1713 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1713 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

27 March - First Treaty of Utrecht between Britain and Spain. Spain cedes Gibraltar and Minorca.^[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 Thomas Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy.
July to August - General election results in a Tory victory.^[3]

Board of Longitude established.^[1]
John Rowley of London produces an orrery to a commission by Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery.^[4]

Matthew Hale - The History and Analysis of the Common Law of England, the first published history of English law (posthumous).^[5]

4 February - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, politician and philosopher (born 1671)
20 May - Thomas Sprat, minister (born 1635)
7 July - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (born 1632)
20 October - Archibald Pitcairne, physician (born 1652)
October/November - Fabian Stedman, pioneer of change ringing (born 1640)
7 November - Elizabeth Barry, actress (born 1658)
14 December - Thomas Rymer, historian (born 1641)

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 208–209. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ "orrery". Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. September 2005.
↑ Hostettler, John (2002). The Red Gown: the Life and Works of Sir Matthew Hale. Chichester: Barry Rose Law Publishers. ISBN 1-902681-28-2.