List of state leaders in 1718

This is a list of heads of state, heads of governments, 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)
• Sultanate of Darfur – Ahmed Bukr
• Ethiopian Empire – Dawit III (1716–1721)
• Matamba – Verónica I of Matamba, Queen of Matamba (1681–1721)
• Menabe – Ranaimo (1718–1727)
• Merina Kingdom – Andriantsimitoviaminiandriana Andriandrazaka (1710–1730)
• Nkore – Ntare IV, Omugabe of Nkole, (c.1699–c.1727)
• Kingdom of Nri – Eze Nri Ezimilo (1701–1723)

Asia

• Akkalkot State – Fatehsinh I Raje Bhonsle, ruled 1707–1760
• Aundh State – Parusharam Trimbak, Raja (1697–1718)
• Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam) – Thai Sa (1709–1733)
• Bamra State – Pratap Deb (1713–1745)
• Banganapalle State – Faiz Ali Khan, Nawab of Banganapalle (1689–1759)
• Bengal – Murshid Quli Khan, Nawab of Bengal (1717–1727)
• Bhopal State - Dost Mohammad of Bhopal (1707-1728)
• Sultanate of Brunei – Hussin Kamaluddin (1705–1730)
• Bundi State – Rao Raja Budh Singh, Raja (1696–1735)
• The Carnatic – Muhammed Saadatullah Khan I, Nawab of the Carnatic (1710–1732)
• 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)
• Mataram Sultanate – Pakubuwono I (1704–1719)
• 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)
  • Palatine 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 and the Algarves – 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)