English History (Part 7)

Historical Events

Events 601 - 700 of 1,344

• 1695-10-10 King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England
• 1695-12-31 A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
• 1696-02-27 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association
• 1696-02-29 English ex-premier Earl Danby accused of corruption
• 1696-03-07 English King William III departs Netherlands
• 1697-05-24 English King William III travels through northern Europe
• 1697-10-30 Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Dutch/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending Nine Year War
• 1697-11-10 English parliament accept army reduction
• 1698-01-04 Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire

• 1698-10-11 France, England & Netherlands ratified the First Partition Treaty, which eventually led to the War of the Spanish Succession
• 1699-06-11 England, France & Netherlands agree on 2nd Extermination Treaty of Spain
• 1700-01-01 Protestant Western Europe (except England) begins using the Gregorian calendar
• 1700-08-18 Swedish, English & Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark
• 1701-06-12 Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
• 1701-09-07 Germany, England & Netherlands sign anti-French covenant


• 1701-09-16 James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland on the death of his father James II
• 1702-03-08 Queen Anne becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland upon death of King William III
• 1702-03-11 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant" publishes
• 1702-03-19 James II's daughter Anne Stuart becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland following the death of William III [O.S. 8 March]
• 1702-03-21 Queen Anne addresses English parliament
• 1702-05-14 England & Netherlands declare war on France & Spain
• 1702-08-19 -24] Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French
• 1702-10-13 Dutch and English troops occupy Liège
• 1702-10-23 Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch & English fleet destroy & occupy Spanish silver fleet & French squadron
• 1703-05-02 Portugal signs treaty with England to become a Great Covenant
• 1703-05-18 Dutch & English troops occupy Cologne
• 1703-09-12 English army under arch duke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal
• 1703-12-07 Great storm of 1703 hits Southern England - thousands killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1,500 seamen
• 1703-12-27 England & Portugal sign Methuen-Asiento-trade agreement
• 1704-07-24 English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
• 1704-08-03 English/Dutch fleet under Rooke/Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar
• 1704-08-04 War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar

• 1705-10-15 English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona
• 1707-04-29 English and Scottish parliaments accept Act of Union; creates the United Kingdom of Great Britain (comes into being 1st May)
• 1707-05-01 Acts of Union comes into force, uniting England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain
• 1708-03-23 Pretender to the English throne James III lands at Firth of Forth
• 1708-03-27 Pretender to the English throne James III flees to Dunkirk
• 1708-10-21 Dutch & English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel)
• 1709-09-11 Battle at Malplaquet during War of the Spanish Succession: English, Austrian and Dutch Great Alliance defeat France


• 1709-10-29 England & Netherlands sign anti-French "Barrieretraktaat"
• 1710-08-07 Sidney, 1st Earl of Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance
• 1710-10-13 English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia)
• 1711-03-08 Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder
• 1711-12-31 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, fired as English army commander
• 1712-07-17 Great Britain, Portugal and France sign ceasefire [or 19th]
• 1713-01-30 England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
• 1713-04-11 Great Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Prussia, Savoy, Portugal & France agree the Treaty of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces in North America to Britain
• 1714-01-07 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)

• 1715-11-25 First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
• 1715-12-22 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
• 1716-06-05 England and Emperor Karel VI signs military treaty
• 1717-03-02 The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England

• 1720-06-10 Mrs Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard
• 1721-03-09 British Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower
• 1721-06-13 England signs Treaty of Madrid

• 1727-09-08 A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
• 1730-08-04 Crown prince Frederick of Prussia escapes to England
• 1732-08-01 Foundations laid for Bank of England
• 1733-01-13 James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, South Carolina
• 1737-07-31 Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court
• 1738-05-09 Britain sends fleet to the Mediterranean Sea & West Indies
• 1739-04-07 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
• 1739-10-19 England declares war on Spain [OS=Oct 30]
• 1741-03-09 British fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
• 1741-04-13 Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich, England
• 1743-08-16 Champion of England titleholder Jack Broughton publishes 'Rules of the Ring' - earliest boxing code
• 1744-02-09 Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews)
• 1744-03-11 English auction house Sotheby's holds its first ever auction (of books) in London
• 1744-12-31 English astronomer James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's nutation motion (wobble)
• 1745-03-09 Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
• 1745-11-11 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army enters England
• 1749-11-02 English Ohio Trade Company forms first trading post
• 1751-07-29 1st international world title prize fight: Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M. Petit of France in 29 mins in England
• 1751-08-24 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning a supposed witch
• 1753-06-13 Austria, Great Britain & Modena sign secret military treaty
• 1755-04-15 Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" published in London

