Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1713

Literature

• Carey, Poems on Several Occasions
• Daniel Defoe ends The Review
• Diaper, Dryades
• John Gay, Rural Sports
• Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest, Ode for Music
• 12 March: Richard Steele begins The Guardian
• Jonathan Swift, The Importance of the Guardian Considered
• Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea, Miscellany Poems

Theatre

• Joseph Addison, Cato
• Colley Cibber, Ximena
• John Dennis, Remarks upon Cato
• John Gay, The Wife of Bath
• Thomas Shadwell, The Humours of the Army

Art

• William Hogarth is apprenticed to an engraver

Music

• George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Teseo
• George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Birthday Ode for Queen Anne
• George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate
• George Frederick Händel (or Handel) awarded a pension by Queen Anne

Science, Technology, & Medicine

• The Board of Longitude is established in England to promote the discovery of a means of determining the longitude of ships at sea

Politics & Law

• Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issues the Pragmatic Sanction, giving the right of succession to his daughter, Maria Theresa
• Joseph Addison named Secretary of State for the Southern Department
• Daniel Defoe, Reasons against the Accession of the House of Hanover; What If the Pretender Should Come?
• Richard Steele becomes an MP
• Asiento Treaty

Philosophy & Theology

• Bentley, Remarks upon a Discourse of Free-thinking
• George Berkeley, Three Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous
• William Law is suspended for his Disssenting views
• Jonathan Swift becomes Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin
• Isaac Watts is forced out of the ministry

Milestones

• Death of Corelli, composer
• Birth of Allan Ramsay, painter
• Death of Thomas Rymer
• Death of the Third Earl of Shaftesbury
• Death of Bishop Sprat
• Birth of Stanley, composer
• Birth of Laurence Sterne
• Birth of James "Athenian" Stuart, architect
• Birth of Richard Wilson, painter

Miscellaneous