1713 in Great Britain

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Events from the year 1713 in Great Britain.

## Incumbents

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* Monarch – Anne

## Events

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* 27 March – First Treaty of Utrecht between Britain and Spain. Spain cedes Gibraltar and Menorca.[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]
* 14 April – first performance, in London, of Joseph Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy.
* 1 May – as part of the Treaty of Utrecht, the Spanish Crown agrees the Asiento de Negros with Queen Anne, 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.[3]
* 7 July – Handel's "Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate" is performed at a service in St Paul's Cathedral to commemorate the Peace of Utrecht
* July to August – General election results in a Tory victory.[4]
* Undated – John Rowley of London produces an orrery to a commission by Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery.[5]

## Publications

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* Matthew Hale – The History and Analysis of the Common Law of England, the first published history of English law (posthumous).[6]

## Births

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* 13 January – Charlotte Charke, actress and writer (died 1760)
* 17 March – Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1788)
* 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)
* December – Jonathan Toup, classical scholar and critic (died 1785)
* Unknown date – James "Athenian" Stuart, archaeologist, architect and artist (died 1788)

## Deaths

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* 4 February – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, politician and philosopher (born 1671)
* 20 May – Thomas Sprat, minister (born 1635)
* 7 July – Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (born 1632)
* 20 October – Archibald Pitcairne, physician (born 1652)
* October/November – Fabian Stedman, pioneer of change ringing (born 1640)
* 7 November – Elizabeth Barry, actress (born 1658)
* 14 December – Thomas Rymer, historian (born 1641)

## See also

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* 1713 in Wales

## References

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1. ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. ^ Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
3. ^ Blackburn, Robin (1998). The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492–1800. Verso. ISBN 1859841953.
4. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 208–209\. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
5. ^ "orrery". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
6. ^ Hostettler, John (2002). The Red Gown: the Life and Works of Sir Matthew Hale. Chichester: Barry Rose Law Publishers. ISBN 1-902681-28-2.

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