Events January–March 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, Moldova: Charles XII of Sweden is defeated by the Ottoman Empire. 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 is accepted by Britain and Austria as king of Spain; Spain cedes Gibraltar and Menorca to Britain.
April–June April 11 – The Second Treaty of Utrecht between Great Britain and France ends the War of the Spanish Succession. France cedes Newfoundland, Acadia, Hudson Bay and St Kitts to Great Britain. 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. 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. May 1 – As part of the Treaty of Utrecht, the Spanish Crown agrees the Asiento de Negros with Anne, Queen of Great Britain, granting a subsidiary of the British South Sea Company, the Real Asiento de Inglaterra, a 30-year monopoly in the supply of African slaves to colonial Spanish America. May 2 – In the Great Northern War, a fleet of the Russian Navy, transporting 12,000 soldiers, sails from Kronstadt to attack the Swedish Army at Helsinki. May 6 – The Parliament of Ireland is dissolved by Queen Anne and new elections are set. May 13 – King Philip V of Spain issues an auto accordado that changes the order of succession for the Spanish throne allowing a female descendant within the House of Bourbon to rule. The change will allow his great-great-granddaughter to ascend the throne in 1833 as Queen Isabella II. May 17 – Ottone in villa, the first opera by composer Antonio Vivaldi, is given its initial performance, debuting at the Teatro delle Grazie in Vicenza May 21 – Great Northern War: The Russian fleet lands a force of 10,000 men at Pernå on the southern coast of Finland. 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 are given one year to declare allegiance to Great Britain, or leave Nova Scotia.
July–September July 9 – The Junta de Braços (parliament) of the Principality of Catalonia votes in favour of staying in the War of the Spanish Succession against Philip V of Spain. Army of Catalonia raised. July 13 – The Treaty of Portsmouth brings an end to Queen Anne's War. August 8 – The Parliament of Great Britain, third since the Act of Union, is dissolved August 22 – Voting begins in the 1713 British general election in various constituencies and continues to November 12 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 tribes.
October–December October 6 – The Treaty of Schwedt is signed between Russia and Brandenburg-Prussia, with the latter accepting the annexation of Baltic territories and paying Russia expenses in return for the southern part of Pomerania, recently taken from Sweden in the Great Northern War. October 17 – The Battle of Pälkäne is fought in what is now Finland between Russia and Sweden, with Russia's Fyodor Arpaskin forcing Finnish troops under Carl Gustaf Armfeldt to withdraw. November 6 – The Dublin election riot breaks out during the fiercely contested Irish General Election."Police and public order in eighteenth-century Dublin", by Neal Garnham, in Two Capitals: London and Dublin, 1500–1840 By British Academy · (Oxford University Press, 2001) p. 84 November 12 – The 1713 British general election concludes with the conservative Tories winning 358 of the 558 available seats in the House of Commons, and the liberal Whigs having 200. December 9 – As part of the agreements made at Utrecht to end the War of the Spanish Succession, Great Britain and Spain sign a treaty of commerce and navigation.Randall Lesaffer, "The Peace of Utrecht and the Balance of Power", Oxford Public International Law. December 10 – The rebellion of Richard Raworth, Deputy Governor of Fort St. David (now abandoned and in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu near Cuddalore), against the British East India Company comes to an end after two months when forces sent by Bridish Madras Governor Edward Harrison to negotiate a settlement allowing Raworth to surrender in return for amnesty. December 21 – Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy is crowned King of Sicily at Palermo, and his wife Anne Marie is crowned as Queen consort.Antonio Gallenga, History of Piedmont, Volume 3 (Chapman and Hall, 1855) p. 118 The coronation follows Spain's recognition of Sicilian independence, effective September 22, as part of the Treaty of Utrecht.
Date unknown Ars Conjectandi, a seminal work on probability by Jacob Bernoulli, is published eight years after his death, by his nephew, Niklaus Bernoulli. Basil Matthew II becomes Syriac Orthodox Maphrian of the East. San Basilio de Palenque officially becomes the first free African town in America, being the first independent place in America from Europeans.
