1713
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This article is about the year 1713. For the number, see 1713 (number).
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1680s 1690s 1700s – 1710s – 1720s 1730s 1740s |
| Years: | 1710 1711 1712 – 1713 – 1714 1715 1716 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1713 MDCCXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2466 |
| Armenian calendar | 1162 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6463 |
| Bengali calendar | 1120 |
| Berber calendar | 2663 |
| British Regnal year | 11 Ann. 1 – 12 Ann. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2257 |
| Burmese calendar | 1075 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7221–7222 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4409 or 4349 — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4410 or 4350 |
| Coptic calendar | 1429–1430 |
| Discordian calendar | 2879 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1705–1706 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5473–5474 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1769–1770 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1635–1636 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4814–4815 |
| Holocene calendar | 11713 |
| Igbo calendar | 713–714 |
| Iranian calendar | 1091–1092 |
| Islamic calendar | 1124–1125 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōtoku 3 (正徳3年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4046 |
| Minguo calendar | 199 before ROC 民前199年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2255–2256 |
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Year 1713 (MDCCXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
Events[edit]
January–June[edit]
- January 17 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia out of Albemarle County, North Carolina in a second offensive against the Tuscarora. Heavy snows force the troops to take refuge in Fort Reading on the Pamlico River.
- February 1 – Skirmish at Bender
- February 4 – Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia under Colonel James Moore leaves Fort Reading to continue the campaign against the Tuscarora.
- February 25 – Frederick William I of Prussia begins his reign.
- March 1 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore's Carolina militia lays siege to the Tuscaroran stronghold of Fort Neoheroka, located a few miles up Contentnea Creek from Fort Hancock.
- March 20 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore's Carolina militia launches a major offensive against Fort Neoheroka.
- March 23 – Tuscarora War: Fort Neoheroka falls to the Carolina militia, effectively ending the Tuscarora nation's military strength. Two Tuscaroran allies, the Machapunga and Coree tribes, continue offensive actions against North Carolina.
- March 27 – First Treaty of Utrecht between Great Britain and Spain. Philip V accepted by Britain and Austria as king of Spain; Spain cedes Gibraltar and Minorca to Britain.[1][2]
- April 11 – Second Treaty of Utrecht between Britain and France ends the War of the Spanish Succession.[3] France cedes Newfoundland, Acadia, Hudson Bay and St Kitts to Britain.[1]
- April 14 – First performance, in London, of Joseph Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy, which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic.[4]
- April 19 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure one of his daughters will inherit the Habsburg lands.
- June 1 (approx.) – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia into the Pamlico Peninsula to defeat the Machapunga and Coree tribes.
- June 23 – French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia.
July–December[edit]
- July 13 – The Treaty of Portsmouth brings an end to Queen Anne's War.
- September 1 – Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia led by Colonel James Moore returns to South Carolina after mixed success in the campaign against the Machapunga and Coree.
Date unknown[edit]
- Ars Conjectandi, a seminal work on probability by Jacob Bernoulli is published eight years after his death, by his nephew, Niklaus Bernoulli.
Births[edit]
- January 2 – Marie Dumesnil, French actor (d. 1803)
- January 5 – Jorge Juan y Santacilia, Geodesist (d. 1773)
- January 13 – Charlotte Charke, British actor and writer (d. 1760)
- January 17 – Jean Chrétien Fischer, French general (d. 1762)
- January 22 – Marc-Antoine Laugier, French architectural historian (d. 1769)
- January 31
- Anthony Benezet, American abolitionist (d. 1784)
- Adam Drummond, British politician (d. 1786)
- February 2 – Maria Margarida de Lorena, 2nd Duchess of Abrantes, Portuguese noble, court lady (d. 1780)
- February 11 – Diane Adélaïde de Mailly, third of the five famous de Nesle sisters (d. 1760)
- February 22 – Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1783)
- March 8 – Gian Carlo Passeroni, Italian writer (d. 1803)
- March 12 – Johann Adolph Hass, Clavichord maker (d. 1771)
- March 17 – Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1788)
- March 21 – Francis Lewis, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New York (d. 1803)
- March 23 – Bowen Southwell, Irish politician (d. 1796)
- March 26 – Peter Oliver, Massachusetts colonial judge (d. 1791)
- March 28 – Juan Nentvig, German anthropologist (d. 1768)
- March 29 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
- April 7 – Nicola Sala, Italian opera composer (d. 1801)
- April 10 – John Whitehurst, English clockmaker (d. 1788)
- April 11 – Luise Gottsched, German poet, playwright, essayist and translator (d. 1762)
- April 12 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796)
- April 13 – Pierre Jélyotte, French operatic tenor (d. 1797)
- April 17 – Samuel Graves, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1787)
- April 21
- Anna Maria Hilfeling, Swedish artist (d. 1783)
- Louis de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793)
