1713 Events January–June 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 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. June 1 June 23 - French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Great Britain, or leave Nova Scotia .July–December 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 tribes. November - The Dublin election riot breaks out during the fiercely contested Irish General Election .Date unknown Ars Conjectandi , a seminal work on probability by Jacob Bernoulli , is published eight years after his death, by his nephew, Niklaus Bernoulli .Births January 2 - Marie Dumesnil , French actor January 5 - Jorge Juan y Santacilia , Spanish geodesist January 7 - Giovanni Battista Locatelli , Italian opera director January 13 - Charlotte Charke , British actor and writer January 17 - Jean Chrétien Fischer , French general January 22 - Marc-Antoine Laugier , French Jesuit priest and architectural theorist January 31 * Anthony Benezet , French-born American abolitionist and educator active in Philadelphia * Adam Drummond , Scottish merchant banker and politician February 2 - Maria Margarida de Lorena, 2nd Duchess of Abrantes , Portuguese noblewoman and courtier February 11 - Diane Adélaïde de Mailly , third of the five famous French de Nesle sisters February 13 - Domènec Terradellas , Spanish opera composer February 20 - Anna Maria Elvia , Swedish feminist writer March 5 * Edward Cornwallis , British military officer, first Governor of Nova Scotia * Frederick Cornwallis , Archbishop of Canterbury March 8 - Gian Carlo Passeroni , Italian writer March 12 - Johann Adolph Hass , German clavichord maker March 17 - Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet , British politician March 21 - Francis Lewis , signer of the United States Declaration of Independence March 23 - Bowen Southwell , Irish politician March 26 - Peter Oliver , Massachusetts loyalist colonial judge March 28 - Juan Nentvig , German anthropologist March 29 - John Ponsonby , Irish politician April 7 - Nicola Sala , Italian opera composer April 10 - John Whitehurst , English clockmaker April 11 - Luise Gottsched , German poet, playwright, essayist and translator April 12 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal , French writer, man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment April 13 - Pierre Jélyotte , French operatic tenor April 17 - Samuel Graves , British Royal Navy admiral, known for his role early in the American War of Independence April 21 * Anna Maria Hilfeling , Swedish artist * Louis de Noailles , French peer and Marshal of France April 22 - Peter Du Cane, Sr., British businessman May 6 - Charles Batteux , French philosopher, writer on aesthetics May 7 - Charles Townley , British Officer of Arms May 11 - James Drummond, 3rd Duke of Perth , British noble May 13 * Alexis Clairaut , prominent French mathematician * Louis François de Monteynard , French soldier, statesman May 15 * József Károly Hell , Hungarian mining engineer * Edward Wortley Montagu , English traveller and author May 25 * Andrzej Mokronowski , Polish general * John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute , Prime Minister of Great Britain May 31 - Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte , Corsican politician June 3 - Robert Petre, 8th Baron Petre , British peer, renowned horticulturist June 10 - Princess Caroline of Great Britain , fourth child and third daughter of George II June 11 * John Allen, 3rd Viscount Allen , Irish politician * Edward Capell , English Shakespearian critic June 16 - Meshech Weare , First Governor of New Hampshire June 20 - Georg Anton Urlaub , German painter June 22 - Lord John Sackville , English gentleman and cricketer, second son of Lionel Sackville July 1 - Benjamin Green , Canadian merchant and judge July 5 * Stanhope Aspinwall , British diplomat * Jean Godin des Odonais , French cartographer and naturalist July 9 - John Newbery , English publisher and bookseller July 10 - Anna Rosina de Gasc , German portrait painter July 18 - Gaetano Matteo Pisoni , Swiss-Italian architect July 22 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot , French architect in the international circle that introduces neoclassicism July 23 - Luís António Verney , Portuguese philosopher and pedagogue July 27 - Margravine Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , German noble August 1 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel August 4 * Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco , Spanish cartographer * Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen , Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Strelitz August 6 - Marie Sophie de Courcillon , French noblewoman and Duchess of Rohan-Rohan, Princess of Soubise by marriage August 11 - Lebbeus Harris , Canadian politician August 17 - Antoine de Montazet , French archbishop August 25 - Vijaya Raghunatha Raya Tondaiman I , Raja of Pudukkottai August 27 - Anton August Beck , German engraver September 3 - Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye , eldest son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye and Marie-Anne Dandonneau Du Sablé September 10 * Gowin Knight , British physicist * John Needham , British biologist and priest September 13 - Giuseppe Maria Buondelmonti , Italian philosopher September 14 - Johann Kies , German astronomer and mathematician September 16 - Charles Lucas , Irish apothecary and politician September 23 - Ferdinand VI of Spain , King of Spain October 3 - Antoine Dauvergne , French composer and violinist October 5 - Denis Diderot , French philosopher October 7 - Granville Elliott , Army General, British military expert, working for Britain and Palatine forces October 8 - Yechezkel Landau , influential Polish authority on halakha October 12 - Khawaja Muhammad Zaman of Luari , Sindhi Sufi poet October 13 * Allan Ramsay , Scottish portrait painter * Jacques de Romas , French physicist October 20 * Benjamin Andrew , American politician * James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury , English noble * Joseph Redlhamer , Austrian physicist October 23 - Pieter Burman the Younger , Dutch academic October 24 - Marie Fel , French opera singer October 30 - Giuseppe Antonio Landi , Italian painter November 1 - Antonio Genovesi , Italian economist November 5 - Gorges Lowther , Member of the Irish House of Commons November 6 - Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds , British politician November 24 * Junípero Serra , Spanish Christian missionary * Laurence Sterne , Anglo-Irish novelist, Anglican clergyman November 30 - Johann Balthasar Bullinger , Swiss landscape painter December 4 - Gasparo Gozzi , Venetian critic and dramatist December 10 - Johann Nicolaus Mempel , German composer, musician December 13 - John Baptist Caryll , third Jacobite Baron Caryll of Durford December 14 - Martin Knutzen , German philosopher December 15 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip , British politician December 23 - Maruyama Gondazaemon , Japanese sumo wrestler December 27 - Giovanni Battista Borra , Italian architect and engineer December 29 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille , French astronomerDeaths January 1 - Giuseppe Maria Tomasi , Sicilian saint January 5 - Jean Chardin , French jeweller, traveller January 8 - Arcangelo Corelli , Italian composer January 11 - Pierre Jurieu , French Protestant leader January 12 - John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery , Governor of Jamaica , President of the British Royal Society January 20 - Pavao Ritter Vitezović , Croatian historian February 4 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury , English politician and philosopher February 14 - Louis Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken February 25 - King Frederick I of Prussia February 26 - William Paget, 6th Baron Paget , English peer and ambassador March 15 - Wolfgang William Romer , Dutch military engineer March 18 - Juraj Jánošík , the Slovak Robin Hood March 24 - Toussaint de Forbin-Janson , French Catholic cardinal and Bishop of Beauvais March 26 * Paul I, Prince Esterházy , Hungarian prince * Charles de Sévigné , French baron March 30 - Govert Bidloo , Dutch physician, anatomist, poet and playwright April 3 - Henri, Count of Brionne , French noble May 20 - Thomas Sprat , English minister July 7 - Henry Compton , Bishop of Oxford, privy councillor August 4 - William Cave , English divine August 26 Denis Papin , French inventor October 15 - Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Elder , German artist October 18 - Tripo Kokolja , Venetian painter October 20 - Archibald Pitcairne , Scottish physician October 28 - Paolo Lorenzani , Italian composer October 31 - Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany November 6 - Franz Karl of Auersperg , Prince of Auersperg, Duke of Münsterberg November 7 - Elizabeth Barry , English actress November 17 - Abraham van Riebeeck , Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies December 14 - Thomas Rymer , English historian December 15 - Carlo Maratta , Italian painter December 18 - Frederick Heinrich of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt December 31 - Edward Proger , Member of Parliament for Brecknockshire date unknown - Thomas Ellwood , English religious writer
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