Timeline May 1718

Events in May 1718 3

• 1658 – 1718 Mary of Modena (1658-1718) Died 7 May 1718, aged 59 Mary of Modena was queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland as the second wife of James II, with whom she lived in exile in France after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. She died at Saint-Germain-en-Laye still maintaining her son's claim to the British throne.
• 1718 Congress of Aland opens Sweden and Russia begin peace talks Swedish and Russian delegates met on the Aland Islands to negotiate an end to the Great Northern War. The talks dragged on without resolution and collapsed after the death of Charles XII later in the year.
• 1718 New Orleans founded French colonists establish a settlement on the Mississippi Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville founded New Orleans as a French colonial outpost near the mouth of the Mississippi River, naming it after the Duke of Orleans. The settlement later became the capital of French Louisiana and one of North America's major port cities.