- 1713
Year 1713 (MDCCXIII) was a
common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of theGregorian calendar (or acommon year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slowerJulian calendar ).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.
*March 1 - Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore's Carolina militia lays siege to the Tuscaroran stronghold ofFort 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, theMachapunga andCoree tribes, continue offensive actions againstNorth 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 ofAcadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leaveNova 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 is 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 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 - KingFerdinand 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 )Fact|date=May 2008
*December 15 -Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip , British statesman (d.1802 ): "See also ."
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 - KingFriedrich 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 ): "See also ."
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