• 1755-12-02 The second Eddystone Lighthouse on Eddystone Rocks off English southern coast is destroyed by fire
• 1756-08-29 England & France meet in war
• 1757-08-09 English Fort William Henry, NY, surrenders to French & Indians troops
• 1759-08-18 -19] 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France
• 1762-08-14 English fleet occupies Havana
• 1763-11-16 English journalist John Wilkes injured in a duel
• 1764-02-21 John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for "Essay on Women"
• 1766-05-09 John Byron back in England after trip around the world
• 1767-06-18 Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti, considered the first European to reach the island

• 1771-07-12 James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs, England
• 1772-06-22 Somerset v Stewart court case finds slavery unsupported by English common law, encouraging the abolitionist movement

• 1772-11-02 Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms

• 1775-06-23 1st regatta held on river Thames, England

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 601 - 700 of 4,801

• 1755-04-11 James Parkinson, English physician (First description of Parkinson's disease) and political activist, born in Shoreditch, London (d. 1824)
• 1755-07-05 Sarah Kemble Siddons, English tragic actress (Fatal Marriage), born in Brecon, Wales (d. 1831)
• 1755-07-06 John Flaxman, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey tomb stones)
• 1756-03-05 Thomas Linley the younger, English composer and musician "English Mozart" (d. 1778)
• 1756-07-14 Thomas Rowlandson, English painter/cartoonist/etcher
• 1757-01-11 Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer (d. 1831)
• 1757-02-01 John Philip Kemble, British actor and director (Drury Lane, Covent Garden), born in Prescot, Lancashire, England (d. 1823)
• 1757-02-20 John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)
• 1757-07-08 Richard Wainwright, English composer and church organist (d. 1825)
• 1759-04-27 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, English writer and feminist (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), mother of Mary Shelley, born in London (d. 1797)

• 1759-09-19 William Kirby, English entomologist and original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, born in Witnesham, Suffolk, England (d. 1850)

• 1760-03-28 Thomas Clarkson, English abolitionist (Negro Emancipation), born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England (d. 1846)
• 1761-05-16 John Opie, English painter, born in Trevellas, Cornwall (d. 1807)
• 1761-06-03 Henry Shrapnel, English Army officer and inventor (created the shrapnel shell), born in Wiltshire, England (d. 1842)
• 1761-11-22 Dorothy Jordan, Irish-English actress, courtesan, mistress of future King William IV of the United Kingdom, born in Waterford, Ireland (d. 1816)
• 1762-09-24 William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), born in Kings Sutton, England (d. 1850)
• 1763-03-09 William Cobbett, English journalist and author, born in Farnham, Surrey (d. 1835)
• 1763-06-26 George Morland, English artist of rural landscapes, born in London (d. 1804)
• 1763-07-30 Samuel Rogers, English poet (Italy, a poem), born in Newington Cross, Islington, England (d. 1855)
• 1763-10-12 John Ross, English composer and organist, born in Newcastle upon Tyne (d. 1837)
• 1763-12-23 John Davy, English composer, born at Creedy Bridge, Devon (d. 1824)
• 1764-01-18 Samuel Whitbread, English politician, born in Cardington, Bedfordshire (d. 1815)

• 1764-04-03 John Abernethy, English surgeon, born in London, England (d. 1831)
• 1764-06-19 John Barrow, England, founder of the Royal Geographical Society
• 1764-07-09 Ann Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (The Romance of the Forest), born in London (d. 1823)
• 1764-09-17 John Goodricke, English astronomer/member Royal Society
• 1764-09-25 Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer, born in Eaglesfield, Cumberland, England (d. 1793)
• 1764-12-03 Mary Lamb, British author (Tales from Shakespeare), born in London, England (d. 1847)
• 1765-03-04 Charles Dibdin, British composer, author (Sea Songs), and actor, baptized in Hampshire, England (d. 1814)
• 1765-03-21 Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron/diplomat
• 1765-10-08 Harman Blennerhassett, Irish lawyer, born in Hampshire, England (d. 1831)
• 1766-02-24 Samuel Wesley, composer/organist (Exultate Deo), born in Bristol, England
• 1766-09-06 John Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter, born in Eaglesfield, England (d. 1844)
• 1768-04-19 Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist
• 1768-05-17 Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (d. 1854)
• 1768-11-08 Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, born in London, England (d. 1840)
• 1768-12-22 John Crome (Old Crome), English landscape artist, born in Norwich, England (d. 1821)
• 1769-03-10 Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist and tunnel builder (d. 1840)
• 1769-04-13 Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830)
• 1770-03-13 Daniel Lambert, English gaol keep and famous for his unusually large size (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death), born in Blue Boar Lane, Leicester (d. 1809)

