Editing 1713 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[Skirmish at Bender]], Moldova: [[Charles XII of Sweden]] is defeated by the [[Ottoman Empire]].
* [[February 4]] &ndash; Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia under Colonel James Moore leaves Fort Reading, to continue the campaign against the Tuscarora.
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Frederick William I of Prussia]] begins his reign.
* [[March 1]] &ndash; 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]] &ndash; Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore's Carolina militia launches a major offensive against Fort Neoheroka.
* [[March 23]] &ndash; 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]] &ndash; [[First Treaty of Utrecht]] between Great Britain and Spain: [[Philip V of Spain|Philip V]] is accepted by Britain and  Austria as king of Spain; Spain cedes [[Gibraltar]] and [[Menorca]] to Britain.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Jackson|first=William G. F.|title=The Rock of the Gibraltarians|publisher=Associated University Presses|year=1986|location=Cranbury, NJ|isbn=0-8386-3237-8|pages=113, 333–34}}</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 11]] &ndash; The [[Second Treaty of Utrecht]] between Great Britain and France ends the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Pocket Date Book|url=https://archive.org/details/pocketdatebooko00categoog|location=London|publisher=Chapman and Hall|first=William L. R.|last=Cates|author-link=William Leist Readwin Cates|year=1863}}</ref> France cedes [[Newfoundland Colony|Newfoundland]], [[Acadia]], [[Hudson Bay]] and [[St Kitts]] to Great Britain.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* [[April 14]] &ndash; First performance, in London, of [[Joseph Addison]]'s libertarian play ''[[Cato, a Tragedy]]'', which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Litto|first=Fredric M.|title=Addison's Cato in the Colonies|year=1966|volume=23|journal=[[William and Mary Quarterly]]|issue=3|pages=431–449|doi=10.2307/1919239|jstor=1919239}}</ref>
* [[April 19]] &ndash; 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.
* [[May 1]] &ndash; As part of the Treaty of Utrecht, the [[Spanish Crown]] agrees the ''[[Asiento de Negros]]'' with [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]], granting a subsidiary of the British South Sea Company, the [[Real Asiento de Inglaterra]], a 30-year monopoly in the supply of African slaves to colonial Spanish America.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492–1800|last=Blackburn|first=Robin|year=1998|publisher=Verso|isbn=1859841953}}</ref>
* [[May 2]] &ndash; In the [[Great Northern War]], a fleet of the Russian Navy, transporting 12,000 soldiers, sails from [[Kronstadt]] to attack the Swedish Army at [[Helsinki]].
* [[May 6]] &ndash; The [[List of Parliaments of Ireland|Parliament of Ireland]] is dissolved by [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]] and new elections are set.
* [[May 13]] &ndash; King [[Philip V of Spain]] issues an ''auto accordado'' that changes the [[order of succession]] for the Spanish throne allowing a female descendant within the House of Bourbon to rule. The change will allow his great-great-granddaughter to ascend the throne in 1833 as [[Isabella II of Spain|Queen Isabella II]].
* [[May 17]] &ndash; ''[[Ottone in villa]]'', the first opera by composer [[Antonio Vivaldi]], is given its initial performance, debuting at the Teatro delle Grazie in [[Vicenza]]
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Great Northern War]]: The Russian fleet lands a force of 10,000 men at [[Pernå]] on the southern coast of Finland.
* [[June 1]] ''(approx.)'' &ndash; Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia into the Pamlico Peninsula to defeat the Machapunga and Coree tribes.
* [[June 23]] &ndash; French residents of [[Acadia]] are given one year to declare allegiance to Great Britain, or leave [[Nova Scotia]].

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 9]] &ndash; The [[Junta de Braços]] (parliament) of the [[Principality of Catalonia]] votes in favour of staying in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] against [[Philip V of Spain]]. [[Army of Catalonia (1713–14)|Army of Catalonia]] raised.
* [[July 13]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Portsmouth (1713)|Treaty of Portsmouth]] brings an end to [[Queen Anne's War]].
* [[August 8]] &ndash; The [[3rd Parliament of Great Britain|Parliament of Great Britain]], third since the Act of Union, is dissolved
* [[August 22]] &ndash; Voting begins in the [[1713 British general election]] in various constituencies and continues to November 12
* [[September 1]] &ndash; 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.

