1713

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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).

Events of

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.
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

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

The first Orrery was built by George Graham.
Frederick William I of Prussia starts to rule.

Ongoing events

Great Northern War (1700-1721).
War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713).
Tuscarora War (1711 - 1715).

Births

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 16 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
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)