).
June 3 » Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
June 25 » Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
September 17 » The Battle of Vilanova is fought between Portugal and Spain during the Portuguese Restoration War.
October 29 » Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound.
Day of death May 7, 1718
The temperature on May 7, 1718 was about 17.0 °C. Source: KNMI
May 7 » The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.
May 15 » James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
June 26 » Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
November 22 » 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.
November 30 » King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.
December 17 » War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain.
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