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 6]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Schwedt]] is signed between Russia and [[Brandenburg-Prussia]], with the latter accepting the annexation of Baltic territories and paying Russia expenses in return for the southern part of [[Swedish Pomerania|Pomerania]], recently taken from Sweden in the [[Great Northern War]].
* [[October 17]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Pälkäne]] is fought in what is now Finland between Russia and Sweden, with Russia's Fyodor Arpaskin forcing Finnish troops under [[Carl Gustaf Armfeldt]] to withdraw.
* [[November 6]] &ndash; The [[Dublin election riot]] breaks out during the fiercely contested [[Irish general election, 1713|Irish General Election]].<ref>"Police and public order in eighteenth-century Dublin", by Neal Garnham, in ''Two Capitals: London and Dublin, 1500–1840''
By British Academy · (Oxford University Press, 2001) p. 84</ref>
* [[November 12]] &ndash; The [[1713 British general election]] concludes with the conservative [[Tories (British political party)|Tories]] winning 358 of the 558 available seats in the House of Commons, and the liberal [[Whigs (British political party)|Whigs]] having 200.
* [[December 9]] &ndash; As part of the [[Peace of Utrecht|agreements made at Utrecht]] to end the [[War of the Spanish Succession]], [[Great Britain]] and [[Spain]] sign a treaty of commerce and navigation.<ref>Randall Lesaffer, [https://opil.ouplaw.com/page/utrecht-peace/The-Peace-of-Utrecht-and-the-Balance-of-Power "The Peace of Utrecht and the Balance of Power"], Oxford Public International Law.</ref>
* [[December 10]] &ndash; The rebellion of Richard Raworth, Deputy Governor of [[Fort St. David]] (now abandoned and in the Indian state of [[Tamil Nadu]] near [[Cuddalore]]), against the British East India Company comes to an end after two months when forces sent by Bridish Madras Governor [[Edward Harrison (British administrator)|Edward Harrison]] to negotiate a settlement allowing Raworth to surrender in return for amnesty.
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia|Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy]] is crowned [[King of Sicily]] at [[Palermo]], and his wife [[Anne Marie d'Orléans|Anne Marie]] is crowned as Queen consort.<ref>Antonio Gallenga, ''History of Piedmont'', Volume 3 (Chapman and Hall, 1855) p. 118</ref> The coronation follows [[Spain]]'s recognition of Sicilian independence, effective September 22, as part of the [[Treaty of Utrecht]].

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* ''[[Ars Conjectandi]]'', a seminal work on [[probability]] by [[Jacob Bernoulli]], is published eight years after his death, by his nephew, [[Nicolaus I Bernoulli|Niklaus Bernoulli]].
* [[Basil Matthew II]] becomes [[Syriac Orthodox Church|Syriac Orthodox]] [[Maphrian|Maphrian of the East]].<ref name="SW">{{cite book|last1=Wilmshurst|first1=David|year=2019|chapter=West Syrian patriarchs and maphrians|title=The Syriac World|publisher=Routledge|page=812|editor1-first=Daniel|editor1-last=King}}</ref>
* [[San Basilio de Palenque]] officially becomes the first free African town in America, being the first independent place in America from Europeans.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Arrazola |first=Roberto |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LrlAAAAAYAAJ |title=Palenque: primer pueblo libre de América |date=1970 |publisher=Ediciones Hernández |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Arnaiz-Villena |first1=Antonio |last2=Reguera |first2=Raquel |last3=Parga-Lozano |first3=Carlos |last4=Abd-El-Fatah-Khalil |first4=Sedeka |last5=Monleon |first5=Luis |last6=Barbolla |first6=Luz |last7=Gomez-Prieto |first7=Pablo |last8=Martinez-Laso |first8=Jorge |last9=Silvera |first9=Carlos |date=2009-04-02 |title=HLA Genes in Afro-American Colombians (San Basilio de Palenque): The First Free Africans in America |url=http://benthamopen.com/ABSTRACT/TOIJ-2-59 |journal=The Open Immunology Journal |language=en |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=59–66 |doi=10.2174/1874226200902010059}}</ref>
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