List of state leaders in 1718

See also
List of state leaders in 1717 Events of 1718 List of state leaders in 1719 State leaders by year List of colonial governors in 1718

This is a list of heads of state, government leaders, and other rulers in the year 1718.

Africa

Ashanti Confederacy – Maniampon, Regent (1717–1720)
Bunyoro – Olimi III, Omukama of Bunyoro (c.1710–1731)
Kingdom of Dahomey – Agaja (1708–1732)
Ethiopian Empire – Dawit III (1716–1721)
Merina Kingdom - Andriantsimitoviaminiandriana Andriandrazaka (1710-1730)
Nkore – Ntare IV, Omugabe of Nkole, (c.1699–c.1727)

Asia

Akkalkot State – Fatehsinh I Raje Bhonsle, ruled 1707–1760
Aundh State – Parusharam Trimbak, Raja (1697–1718)
Banganapalle State – Faiz Ali Khan, Nawab of Banganapalle (1689–1759)
Bengal – Murshid Quli Khan, Nawab of Bengal (1717–1727)
Sultanate of Brunei – Hussin Kamaluddin (1705–1730)
Bundi State – Rao Raja Budh Singh, Raja (1696–1735)
China (Qing dynasty) – Kangxi Emperor (1662–1722)
Empire of Japan
- Monarch – Emperor Nakamikado (1709–1735)
- Tokugawa shogunate – Tokugawa Yoshimune (1716–1745)
- Ryukyu Kingdom – Shō Kei (1713–1751)
Khanate of Kokand – Shahrukh Biy (1709–1721)
Joseon (Korea) – Sukjong (1674–1720)
Mughal Empire – Farrukhsiyar (1713–1719)

