Editing 1718 (section)

=== January &ndash; March ===
* [[January 7]] &ndash; In India, [[Sufism|Sufi]] rebel leader [[Shah Inayat Shaheed]] from [[Sindh]] who had led attacks against the [[Mughal Empire]], is beheaded days after being tricked into meeting with the Mughals to discuss peace.<ref>Motilal Jotwani, ''Sufis Of Sindh'' (Indian Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, 1986)</ref>
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Jeremias III of Constantinople|Jeremias III]] reclaims his role as the [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]], chief leader within the Eastern Orthodox Church, 16 days after the Metropolitan Cyril IV of Pruoza had engineered an election to become the Patriarch.<ref>Demetrius Kiminas, ''The Ecumenical Patriarchate'' (Wildside Press LLC, 2009) p. 41,47 </ref>
* [[February 14]] &ndash; The reign of [[Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Victor Amadeus]] over the principality of [[Anhalt-Bernburg]] (now within the state of [[Saxony-Anhalt]] in northeastern Germany) ends after 61 years and 7 months. He had ascended the throne on September 22, 1656.  He is succeeded by his son [[Karl Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg|Karl Frederick]].
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Manuel II of Kongo|Manuel II]] (Mpanzu a Nimi) becomes the new monarch of the [[Kingdom of Kongo]] (located in western Africa in present day [[Angola]]) when [[Pedro IV of Kongo|King Pedro IV]] (Nusamu a Mvemba) dies after a reign of 22 years.  Manuel reigns until 1743.<ref>Alisa LaGamma, ''Kongo: Power and Majesty'' (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015) p.15</ref>
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein|Anton Florian]] becomes the new [[Prince of Liechtenstein]], succeeding [[Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein|Joseph Wenzel]]
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Daniel Overbeek]] becomes the new [[List of governors of Dutch Ceylon|Dutch Governor of Ceylon]] (now the nation of [[Sri Lanka]]), arriving after a 10-month sea voyage from the Netherlands.
* [[March 18]] &ndash;  [[Edward Wortley Montagu (traveller)|Edward Wortley Montagu]], the four-year-old son of the British Ambassador to Turkey, becomes the first British person to be inoculated with the smallpox vaccine, administered by [[Charles Maitland (physician)|Dr. Charles Maitland]] at the request of Edward's mother, [[Lady Mary Wortley Montagu]].<ref>W. M. Thackeray, ''The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne'' (Houghton Mifflin, 1900) p. 73, 490</ref>
* [[March 20]] &ndash; The [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom]], at the time the British Government prior to the creation of the officer of Prime Minister, is reorganized, with a reorganized [[Second Stanhope–Sunderland ministry]]. Secretary of State for the Northern Department [[Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland]] succeeds [[James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope|James Stanhope]] as the new [[First Lord of the Treasury]], and Stanhope takes Sunderland's job.