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| 1716 |
| | | The Habsburg emperor Charles VI has a son, but the child dies within the year | |
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| 1717 |
| | | Scottish entrepreneur John Law establishes the Louisiana Company to develop the Mississippi valley for France | |
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| 1717 |
| | | The earl of Burlington employs Colen Campbell to remodel his Piccadilly house in the Palladian style | |
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| 1717 |
| | | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, observing the Turkish practice of inoculation against smallpox, submits her infant son to the treatment | |
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| 1718 |
| | | The tsarevitch Alexis, heir to Peter the Great, dies from violence inflicted on him in prison | |
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| c. 1718 |
| | | The Octagon, a garden pavilion designed by James Gibbs, is added to Orleans House. | |
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| 1719 |
| | | Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, with its detailed realism, can be seen as the first English novel | |
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| 1719 |
| | | Alexander Pope comes to live in Twickenham and leases some riverside land with several small cottages. | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | | The lighter rococo style, beginning in France, becomes an extension of the baroque | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | | The symphony begins to develop as a musical form, deriving from the overtures of operas | |
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