12 March

La Voisin is arrested in Paris.

Affair of the Poisons Executed

Fortune tellers selling 'inheritance powders' to the Paris elite, a secret court lit by torches, and testimony that reached the king's own mistress.

Members of Teach's crew are tried at Williamsburg; fourteen of sixteen are convicted.

Blackbeard Killed before trial

Edward Teach held Charles Town to ransom for a chest of medicine, took a royal pardon, went back to sea and died on a sloop's deck at Ocracoke in 1718.

Lady Tichborne dies, leaving the Claimant without his main supporter.

Tichborne Claimant Convicted

A bankrupt butcher from Wagga Wagga said he was a lost English baronet. A grieving mother believed him; two juries and 188 court days did not.