There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 1718 BC was a common year starting on a Saturday, just like 1815 BC, 1804 BC, 1798 BC, 1787 BC, 1776 BC, 1770 BC, 1759 BC, 1748 BC, 1742 BC, 1731 BC in the century before it and 1714 BC, 1703 BC, 1692 BC, 1686 BC, 1675 BC, 1664 BC, 1658 BC, 1647 BC, 1636 BC, 1630 BC in the next.
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icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.