Births
January January 1 – Carl Gustaf Warmholtz, Swedish writer (d. 1785) January 2 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) January 5 – Jorge Juan y Santacilia, Spanish mathematician and naval officer (d. 1773) January 7 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian impresario and librettist (d. 1785) January 13 – Charlotte Charke, British actor and writer (d. 1760) January 17 – Jean Chrétien Fischer, French general (d. 1762) January 18 – Grigory Spiridov, Russian admiral (d. 1790) January 22 – Marc-Antoine Laugier, French Jesuit priest and architectural theorist (d. 1769) January 25 – Kang Sehwang, Joseon Dynasty painter (d. 1791) January 29 – Edmé-François Mallet, French writer (d. 1755) January 31 Anthony Benezet, French-born American abolitionist and educator (d. 1784) Adam Drummond, Scottish merchant banker and politician (d. 1786) February February 2 – Maria Margarida de Lorena, 2nd Duchess of Abrantes, Portuguese noblewoman and courtier (d. 1780) February 5 – Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, British Baron (d. 1795) February 7 – Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet, Governor of Jamaica and New York (d. 1769) February 11 – Diane Adélaïde de Mailly-Nesle, Mistress of Louis XV (d. 1769) February 12 – Kenrick Clayton, British politician (d. 1769) February 13 – Domènec Terradellas, Spanish opera composer (d. 1751) February 14 Jan ten Compe, painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1761) Vittoria Ligari, Italian painter (d. 1783) February 20 – Anna Maria Elvia, Swedish feminist writer (d. 1784) February 26 – Pyotr Sheremetev, Russian noble (d. 1788) February 28 – Louis-Auguste-Augustin d'Affry, French diplomat (d. 1793) March March 2 – Giammaria Ortes, Italian composer and academic (d. 1790) March 5 Edward Cornwallis, British military officer, first Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1776) Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1783) March 8 – Gian Carlo Passeroni, Italian writer (d. 1803) March 9 – Daniel Fones, American military commander (d. 1790) March 12 – Johann Adolph Hass, German clavichord maker (d. 1771) March 15 – Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762) March 17 – Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1788) March 21 – Francis Lewis, Signatory of the US Declaration of Independence, from Wales (d. 1803) March 23 – Bowen Southwell, Irish politician (d. 1796) March 26 – Peter Oliver, Massachusetts loyalist colonial judge (d. 1791) March 28 – Juan Nentvig, German anthropologist (d. 1768) March 29 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1787) April April 2 – Pier Francesco Foggini, Italian writer (d. 1783) April 3 – William Inglis, Scottish surgeon (d. 1792) April 7 – Nicola Sala, Italian opera composer and music theorist (d. 1801) April 10 – John Whitehurst, English clockmaker (d. 1788) April 11 – Luise Gottsched, German poet, playwright, essayist and translator (d. 1762) April 12 Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Baronet, Anglo-Irish politician (d. 1745) Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer, man of letters (d. 1796) April 13 – Pierre Jélyotte, French operatic tenor (d. 1797) April 17 – Samuel Graves, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1787) April 21 Anna Maria Hilfeling, Swedish artist (d. 1783) Louis de Noailles, French peer and Marshal of France (d. 1793) April 22 Brita Sophia De la Gardie, Swedish actress (d. 1797) Peter Du Cane Sr., British businessman (d. 1803) May May 6 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher, writer on aesthetics (d. 1780) May 7 – Charles Townley, British Officer of Arms (d. 1774) May 11 – James Drummond, 3rd Duke of Perth, Scottish Jacobite army officer (d. 1746) May 13 Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1765) Louis François de Monteynard, French soldier, statesman (d. 1791) May 15 József Károly Hell, Hungarian mining engineer (d. 1789) Edward Wortley Montagu, British politician, traveller and author (d. 1776) May 17 – Élie Bertrand, Swiss scientist (d. 1797) May 25 Andrzej Mokronowski, Polish general (d. 1783) John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, British politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1792) May 31 – Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte, Corsican politician (d. 1763)
June June 3 – Robert Petre, 8th Baron Petre, British peer, renowned horticulturist (d. 1742) June 10 – Princess Caroline of Great Britain, fourth child and third daughter of George II (d. 1757) June 11 John Allen, 3rd Viscount Allen, Irish politician (d. 1745) Edward Capell, English Shakespearean scholar; (d. 1781) June 13 Imperial Noble Consort Chunhui, Consort of Chinese Emperor (d. 1760) Antonio Eugenio Visconti, Italian cardinal (d. 1788) June 16 – Meshech Weare, First Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786) June 17 – Hongjiao, Chinese Qing dynasty imperial prince (d. 1764) June 20 – Georg Anton Urlaub, German painter (d. 1759) June 22 – Lord John Sackville, English gentleman and cricketer (d. 1765) June 25 – Marie-Marguerite Brun, French poet (d. 1794) June 29 – Johannes de Bosch, painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1785) July July 1 – Benjamin Green, Nova Scotian merchant, judge, and political figure (d. 1772) July 5 Stanhope Aspinwall, British diplomat (d. 1771) Jean Godin des Odonais, French cartographer and naturalist (d. 1792) July 9 – John Newbery, English publisher and bookseller (d. 1767) July 10 – Anna Rosina de Gasc, German portrait painter (d. 1783) July 14 – Nicole du Hausset, French memoirist (d. 1801) July 16 – Carlo Murena, architect (d. 1764) July 18 Robert Dundas of Arniston, the younger, Scottish judge (d. 1787) Gaetano Matteo Pisoni, Swiss-Italian architect (d. 1782) July 22 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect in neoclassicism (d. 1780) July 23 Juan de Miralles, Spanish diplomat (d. 1780)