Events of 1713

January–June

• January 17 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia out of Albermarle County, North Carolina in a second offensive against the Tuscarora. Heavy snows force the troops to take refuge in Fort Reading on the Pamlico River.

• February 4 – Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia under Colonel James Moore leaves Fort Reading to continue the campaign against the Tuscarora.

• February 25 – Frederick William I of Prussia begins his reign.

• March 1 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore's Carolina militia lays siege to the Tuscaroran stronghold of Fort Neoheroka, located a few miles up Contentnea Creek from Fort Hancock.

• March 20 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore's Carolina militia launches a major offensive against Fort Neoheroka.

• March 23 – Tuscarora War: Fort Neoheroka falls to the Carolina militia, effectively ending the Tuscarora nation's military strength. Two Tuscaroran allies, the Machapunga and Coree tribes, continue offensive actions against North Carolina.

• April 11 – War of the Spanish Succession: Treaty of Utrecht.

• June 1 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia into the Pamlico Peninsula to defeat the Machapunga and Coree tribes. This date is approximate.

• June 23 – French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada.

July–December

• July 13 – The Treaty of Portsmouth brings an end to Queen Anne's War.

• September 1 – Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia led by Colonel James Moore returns to South Carolina after mixed success in the campaign against the Machapunga and Coree.

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700–1721).

• War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713).

• Tuscarora War (1711 – 1715).

Births

• January 2 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)

• March 15 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)

• March 21 – Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1803)

• March 29 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)

• April 10 – John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (d. 1788)

• April 12 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796)

• April 21 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793)

• May 3 – Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (d. 1765)

• May 6 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)

• May 25 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)

• June 11 – Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)

• June 22 – Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (d. 1765)

• July 22 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)

• August 1 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780)

• September 23 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)

• October 5 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist (d. 1784)

• October 7 – Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)

• October 8 – Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1793)

• October 13 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (d. 1784)

• November 24 – Junipero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary (d. 1784)

• November 24 – Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (d. 1768)

• December 4 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (d. 1786)

• December 9 – Evan Kalikow, Russian poet and novelist (d. 1754)

• December 15 – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (d. 1802)

Deaths

• January 8 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)

• January 11 – Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637)

• January 12 – John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery, Governor of Jamaica and President of the Royal Society (b. 1639)

• February 4 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (b. 1671)

• February 25 – King Friedrich I of Prussia (b. 1657)

• March 18 – Juraj Jánošík, the Slovak Robin Hood (executed)

• May 20 – Thomas Sprat, English minister (b. 1635)

• July 7 – Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)

• October 15 – Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Elder, artist (b. 1666)

• October 20 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)

• November 7 – Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)

• November 17 – Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)

• December 14 – Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)

• date unknown – Thomas Ellwood, English religious writer (b. 1639)