• 1770-04-30 David Thompson, English/Canadian explorer (Columbia River)
• 1771-05-14 Robert Owen, England, factory owner/socialist
• 1771-08-22 Henry Maudslay, English inventor (metal lathe), born in Woolwich, London (d. 1831)
• 1771-12-25 Dorothy Wordsworth, English poet and diarist, brother of William Wordsworth, born in Cockermouth, Cumberland (d. 1855)
• 1772-05-20 William Congreve, English officer (design fire rocket)

• 1773-01-09 Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845)
• 1773-05-19 Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)
• 1773-12-27 George Cayley, England, found science of aerodynamics
• 1774-03-16 Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia)
• 1774-03-20 John Braham, English tenor singer and composer, born in London (d. 1856)
• 1774-04-28 Francis Baily, English astronomer and describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse, born in Newbury, Berkshire, England (d. 1844)
• 1774-08-12 Robert Southey, English writer (The Story of the Three Bears), Poet Laureate (1813-43) and biographer (Nelson), born in Bristol, England (d. 1843)
• 1775-02-10 Charles Lamb, British critic/poet/essayist (Essays of Elia), born in London, England (d. 1834)
• 1775-02-18 Thomas Girtin, artist/watercolorist, born in London, England
• 1775-04-23 J. M. W. Turner, English landscape painter (Shipwreck), born in Covent Garden, London, England (d. 1851)
• 1775-07-09 Matthew Lewis, English novelist (The Monk), born in London (d. 1818)
• 1776-02-23 John Walter II, chief proprietor (The Times, 1812-47), born in London, England
• 1776-06-11 John Constable, English landscape painter (Hay Wain), born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England (d. 1837)
• 1777-10-06 William Russell, English composer and organist, born in London (d. 1813)
• 1778-04-10 William Hazlitt, English essayist and critic, born in Kent, England (d. 1830)
• 1778-06-07 Beau [George Bryan] Brummel, English dandy, born in London, England (d. 1840)
• 1778-12-17 Hunphry Davy, English chemist (discovered some elements)
• 1779-01-01 William Clowes, English printer (d. 1847)
• 1779-01-08 John White, English organist and violinist (d. 1831)

• 1779-02-27 Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1842)

• 1780-06-03 William Hone, England, author/bookseller (Every-Day Book)

• 1782-06-19 John Bray, English-born American actor and composer (The Indian Princess), born (d. 1822)
• 1782-08-10 Charles Napier, soldier, born in London, England
• 1783-04-08 John Claudius, horticulturist, born in London, England
• 1783-04-29 David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting)
• 1783-08-23 William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer, born in Bristol, England (d. 1852)
• 1784-02-03 John Fane graaf van Westmorland, English (opera)composer/diplomat
• 1784-07-27 George Onslow, English-French composer (chamber music), born in Clermont-Ferrand, France (d. 1853)
• 1785-07-06 William J Hooker, English botanist/director (Kew Gardens)
• 1785-08-15 Thomas De Quincey, English writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater), born in Manchester (d. 1859)
• 1785-09-25 George Pinto, English composer, born in London (d. 1806)
• 1785-10-18 Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall)
• 1785-10-20 George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
• 1785-11-13 Caroline Lamb, English aristocrat, author (Glenarvon), wife of William Lamb, lover of Lord Byron (d. 1828)
• 1786-01-11 Joseph Jackson Lister, British optician who perfected the optical microscope by designing the achromatic objective lens, born in London, England
• 1786-01-12 Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
• 1786-12-05 Henry Drummond, English banker and religious leader
• 1787-03-10 William Etty, English painter (nudes)
• 1787-08-24 James Weddell, British sailor and Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea), born in Ostend, Belgium (d. 1834)
• 1787-11-04 Edmund Kean, British Shakespearean actor (Edmund Kean's Masonic Career), born in London, England (d. 1833)
• 1787-12-09 John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
• 1787-12-15 Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic
• 1787-12-16 Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855)
• 1788-01-11 William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 601 - 700 of 2,363

• 1690-02-07 William Morice, English royalist statesman
• 1690-05-21 John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85
• 1691-02-01 George Etherege, English stage writer (Love in a Tub), dies at 56
• 1691-05-10 Colonel John Birch, English soldier (b. 1615)
• 1691-10-09 William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
• 1691-12-08 Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615)
• 1691-12-31 Dudley North, English economist (b. 1641)
• 1692-05-18 Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian and collector (Ashmolean Museum), dies at 74
• 1692-11-19 Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright (2nd Poet Laureate 1689-92), dies at about 50
• 1692-12-09 William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist, dies at approximately 38
• 1693-06-02 John Wildman, English soldier and politician
• 1693-07-12 John Ashby, English admiral
• 1694-01-02 Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
• 1694-01-07 Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (bc. 1618)
• 1694-06-17 Philip Howard, English Roman Catholic Cardinal, dies at 64
• 1694-12-28 Mary II, Queen of England, dies after 5 years of rule at 32 [NS=Jan 7]
• 1695-01-07 Mary II Stuart, queen of England, dies at 32 [OS=Dec 28 1694]
• 1695-03-05 Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)

