About the day » Wednesday March 2, 1718Calender converter

• Debora van Borgonje, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Diedert GERARDUS, Wommels
• Anna Maria Elisabeth van Son, Boxtel
• Anna Barbara Hertz, Straeten, Waldenrath, Heinsberg, Deutschland
• Bastiaan de Graaf, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Pottere, Munsterkerk, Altena, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1766)
• Cent Bogaart, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carolus Josephus Sailly, Lembeek († 1790)
• Eleanor Randall Greene, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States († 1790)
• Antonius van de Ven, Retie († 1768)

• John Shaw (64), Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
• jan van Rietkerken (42), Leiden
• Hermann Rodenberg (0), Schüllar, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Catharina Sleijpen (36), Houthem,, Limburg, Nederland
• Jacoba Houtman (2)
• Marijtjen Vis (61), Enkhuizen, NH, Nederland
• Jancke (Jannetje) Sjercks, Hitzum, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Catharina Sleijpen (36), Houthem, Limburg, Nederland
• James Salter (68), St Marychurch, Torquay, Devon, England
• Jancke Sjercks (58), Hitzum, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1628 » Cornelis Speelman, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies († 1684)
• 1651 » Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet († 1730)
• 1705 » William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer († 1793)
• 1740 » Nicholas Pocock, English naval painter (d.1821)
• 1760 » Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician († 1794)
• 1769 » DeWitt Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of New York († 1828)
• 1770 » Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French general († 1826)
• 1779 » Joel Roberts Poinsett, American physician and politician, 15th United States Secretary of War († 1851)
• 1793 » Sam Houston, American soldier and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Texas († 1863)
• 1800 » Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian-Italian poet and philosopher († 1844)

• 1619 » Anne of Denmark, queen of Scotland (b. 1574)
• 1729 » Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (b. 1662)
• 1755 » Louis de Rouvroy, French duke and diplomat (b. 1675)
• 1791 » John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (b. 1703)
• 1793 » Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-Danish painter and academic (b. 1711)
• 1797 » Horace Walpole, English historian and politician (b. 1717)
• 1829 » Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, Mexican revolutionary (b. ca. 1773)
• 1830 » Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, German physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (b. 1755)
• 1835 » Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
• 1840 » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• 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.
• July 21 » The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
• 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.

The temperature on March 2, 1718 was about 2.0 °C.