* 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 )

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

Guillaume Thomas Raynal ( April 12, 1713 – March 6, 1796 ) was a French writer and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment.

Among the committee's members were John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ), Thomas Sprat ( 1635 – 1713 ), and John Dryden ( 1631 – 1700 ).

In 1713, to help establish the northern colony's claim along the eastern bank, Thomas Smith, son of former Carolina governor Thomas Smith, Sr. was issued a land grant to what we now call Smith Island ( called " Cape Island " at the time ).

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

In 1713 the next owner Hickman sold the 1½ story, 21 ' 9 " × 25 ' structure to Thomas and Mary Moore.

There is a common legend that in 1713 a cock boy named Humphrey Potter, whose duty it was to open and shut the valves of an engine he attended, made the engine self-acting by causing the beam itself to open and close the valves by suitable cords and catches ( known as the " potter cord "); however the plug tree device ( the first form of valve gear ) was very likely established practice before 1715 and is clearly depicted in the earliest known images of Newcomen engines by Henry Beighton 1717 ( believed by Hulse to depict the 1714 Griff colliery engine ) and by Thomas Barney ( 1719 ) ( depicting the 1712 Dudley Castle engine ).

Thomas Sprat ( 1635 – 20 May 1713 ), English divine, was born at Beaminster, Dorset, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he held a fellowship from 1657 to 1670.

* Thomas Pakenham, 1st Baron Longford ( 1713 – 1766 )

On 24 February 1713, Stanhope married Lucy Pitt ( 1692 – 1723 ), a younger daughter of Thomas Pitt, governor of Madras and the aunt of William Pitt.

* Sir Thomas Gage, 6th Baronet ( c. 1694 – 1713 )

The Baronetcy, of Abbey Leix in the Queen's County, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 28 September 1698 for the first Baron's father Reverend Thomas Vesey, Bishop of Killaloe ( 1713 – 1714 ) and Bishop of Ossory ( 1714 – 1730 ).

* Thomas Leigh, 4th Baron Leigh ( 1713 – 1749 )

On the death ( 20 May 1713 ) of Thomas Sprat the bishopric of Rochester and deanery of Westminster were offered to him ; but he turned them down.

Cotton is named on a stone in King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts, which also names early First Church ministers John Davenport ( d. 1670 ), John Oxenbridge ( d. 1674 ) and Thomas Bridge ( d. 1713 ).

Indeed, after the death of Thomas Brattle, treasurer of Harvard College in 1713, he bequeathed his organ to the Brattle Square Church in Boston, but the church ( which he had founded ) did not think it proper, and gave it to the King's Chapel, which was the Church of England.

* Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds ( 1713 – 1789 ), only son of the 3rd Duke

According to Thomas Macaulay ( Life and Writings of Addison, p. 215 ) Pope seized the opportunity to respond on Addison ’ s behalf " venting his malice under the show of friendship ", with The Narrative of Dr. Robert Norris, concerning the strange and deplorable frenzy of John Dennis ... ( 1713 ).

Thomas Rymer ( c. 1643 – 13 December 1713 ), English historiographer royal, was the younger son of Ralph Rymer, lord of the manor of Brafferton in Yorkshire, described by Clarendon as possessed of a good estate, who was executed for his share in the Presbyterian rising of 1663.

Over the centuries, many notable architects have worked on it, including its first owner, Thomas Chicheley ( between 1640 and 1670 ), James Gibbs ( between 1713 and 1730 ), James Thornhill ( 1721 ), Henry Flitcroft ( around 1749 ), John Soane ( 1790s ), and H. E. Kendall ( 1840s ).

Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine in 1713, and this date marks the accepted beginning of the Industrial Revolution ; however, its roots can be traced back into the 17th century.

* Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds ( 1713 – 1789 ), British Justice in Eyre and Cofferer of the Household

In 1713 he joint-managed the theater with Thomas Doggett, Colley Cibber, and Robert Wilks.

* " The Treaties of Utrecht ( 1713 )"-Brief discussion and extracts of the various treaties on François Velde's Heraldica website, with particular focus on the renunciations and their later reconfirmations.

François Pétis de la Croix ( 1653 – 1713 ) was a French orientalist.

** Jean François Baudesson, French painter of flowers and fruit ( died 1713 )

The Fonthill vase, painted by Barthélemy Remy, valet of François Roger de Gaignières, 1713.