1713 in Great Britain
Great Britain-related events during the year of 1713
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Events from the year 1713 in Great Britain .
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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
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)
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