Decades: 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s
Years: 1708 1709 1710 1711 1712 - 1713 - 1714 1715 1716 1717 1718
Events April 11 - War of the Spanish Succession: Treaty of Utrecht first Orrery built by George Graham Year in topic 1713 in literature 1713 in science Births March - Francis Lewis - a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence April 12 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal - French writer March 15 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille - French astronomer May 3 - Alexis Claude Clairault - French mathematician September 23 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain October 5 - Denis Diderot - French writer and philosopher Allan Ramsay - Scottish painter Richard Wilson - Welsh landscape painter Junipero Serra - a Spanish Franciscan Deaths January 8 - Arcangelo Corelli - composer May 20 - Thomas Sprat - English divine Thomas Ellwood - English religious writer Elizabeth Barry - English actor