• 1695-11-21 Henry Purcell, English composer (Indian Queen), dies at 36
• 1695-11-28 Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)
• 1696-03-18 Robert Charnock, English conspirator
• 1697-01-28 John Fenwick, English conspirator
• 1697-03-27 Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate, last governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 93
• 1699-01-21 Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
• 1699-02-27 Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c. 1625)
• 1699-05-15 Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councilor (b. 1631)
• 1699-06-22 Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
• 1699-11-09 Hortense Mancini, mistress of Charles II, King of England (b. 1646)
• 1700-05-01 John Dryden, English poet and playwright, first Poet Laureate (1668-1688), dies at 68
• 1701-08-20 Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)
• 1701-08-22 John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman, dies at 72
• 1701-09-16 James II of England and James VII of Scotland [Stuart], King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1685-88), dies at 68
• 1701-10-03 Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)
• 1701-11-05 Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (bc. 1659)
• 1702-01-06 Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies [NS=Jan 17]
• 1702-01-17 Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies [OS=Jan 6]
• 1702-03-08 William III, Dutch King of England (1689-1702), dies at 51 [NS-Mar 19] (b. 1650)
• 1702-03-19 William III, William of Orange, King of England and Scotland (1689-1702) and Stadtholder, dies at 51 [O.S. 8 March]
• 1702-04-23 Margaret Fell, English founder of the Religious Society of Friends known as the "mother of Quakerism," dies at about 87
• 1702-11-04 John Benbow, English vice-admiral (Santa Marta), dies
• 1703-04-20 Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632)

• 1704-04-08 Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641)
• 1704-06-18 Thomas "Tom" Brown, English translator and writer of satire ( Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London), dies at 41
• 1704-07-20 Peregrine White, First English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 83

• 1705-01-17 John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
• 1705-07-13 Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator (b. 1649)
• 1705-11-30 Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
• 1706-01-29 Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
• 1707-01-20 Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659)
• 1707-06-23 John Mill, English theologian
• 1707-08-18 William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English statesman and Whig politician (1661-84), dies at 67
• 1707-09-15 George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
• 1708-01-23 Thomas Bullis, English composer, dies at 80 (buried)
• 1708-09-06 Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
• 1708-10-28 Prince George of Denmark, Prince Consort of Anne of England, dies at 55
• 1709-01-24 George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)
• 1709-03-08 William Cowper/Cooper, English anatomist, dies at about 62
• 1709-03-09 Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat (d. 1709)
• 1709-07-17 Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
• 1709-10-09 Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
• 1709-11-23 Hans Willem baron Bentinck, Dutch/English earl of Portland, dies at 60
• 1710-04-28 Thomas Betterton, British actor and dramatist (Coriolanus), dies at 74
• 1711-03-19 Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
• 1711-05-02 Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (b. 1641)
• 1711-08-25 Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician
• 1712-02-02 Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician
• 1712-03-25 Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
• 1712-07-12 Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (1658-59), dies at 85
• 1712-07-26 Thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94), dies at 80
• 1712-08-03 Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
• 1712-08-18 Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
• 1712-08-24 Thomas Bullis, Jr. English composer, dies at 54
• 1712-08-29 Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63
• 1712-11-15 Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
• 1712-12-15 Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67
• 1713-05-20 Thomas Sprat, English writer (b. 1635)
• 1713-11-07 Elizabeth Barry, English restoration actress, dies at 55
• 1713-11-20 Thomas Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel), dies at 74
• 1713-12-14 Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)
• 1714-02-02 John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (b. 1643)
• 1714-02-24 Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637)
• 1714-06-22 Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (b. 1662)
• 1714-08-01 Anne Stuart, Queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49
• 1714-08-26 Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632)
• 1715-08-12 Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies
• 1715-10-15 Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (b. 1675)
• 1715-12-15 George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology), dies at 73
• 1716-04-26 John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
• 1716-06-05 Roger Cotes, English mathematician (Newton-Cates formulas), dies at 33
• 1716-06-28 George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
• 1716-07-08 Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
• 1717-10-26 Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
• 1718-01-06 Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
• 1718-02-01 Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (b. 1660)
• 1718-02-18 Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)
• 1718-05-07 Mary of Modena, Queen of James II of England, dies at 59

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