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| Years: 1715 1716 1717 - 1718 - 1719 1720 1721 | |
| Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s | |
| Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century | |
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Events
- May 15 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, demonstrates the Puckle Gun.
- July 21 - Treaty of Passarowitz signed
- November 22 - Off the coast of Virginia, English pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle when a British boarding party cornered and then shot and stabbed him more than 25 times.
- November 30 - After the death of Charles XII, Ulrika Eleonora becomes Queen of Sweden
Ongoing events
Births
- May 16 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician (d. 1799)
- September 18 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
Deaths
- July 30 - William Penn
- November 22 - Blackbeard the pirate
- November 30 - Charles XII of Sweden
- December 6 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)
- Roderick O Flaherty, Irish chieftan, historian
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