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What Happened In Year 1713?

• February 1, 1713 – The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan’s order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
• April 11, 1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War): Treaty of Utrecht.
• April 19, 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
• June 23, 1713 – The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.

Who Were Born In The Year 1713?

• January 2, 1713 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
• March 5, 1713 – Edward Cornwallis, English military officer (d. 1776)
• March 29, 1713 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
• April 10, 1713 – John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (d. 1788)
• April 21, 1713 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793)
• May 3, 1713 – Alexis Claude de Clairaut, French mathematician (d. 1765)
• May 6, 1713 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)
• May 25, 1713 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
• May 30, 1713 – Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1757)
• June 11, 1713 – Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)
• July 22, 1713 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
• September 14, 1713 – Johann Kies, German mathematician (d. 1781)
• September 23, 1713 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
• October 5, 1713 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist (d. 1784)
• October 13, 1713 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (d. 1784)
• November 24, 1713 – Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist (d. 1768)
• December 4, 1713 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (d. 1786)
• December 23, 1713 – Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 3rd Yokozuna (d. 1749)

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