- April 22 – Peter Du Cane, Sr. (d. 1803)
- May 3 – Edward Cornwallis, British Army general (d. 1776)
- May 6 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)
- May 7 – Charles Townley, Officer of Arms (d. 1774)
- May 11 – James Drummond, 3rd Duke of Perth (d. 1747)
- May 13
- Alexis Clairaut, French astronomer (d. 1765)
- Louis François de Monteynard, French soldier and statesman (d. 1791)
- May 15 – József Károly Hell (d. 1789)
- May 25
- John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1762–1763) (d. 1792)
- Andrzej Mokronowski, Polish general (d. 1784)
- May 31 – Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte (d. 1763)
- June 3 – Robert Petre, 8th Baron Petre, renowned horticulturist and a British peer (d. 1742)
- June 10 – Princess Caroline of Great Britain, fourth child and third daughter of George II (d. 1757)
- June 11
- Edward Capell, English Shakespearian critic (d. 1781)
- John Allen, 3rd Viscount Allen, Irish politician (d. 1745)
- June 16 – Meshech Weare, First Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
- June 22 – Lord John Sackville, English cricketer (d. 1765)
- July 1 – Benjamin Green, merchant (d. 1772)
- July 5
- Jean Godin des Odonais, French cartographer and naturalist (d. 1792)
- Stanhope Aspinwall, British diplomat (d. 1771)
- July 9 – John Newbery, English publisher and bookseller (d. 1767)
- July 10 – Anna Rosina de Gasc, German portrait painter (d. 1783)
- July 18 – Gaetano Matteo Pisoni, Swiss-Italian architect (d. 1782)
- July 22 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
- August 1 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1780)
- August 4
- Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco, Spanish cartographer (d. 1785)
- Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1761)
- August 6 – Marie Sophie de Courcillon, French noblewoman and Duchess of Rohan-Rohan as well as Princess of Soubise by marriage (d. 1756)
- August 11 – Lebbeus Harris, Canadian politician (d. 1792)
- August 25 – Vijaya Raghunatha Raya Tondaiman I, Raja of Pudukkottai (d. 1769)
- August 27 – Anton August Beck, German engraver (d. 1787)
- September 3 – Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye, eldest son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye and Marie-Anne Dandonneau Du Sablé (d. 1736)
- September 10
- John Needham (d. 1781)
- Gowin Knight, British physicist (d. 1772)
- September 13
- Giuseppe Maria Buondelmonti, Italian philosopher (d. 1757)
- Charles Lucas, Irish politician (d. 1771)
- September 14 – Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1781)
- September 23 – Ferdinand VI of Spain, King of Spain (d. 1759)
- October 3 – Antoine Dauvergne, French composer and violinist (d. 1797)
- October 5 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher (d. 1784)
- October 7 – Granville Elliott, Army General, British military expert, working for Britain and Palatine forces (d. 1759)
- October 8 – Yechezkel Landau, Polish Orthodox rabbi (d. 1793)
- October 13 – Allan Ramsay, British artist (d. 1784)
- October 20
- James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury, English Earl (d. 1780)
- Benjamin Andrew, American politician (d. 1790)
- Joseph Redlhamer, Austrian physicist (d. 1761)
- October 23 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch academic (d. 1788)
- October 24 – Marie Fel, French opera singer (d. 1794)
- October 30 – Giuseppe Antonio Landi, Italian painter (d. 1791)
- November 1 – Antonio Genovesi, Italian economist (d. 1769)
- November 5 – Gorges Lowther, Member of Irish House of Commons (d. 1792)
- November 6 – Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds (d. 1789)
- November 24
- Junípero Serra, Christian missionary (d. 1784)
- Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (d. 1768)
- November 30 – Johann Balthasar Bullinger, Swiss artist (d. 1793)
- December 4 – Gasparo Gozzi, Venetian critic and dramatist (d. 1786)
- December 10 – Johann Nicolaus Mempel, German composer and musician (d. 1747)
- December 13 – John Baptist Caryll, third Jacobite Baron Caryll of Durford (d. 1788)
- December 14 – Martin Knutzen, German philosopher (d. 1751)
- December 15 – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British politician (d. 1802)
- December 23 – Maruyama Gondazaemon, Sumo wrestler (d. 1749)
- December 27 – Giovanni Battista Borra, Italian architect and engineer (d. 1770)
- December 29 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)
Deaths[edit]
- January 8 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
- January 11 – Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637)
- January 12 – John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery, Governor of Jamaica and President of the Royal Society (b. 1639)
- February 4 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (b. 1671)
- February 25 – King Frederick I of Prussia (b. 1657)
- March 18 – Juraj Jánošík, the Slovak Robin Hood (executed)
- May 20 – Thomas Sprat, English minister (b. 1635)
- July 7 – Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
- October 15 – Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Elder, artist (b. 1666)
- October 20 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
- November 7 – Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
- November 17 – Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
- December 14 – Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)
- date unknown – Thomas Ellwood, English religious writer (b. 1639)
References[edit]
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Jackson, William G. F. (1986). The Rock of the Gibraltarians. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses. pp. 113, 333–34. ISBN 0-8386-3237-8.
- ^ Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. London: Chapman and Hall.
- ^ Litto, Fredric M. (1966). "Addison's Cato in the Colonies". William and Mary Quarterly 23: 431–449. JSTOR 1919239.