Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1713
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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
Science, Technology, & Medicine
Politics & Law
- 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
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
- Birth of Allan Ramsay, painter
- Death of Thomas Rymer
- Death of the Third Earl of Shaftesbury
- Death of Bishop Sprat
- Birth of Laurence Sterne
- Birth of James "Athenian" Stuart, architect
- Birth of Richard Wilson, painter
Miscellaneous
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