22nd March » The Tuscarora War comes to an end with the fall of Fort Neoheroka, effectively opening up the interior of North Carolina to European colonization.
19th April » With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Habsburg Monarchy or Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born unt
23rd June » The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
Famous Birthdays in 1713
2nd January » Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
7th January » Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian director (d. 1785)
5th March » Edward Cornwallis, English general (d. 1776)
5th March » Frederick Cornwallis, English archbishop (d. 1783)
12th March » Johann Adolph Hass, German instrument maker (d. 1771)
21st March » Francis Lewis, Welsh-American politician (d. 1803)
29th March » John Ponsonby (politician) called John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
7th April » Nicola Sala, Italian composer and theorist (d. 1801)
10th April » John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (d. 1788)
12th April » Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French author (d. 1796)
13th April » Pierre Jélyotte, French tenor (d. 1797)
21st April » Louis de Noailles, French marshal (d. 1793)
6th May » Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)
13th May » Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1765)
25th May » John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
10th June » Princess Caroline of Great Britain (d. 1757)
11th June » Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)
16th June » Meshech Weare, American farmer, lawyer, and politician, 1st Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
22nd June » Lord John Sackville, English cricketer and politician (d. 1765)
22nd July » Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon, Paris e.g Panthéon (d. 1780)
1st August » Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1780)
14th September » Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1781)