Europe

Kingdom of Denmark–Norway –
- Monarch – Frederick IV (1699–1730)
- Grand Chancellor – Christian Christophersen Sehested (1708–1721)
Kingdom of France –
- Monarch - Louis XV (1715–1774)
- Regent - Philippe II d'Orléans, duc d'Orléans (1715-1723)
Republic of Genoa - Benedetto Viale, Doge of Genoa (1717-1719)
Kingdom of Great Britain –
- Monarch – George I (1714–1727)
- Prime Minister –
  1. James Stanhope, First Lord of the Treasury (1717–1718)
  2. Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, First Lord of the Treasury (1718–1721)
Holy Roman Empire – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1711–1740)
Electors
- Bavaria – Maximilian II Emanuel (1679–1726)
- Bohemia – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1711-1740)
- Brandenburg – Frederick William I of Prussia (1713–1740)
- Cologne – Joseph Clemens of Bavaria (1688-1723)
- Hanover – George I of Great Britain, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Elector of the Holy Roman Empire (1708–1727)
- Mainz – Lothar Franz von Schönborn (1695-1729)
- Palatinate - Karl III Philipp, Elector Palatine (1716-1742)
- Saxony – Frederick Augustus I (1694-1733)
- Trier – Franz Ludwig of Pfalz-Neuburg (1716-1729)
Princes
- Anhalt-Bernburg –
  1. Victor Amadeus (1656-1718)
  2. Karl Friedrich (1718-1721)
- Anhalt-Dessau – Leopold I (1693–1747)
- Anhalt-Köthen – Leopold (1704-1728)
- Anhalt-Zerbst –
  1. Karl Wilhelm (1667-1718)
  2. Johann August (1718-1742)
- Arenberg – Leopold (1691–1754)
- Auersperg – Heinrich Joseph Johann (1713–1783)
- Augsburg – Alexander Sigismund of Pfalz-Neuburg (1690-1737)
- Austria – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1711-1740)
- Baden-Baden – Ludwig Georg Simpert (1707–1761)
- Baden-Durlach – Karl III Wilhelm (1709-1738)
- Bamberg – Lothar Franz von Schönborn (1693-1729)
- Berchtesgaden – Joseph Clemens of Bavaria (1688-1723)
- Brandenburg-Ansbach – Wilhelm Friedrich (1703-1723)
- Brandenburg-Bayreuth – Georg Wilhelm (1712-1726)
- Bremen –
  1. Charles XII of Sweden (House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken), Duke of Bremen (1697–1718, dispossessed since 1712)
  2. Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (House of Vasa), dispossessed Duchess regnant of Bremen (1718–1719)
- Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel – August Wilhelm (1714-1731)
- Burgundy (Austrian Netherlands) -
  - Monarch - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1714-1740)
  - Governor-General - Prince Eugene of Savoy (1716-1724)
- Constance – Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg (1704-1740)
- Corvey – Maximilian von Horrich (1714-1721)
- Eichstätt – Johann Anton Knebel von Katzenelnbogen (1705-1725)
- Ellwangen – Franz Ludwig of Pfalz-Neuburg (1694-1732)
- Freising – Johann Franz Ecker von Kapfing-Lichteneck (1695-1727)
- Fulda – Konstantin von Buttlar
- Fürstenberg – Joseph Wilhelm Ernst, (Prince 1716–1762, Count 1704–1716)
- Heitersheim –
- Hesse-Darmstadt – Ernst Ludwig (1678-1739)
- Hesse-Kassel – Karl I (1670-1730)
- Hildesheim – Joseph Clemens of Bavaria (1688-1723)
- Hohenzollern-Hechingen – Friedrich Wilhelm (1671-1735)
- Holstein-Glückstadt – Frederick IV of Denmark (1699-1730)
- Holstein-Gottorp – Karl Friedrich (1702-1739)
- Kempten – Rupert von Bodman (1678-1728)
- Lorraine - Leopold (1690-1729)
- Lübeck – Christian August (1705-1726)
- Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Karl Leopold (1713–1747)
- Mecklenburg-Sterlitz – Adolf Friedrich III (1708–1752)
- Mergentheim – Franz Ludwig of Pfalz-Neuburg, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (1694-1732)
- Münster – Franz Arnold von Wolff-Metternich (1706-1718)
- Nassau-Orange – Wilhelm IV (1711–1751)
- Osnabrück – Ernst August of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1715-1728)
- Paderborn – Franz Arnold von Wolff-Metternich (1704-1718)
- Palatinate-Sulzbach – Theodor Eustach (1708-1732)
- Palatinate-Zweibrücken –
  1. Charles XII of Sweden (1697-1718)
  2. Gustav Samuel Leopold (1718-1731)
- Passau – Raymund Ferdinand von Rabatta (1713-1722)
- Swedish Pomerania -
  1. Charles XII of Sweden (1697–1718, dispossessed since 1715)
  2. Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (1718–1720)
- Prüm - Franz Ludwig of Pfalz-Neuburg (1716-1729)
- Regensburg – Clemens August of Bavaria (1716-1719)
- Salm – Ludwig Otto (1710-1738)
- Savoy - Victor Amadeus II (1675-1730)
- Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld – Johann Ernst IV (1675-1729)
- Saxe-Eisenach - Johann Wilhelm III (1698-1729)
- Saxe-Gotha – Friedrich II (1691-1732)
- Saxe-Hildburghausen – Ernst Friedrich I (1715-1724)
- Saxe-Lauenburg – George I of Great Britain (1705–1727)
- Saxe-Meiningen – Anton Ulrich (1706–1763)
- Saxe-Weimar – Wilhelm Ernst (1683-1728) and Ernst August I (1707-1748)
- Speyer – Heinrich Hartrad von Rollingen (1711-1719)
