<Li> 1718: Blackbeard (Edward Teach) is killed by Robert Maynard in a North Carolina inlet on the inner side of Ocracoke Island . </Li> <Li> 1718--1730: Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire . </Li> <Li> 1719: The Spanish attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails . </Li> <Li> 1719: Second Javanese War of Succession . </Li>

What was it like in the 18th century