The first known ancestor of multi-shot weapons was created by James Puckle, a London lawyer, who patented what he called " The Puckle Gun " on May 15, 1718.

Maria Gaetana Agnesi ( May 16, 1718 – January 9, 1799 ) was an Italian mathematician and philosopher.

Maria Gaetana Agnesi was born in Milan on May 16, 1718, to a wealthy and literate family.

* May 24 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer ( b. 1718 )

* May 4 – Matthew Tilghman, American Continental Congressman for Maryland ( b. 1718 )

* May 29 – Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general ( b. 1718 )

* May 16 – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician ( b. 1718 )

Israel Putnam ( January 7, 1718 – May 29, 1790 ) was an American army general and Freemason who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill ( 1775 ) during the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ).

Frances Carteret ( b. 06 Apr 1718, bap 1 May 1718 St Martin In The Fields, Westminster )

Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle KG, and lord of De Voorst in Guelders ( Gelderland ) ( baptized 30 January 1670, Zutphen – 30 May 1718 ), was the son of Oswald van Keppel and his wife Anna Geertruid van Lintelo.

He died on 30 May 1718, at the age of forty-eight.

William Hunter FRS ( 23 May 1718 – 30 March 1783 ) was a Scottish anatomist and physician.

13 February 1718 – 24 May 1792 ) was a British naval officer.

* May 22 – Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, composer and music critic ( b. 1718 )

Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness PC ( 17 May 1718 – 16 May 1778 ), known before 1721 as Lord Darcy and Conyers, was a British diplomat and politician.

Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire PC ( 30 May 1718 – 7 October 1793 ), known as the Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era.

* Mary of Modena 16 September 1701 — 7 May 1718, wife of James II of England & Ireland and James VII of Scotland ; ceased to be queen consort with his deposition on 12 February 1689.

* May 11-Guy-Crescent Fagon, French physician and botanist ( died 1718 )

Matthew Tilghman ( February 17, 1718 – May 4, 1790 ) was an American planter and Revolutionary leader from Maryland, who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776.

) On 8 May 1718 George I made him 1st Baron Cadogan, of Oakley, co. Buckingham, Viscount Caversham, of Caversham, co. Oxford and Earl Cadogan.

Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein ( 28 May 1656 – 11 October 1721 ) was the Prince of Liechtenstein between 1718 and 1721.

As a convent was ordered constructed, on May 12, 1718, the church was also remodeled.

The Vienna meeting will bring together a seasoned, 67-year-old veteran of the cold war who, in Mr. Kennedy's own words, is `` shrewd, tough, vigorous, well-informed and confident '', and a 44-year-old President ( his birthday is May 29 ) with a demonstrated capacity for political battle but little experience in international diplomacy.

Lydia Estes Pinkham ( February 9, 1819 – May 17, 1883 ) was an iconic concocter and shrewd marketer of a commercially successful herbal-alcoholic " women's tonic " meant to relieve menstrual and menopausal pains.

A shrewd politician, Djimasta was appointed as Minister of the Interior on May 22, 1992, serving in that position until 1993.

Their party was defeated ( 2 May 1182 ), but Andronikos Komnenos, a first cousin of Emperor Manuel, took advantage of these disorders to aim at the crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the government.

Japan celebrates a similarly themed Greenery Day, held on May 4. Although it has a similar theme to Arbor Day, its roots lay in celebration of the birthday of Emperor Hirohito.

Arcadius (; ; 377 / 378 – 1 May 408 ) was the Byzantine Emperor from 395 until his death in 408.

In 1906, Berg met the singer Helene Nahowski, daughter of a wealthy family ( said by some to be in fact the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from his liaison with Anna Nahowski ); despite the outward hostility of her family, the two were married on May 3, 1911.

Moreover, Marlborough had to cope with the death of Emperor Leopold I in May and the accession of Joseph I, which unavoidably complicated matters for the Grand Alliance.

The Emperor stimulated private building by promising householders gifts of land from the Imperial estates in Asiana and Pontica, and on 18 May 332, he announced that, as in Rome, free distributions of food would be made to the citizens.

The council was ordered by the Emperor and Pope to convene in Mantua on May 23, 1537.

Reopened at Trent on 1 May 1551 by convocation of Pope Julius III ( 1550 – 5 ), it was broken up by the sudden victory of Maurice, Elector of Saxony over the Emperor Charles V and his march into surrounding state of Tirol on 28 April 1552.

By May 1683 the Ottoman threat to Emperor Leopold I's capital, Vienna, was very real.

The royal couple, on separate ships due to their disagreements, were first attacked in May by Byzantine ships attempting to capture both ( in order to take them to Byzantium, according to the orders of the Emperor ).

Napoleon Bonaparte, who was already First Consul of the French Republic ( Premier Consul de la République française ) for life, declared himself Emperor of the French ( Empereur des Français ) on 18 May 1804, thus creating the Empire of the French ( Empire des Français ).

Since 3 May 1814, the Sovereign Principality of Elba was created a miniature non-hereditary Monarchy under the exiled French Emperor Napoleon I. Napoleon I was allowed, by the treaty of Fontainebleau with ( 27 April ), to enjoy, for life, the imperial title.

With the exception of a short period of eclipse, he enjoyed the complete confidence both of Constantine and Constantius II and was the tutor of the later Emperor Julian the Apostate ; and it was he who baptized Constantine the Great on May 22, 337.

Eusebius baptised Constantine the Great in his villa in Nicomedia, on May 22, 337 just before the death of the Emperor.

* May 18, 809 (): Emperor Saga was enthroned at age 24.

* 30 May 823 (): In the 14th year of Emperor Saga's reign, he abdicated ; the succession ( senso ) was received by Junna, Saga's younger brother and Emperor Kammu's third son.

* 6 May 850 (): Emperor Ninmyō died at the age of 41.

At that point, George William withdrew Brandenburg from the war and signed the Peace of Prague with Emperor Ferdinand II on 30 May 1635.

Flavius Claudius Julianus, born in May or June 332 or 331 in Constantinople, was the son of Julius Constantius ( consul in 335 ), half brother of Emperor Constantine I, and his second wife, Basilina, a woman of Greek origin.

The Tridentine Calendar also had on 6 May a feast of " St John before the Latin Gate ", associated with a tradition recounted by Saint Jerome that St John was brought to Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian, and was thrown in a vat of boiling oil, from which he was miraculously preserved unharmed.

The modern Italian Army defeated the poorly armed Abyssinians and captured Addis Ababa in May 1936, forcing Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie to flee.

The death of Emperor Henry V on 23 May 1125 put an end to these squabbles, but soon Honorius was involved in a new power struggle in the Holy Roman Empire.

Boniface obtained leave from the Byzantine Emperor Phocas to convert the Pantheon in Rome into a Christian church, and on 13 May 609 (?

Pope Gregory V, né Bruno of Carinthia ( c. 972 – 18 February 999 ) was Pope from 3 May 996 to 18 February 999, a son of the Salian Otto I, Duke of Carinthia, who was a grandson of the Emperor Otto I the Great.