- Strasbourg – Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan (1704–1749)
- Verden –
  1. Charles XII of Sweden (1697–1718, dispossessed since 1712)
  2. Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (1718–1719)
- Worms – Franz Ludwig of Pfalz-Neuburg (1694-1732)
- Württemberg – Eberhard Ludwig (1677-1733)
- Würzburg – Johann Philipp von Greifenclau zu Vollraths (1699-1719)
Counts and Prelates
- Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym –
- Bentheim-Bentheim –
- Bentheim-Steinfurt –
- Essen Abbey –
- Gandersheim Abbey – Elisabeth Christine of Saxe-Meiningen, Princess-Abbess of Gandersheim (1713–1766)
- Gutenzell Abbey – Bernardina von Donnerberg, Princess-Abbess of Gutenzell (1718–1747)
- Herford Abbey –
- Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg –
- Hohenlohe-Bartenstein –
- County of Hohenlohe-Langenburg – Ludwig (1715–1764, Prince 1764–1765)
- Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen –
- County of Hohenlohe-Öhringen – Johann Friedrich II (1702–1764)
- County of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim – Carl Ludwig (1702–1756)
- Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst –
- Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen – Joseph Friedrich (1715–1769)
- Hoogstraten –
- County of Isenburg – Ernst Kasimir, Count of Isenburg (1708–1749)
- Principality of Isenburg-Birstein – Wolfgang Ernst I 1711–1744. (1744–1754)
- Isenburg-Meerholz –
- County of Isenburg-Wächtersbach – Ferdinand Maximilian II (1703–1755)
- Imperial Abbey of Kaisersheim –
- Käppel – Sophie Charlotte Kessel von Bottlenberg, Princess-Abbess of Käppel (1718–1748)
- County of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Billigheim – Johann Franz (1699–1750)
- County of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim – Christian Karl Reinhard (1698–1766)
- Leiningen-Dachsburg-Hartenburg –
- Leiningen-Emichsburg –
- Lindau Abbey –
- Lippe-Alverdissen –
- Lippe-Biesterfeld –
- Lippe-Detmold –
- Lippe-Weissenfeld –
- Nassau-Saarbrücken –
- Principality of Nassau-Usingen – Karl (1718–1775)
- Nassau-Weilburg –
- Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen –
- Quedlinburg Abbey – Maria Elisabeth von Holstein-Gottorp, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (1710–1755)
- County of Reuss-Ebersdorf – Heinrich XXIX (1711–1747)
- Reuss-Gera –
- Reuss-Lobenstein –
- Reuss-Obergreiz –
- Reuss-Schleiz –
- Reuss-Untergreiz –
- Salm-Dhaun –
- Salm-Dyck –
- Salm-Grumbach –
- Principality of Salm-Leuze – Philipp Joseph (1716–1779)
- Salm-Reifferscheid –
- Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg –
- Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein –
- Schaumburg-Lippe –
- Stolberg-Rossla –
- Stolberg-Stolberg –
- County of Stolberg-Wernigerode – Christian Ernst (1710–1771)
- Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont –
- Weingarten Abbey –
- Westerburg-Leiningen-Neu-Leiningen (Bavaria Line) –
- Westerburg-Leiningen-Neu-Leiningen (Nassau Line) –
- Wied –
Kingdom of Hungary - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1711-1740)
Kingdom of Ireland
- King - George I of Great Britain (1714-1727)
- Lord-Lieutenant - Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton (1717-1720)
Duchy of Milan - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1706-1740)
Duchy of Modena - Rinaldo d'Este (1695-1737)
Kingdom of Naples - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1707-1734)
Ottoman (Turkish) Empire
- Sultan – Ahmed III (1703–1730)
- Grand Vizier –
  1. Nişancı Mehmed Pasha (1717–1718)
  2. Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha (1718–1730)
Duchy of Parma - Francesco Farnese (1694-1727)
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Augustus the Strong (1709-1733)
Kingdom of Portugal – John V (1706–1750)
Kingdom of Prussia – Frederick William I (1713–1740)
Tsardom of Russia – Peter I (1682–1725)
Kingdom of Sardinia - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1713-1720)
Kingdom of Sicily - Victor Amadeus II (1713-1720)
Kingdom of Spain – Philip V (1700–1724, 1724–1746)
Kingdom of Sweden –
- Monarch – Charles XII (1697 – 30 November 1718)
- Prime Minister – Arvid Horn, President of the Privy Council Chancellery (1710–1738)
Grand Duchy of Tuscany – Cosimo III de' Medici (1670–1723)
United Provinces
- Estates of Friesland, Groningen, Guelders, Holland, Overijssel, Utrecht, Zeeland (1581–1795)
- Grand Pensionary of Holland – Anthonie Heinsius (1689–1720)
  - Friesland – Willem IV, Stadtholder of Friesland (1711–1751)
Republic of Venice - Giovanni II Cornaro, Doge of Venice (1709-1722)

Middle East and North Africa

Sultanate of Morocco – Ismail (1684–1727)
Oman – Sultan II bin Saif, Imam of Oman (1711–1719)
Persia – Sultan Husayn, Shah of Persia (1694–1722)

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