1713

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1680s  1690s  1700s  – 1710s –  1720s  1730s  1740s
Years:	1710 1711 1712 – 1713 – 1714 1715 1716

1713 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1713 (MDCCXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1713 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events of 1713

January–June

• January 17 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia out of Albermarle 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 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.
• April 11 – War of the Spanish Succession: Treaty of Utrecht.
• June 1 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia into the Pamlico Peninsula to defeat the Machapunga and Coree tribes. This date is approximate.
• June 23 – French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada.

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.

Undated

• Alexander Pope, historian and life long friend of Sir Isaac Newton announces that he is to begin a definative translation of the works of Homer.

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700–1721).
• War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714).
• Tuscarora War (1711 – 1715).

Births

1713 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1713 MDCCXIII
Ab urbe condita	2466
Armenian calendar	1162 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-131 – -130
Bengali calendar	1120
Berber calendar	2663
Buddhist calendar	2257
Burmese calendar	1075
Byzantine calendar	7221 – 7222
Chinese calendar	壬辰年十二月初五日 (4349/4409-12-5) — to — 癸巳年十一月十四日 (4350/4410-11-14)
Coptic calendar	1429 – 1430
Ethiopian calendar	1705 – 1706
Hebrew calendar	5473 – 5474
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1769 – 1770
- Shaka Samvat	1635 – 1636
- Kali Yuga	4814 – 4815
Holocene calendar	11713
Iranian calendar	1091 – 1092
Islamic calendar	1124 – 1125
Japanese calendar	Shōtoku 3 (正徳3年)
Korean calendar	4046
Thai solar calendar	2256

• January 2 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
• March 15 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)
• March 21 – Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1803)
• March 29 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
• April 10 – John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (d. 1788)
• April 12 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796)
• April 21 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793)
• May 3 – Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (d. 1765)
• May 6 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)
• May 25 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
• June 11 – Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)
• June 22 – Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (d. 1765)
• July 22 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
• August 1 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780)
• September 23 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
• October 5 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist (d. 1784)
• October 7 – Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)
• October 8 – Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1793)
• October 13 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (d. 1784)
• November 24 – Junipero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary (d. 1784)
• November 24 – Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (d. 1768)
• December 4 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (d. 1786)
• December 9 – Evan Kalikow, Russian poet and novelist (d. 1754)
• December 15 – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (d. 1802)

Deaths

• 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 Friedrich 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)