1713 in Great Britain:

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Events from the year 1713 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Anne of Great Britain

Events

• 27 March - First Treaty of Utrecht between Britain and Spain. Spain cedes Gibraltar and Minorca.^[1]
• 11 April - Second Treaty of Utrecht signed between Britain and France ending the War of the Spanish Succession.^[2] France cedes Newfoundland, Acadia, Hudson Bay and St Kitts.^[1]
• July to August - General election results in a Tory victory.^[3]

Undated

• The first orrery built by George Graham.
• Board of Longitude established.^[1]

Births

• 10 April - John Whitehurst, clockmaker and scientist (died 1788)
• 25 May - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister (died 1792)
• 11 June - Edward Capell, critic (died 1781)
• 22 June - Lord John Philip Sackville, cricketer (died 1765)
• 7 October - Granville Elliott, military officer (died 1759)
• 13 October - Allan Ramsay, painter (died 1784)
• 24 November - Laurence Sterne, Irish-born English novelist (died 1768)
• 15 December - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, statesman (died 1802)

Unknown dates

• James Stuart, archaeologist, architect and artist (died 1788)
• Jonathan Toup, classical scholar and critic (died 1785)

Deaths

• 4 February - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, politician and philosopher (b. 1671)
• 20 May - Thomas Sprat, minister (b. 1635)
• 7 July - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
• 20 October - Archibald Pitcairne, physician (b. 1652)
• 7 November - Elizabeth Barry, actress (b. 1658)
• 14 December - Thomas Rymer, historian (b. 1641)

Unknown dates

• Thomas Ellwood, religious writer (b. 1639)

References

See also

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