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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1718
1718 in Great Britain:
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Events from the year 1718 in Great Britain.
- 18 February –
Robert Henry, historian (died 1790)
- 4 April –
Benjamin Kennicott, churchman and Hebrew scholar (died 1783)
- 7 April –
Hugh Blair, preacher and man of letters (died 1800)
- 17 May –
Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, diplomat and politician (died 1778)
- 23 May –
William Hunter, anatomist (died 1783)
- 30 May –
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, politician (died 1793)
- 5 June –
Thomas Chippendale, furniture maker (died 1779)
- 17 June –
George Howard, field marshal (died 1796)
- 5 July –
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (died 1794)
- 31 July –
John Canton, physicist (died 1772)
- 3 November –
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, statesman (died 1792)
- 6 January –
Richard Hoare, goldsmith and banker (born 1648)
- 1 February –
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, politician (born 1660)
- 17 February –
Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield, heiress (born 1664)
- 18 February –
Peter Anthony Motteux, dramatist and editor, probably murdered (born 1663 in France)
- 30 July –
William Penn, Quaker and founder of the Pennsylvania colony (born 1644)
- 22 November –
Blackbeard, pirate, killed in action (born c. 1680)
- 6 December –
Nicholas Rowe, poet laureate and dramatist (born 1674)