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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1713
1713 in Great Britain:
Other years
Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Events from the year
1713 in
Great Britain .
Incumbents
Events
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
Matthew Hale – The History and Analysis of the Common Law of England , the first published history of
English law (posthumous).
[6]
Births
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
See also
References