About the day » Monday May 16, 1718Calender converter

• Adriana Mulier, Sint-Salvator, Brugge,, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Anne [Anna) Satterlee
• (Anna) Barbara Sureweerts, Tilburg, 4272, Noord Brabant, NL († 1788)
• Catherine KARM, Schlierbach, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE († 1746)
• Barbara Surewerts, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1780)
• Adrianus Stockmans, Valkenswaard, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Mahler, Remmeltshofen, Neu-Ulm, Bayern, Germany († 1785)
• Barbara Suerewerts (Zuerwers), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1788)
• Barbara Gijsberts Surewerts, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1788)
• Barbara Gijsbert Surewerts, Tilburg, Nederland († 1788)

• Amelberga Andries (63), Temse
• Capt William Langley 11 (65), Elizabeth River, Prince George, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Elizabeth Thelaball 11 1\2 F (77), Norfolk, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Janse Slis (56), Middelharnis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Floris Brugge (55), Hoogblokland
• Christina Engel Wiemeyer (46), Mentrup-Hagen, Fürstbistum Osnabrück
• Willem Hendricks Steenbergen, Koekange
• Aleijdis Aelbertse Stolwijk (0), Reeuwijk Z.H
• Bernhardt Ludwig (67), Arborn, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany
• Gilles Gilloteau GILTAY, Sprimont,4140,Luik,Wallonië,BELGIË

• 1641 » Dudley North, English economist and politician († 1691)
• 1710 » William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord Steward of the Household († 1782)
• 1718 » Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher († 1799)
• 1763 » Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist († 1829)
• 1788 » Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator († 1866)
• 1801 » William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State († 1872)
• 1804 » Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten († 1894)
• 1819 » Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet († 1890)
• 1821 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician († 1894)
• 1824 » Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President († 1920)

• 1620 » William Adams, English sailor and navigator (b. 1564)
• 1657 » Andrew Bobola, Polish missionary and martyr (b. 1591)
• 1667 » Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1607)
• 1669 » Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter and architect, designed the Santi Luca e Martina (b. 1596)
• 1691 » Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)
• 1696 » Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
• 1703 » Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)
• 1778 » Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)
• 1790 » Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)
• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on May 16, 1718 was about 13.0 °C.