Editing 1713 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 11]] &ndash; The [[Second Treaty of Utrecht]] between Great Britain and France ends the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Pocket Date Book|url=https://archive.org/details/pocketdatebooko00categoog|location=London|publisher=Chapman and Hall|first=William L. R.|last=Cates|author-link=William Leist Readwin Cates|year=1863}}</ref> France cedes [[Newfoundland Colony|Newfoundland]], [[Acadia]], [[Hudson Bay]] and [[St Kitts]] to Great Britain.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* [[April 14]] &ndash; First performance, in London, of [[Joseph Addison]]'s libertarian play ''[[Cato, a Tragedy]]'', which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Litto|first=Fredric M.|title=Addison's Cato in the Colonies|year=1966|volume=23|journal=[[William and Mary Quarterly]]|issue=3|pages=431–449|doi=10.2307/1919239|jstor=1919239}}</ref>
* [[April 19]] &ndash; With no living male heirs, [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor]], issues the [[Pragmatic Sanction of 1713]], to ensure one of his daughters will inherit the [[Habsburg]] lands.
* [[May 1]] &ndash; As part of the Treaty of Utrecht, the [[Spanish Crown]] agrees the ''[[Asiento de Negros]]'' with [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]], granting a subsidiary of the British South Sea Company, the [[Real Asiento de Inglaterra]], a 30-year monopoly in the supply of African slaves to colonial Spanish America.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492–1800|last=Blackburn|first=Robin|year=1998|publisher=Verso|isbn=1859841953}}</ref>
* [[May 2]] &ndash; In the [[Great Northern War]], a fleet of the Russian Navy, transporting 12,000 soldiers, sails from [[Kronstadt]] to attack the Swedish Army at [[Helsinki]].
* [[May 6]] &ndash; The [[List of Parliaments of Ireland|Parliament of Ireland]] is dissolved by [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]] and new elections are set.
* [[May 13]] &ndash; King [[Philip V of Spain]] issues an ''auto accordado'' that changes the [[order of succession]] for the Spanish throne allowing a female descendant within the House of Bourbon to rule. The change will allow his great-great-granddaughter to ascend the throne in 1833 as [[Isabella II of Spain|Queen Isabella II]].
* [[May 17]] &ndash; ''[[Ottone in villa]]'', the first opera by composer [[Antonio Vivaldi]], is given its initial performance, debuting at the Teatro delle Grazie in [[Vicenza]]
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Great Northern War]]: The Russian fleet lands a force of 10,000 men at [[Pernå]] on the southern coast of Finland.
* [[June 1]] ''(approx.)'' &ndash; Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia into the Pamlico Peninsula to defeat the Machapunga and Coree tribes.
* [[June 23]] &ndash; French residents of [[Acadia]] are given one year to declare allegiance to Great Britain, or leave [[Nova Scotia]].