* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1713 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( d. 1780 )

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

* 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 ).

* 1759 – Ferdinand VI of Spain ( b. 1713 )

* 1784 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter ( b. 1713 )

* 1713 – War of the Spanish Succession ( Queen Anne's War ): Treaty of Utrecht.

* 1713 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, French peer and Marshal of France ( d. 1793 )

* 1713 – Nicola Sala, Italian composer and music theorist ( d. 1801 )

* 4 Kings of Sicily ( 1266 – 1282, 1700 – 1713, 1735 – 1815 )

** Philip ( 1700 – 1713 )

* 6 Dukes and Duchess of Luxembourg ( 1412 – 1415, 1419 – 1482, 1700 – 1713 )

* 1 Duke of Milan ( 1700 – 1713 )

* 7 Margraves and Marchionesses of Namur ( 1217 – 1237, 1429 – 1482, 1700 – 1713 )

* 6 Counts and Countesses of Hainaut ( 1253 – 1256, 1417 – 1482, 1700 – 1713 )

* 6 Counts and Countesses of Flanders ( 1383 – 1482, 1700 – 1713 )

* 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.

* 1780 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher ( b. 1713 )

In 1713, Charles XII of Sweden entered Lund.

To the Austrian emperor he promised recognition of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, a document designed to guarantee inheritance of the Austrian throne to Maria Theresa, Charles ' oldest child.

* March 26 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( b. 1713 )

* July 14 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher ( b. 1713 )

Charles VI paved the way for her accession with the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and spent his entire reign securing it.

Maria Theresa replaced Maria Josepha as heiress presumptive to the Habsburg realms the moment she was born ; Charles VI had issued the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 which had placed his nieces behind his own daughters in the line of succession.

The complications involved in a female Habsburg ruler had been long foreseen, and Charles VI had persuaded most of the states of Germany to agree to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713.

** Charles d ' Alençon ( 1713 ) Duke of Alençon,

*** Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( 1713 – 1780 ), his son

For example, Admiral Sir Charles Wager, a son and grandson of Kentish mariners, held the office of West Looe MP early ( 1713 – 1715 ) and at the end ( 1741 – 1743 ) of his political career.

The alliance of Spain and Austria was signed on 30 April 1725, and included Spanish support for the Pragmatic Sanction, a document drafted by Emperor Charles in 1713 to assure support for Maria Theresa in the succession to the throne of the Habsburgs.

Four years before the birth of Maria Theresa, due to his lack of male heirs, Charles provided for a male-line succession failure with the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713.

Elisabeth Christine's inability to produce male heirs irked Charles and eventually led to the promulgation of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, a document which abolished male-only succession ( hitherto effective in all the Habsburg realms, and not only in Hungary where female succession was allowed ) and declared his lands indivisible.

The work of translating the Old Testament was undertaken by William Bedel ( 1571 – 1642 ), Bishop of Kilmore, who completed his translation within the reign of Charles I, although it was not published until 1680 in a revised version by Narcissus Marsh ( 1638 – 1713 ), Archbishop of Dublin.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

In 1713, the son and successor of Charles XI, Charles XII, issued a new working order for the Chancellery to enable him to conduct government from the battle-field, but his sudden death at the siege of Fredricshald in Norway in 1718 provided the opportunity for the parliament ( Riksdag of the Estates ) to write a new constitution in 1719 and 1721, that gave Sweden half a century of first renewed conciliatory, and then parliamentary government.

Initially defeated by the Swedes and forced to recognize the independence of Holstein-Gottorp, Frederick finally drove the next duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Duke Charles Frederick ( who was Frederick IV's first cousin once removed ) out of Schleswig in 1713, and avoided the revenge contemplated by Charles Frederick's mother-in-law, Catherine I of Russia.

* July 14-Charles Batteux, philosopher ( born 1713 )

Charles Batteux ( May 6, 1713 – July 14, 1780 ) was a French philosopher and writer on aesthetics.

After the French ceded its colonies on Newfoundland and the Acadian mainland to the British by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, the French relocated the population of Plaisance, Newfoundland to Île Royale and the French garrison was established in the central eastern part at Ste.

Mesnager ( 1717 ), in which he impersonates Nicolas Mesnager, the French plenipotentiary who negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht ( 1713 ) and A Continuation of the Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy ( 1718 ), a satire on European politics and religion, professedly written by a Muslim in Paris.

Denis Diderot ( ; October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784 ) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer.

D ' Iberville's depleted French force captured York Factory by a ruse ; they laid siege to the fort while pretending to be a much larger army, the French held all of the outposts except Fort Albany until 1713.

* 1713 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress ( d. 1803 )

* 1713 – The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.

* 1713 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon ( d. 1780 )

* 1713 – Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician ( d. 1765 )

Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille ( 15 March 1713 – 21 March 1762 ) was a French astronomer.

* 1713 – Marie Fel, French opera singer ( d. 1794 )

The French held St. Kitts for 8 years, until the Treaty of Utrecht was signed ( 1713 ).

* Denis Diderot ( 1713 – 1784 ) French.

* February 11 – Antoine Dauvergne, French composer ( b. 1713 )

* March 6 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( b. 1713 )

* May 17 – Alexis Claude Clairaut, French mathematician ( b. 1713 )

* March 21 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer ( b. 1713 )

* February 20 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress ( b. 1713 )

* December 24 – Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader ( d. 1713 )