Newspapers come under the operation of the Stamp Act, in England; so many discontinue publication that it is called the "Fall of the Leaf."
Second Toggenburg War between the Reformed and Catholic cantons of
Switzerland.
%1713%. Peace of Utrecht ending the War of the Spanish Succession. Great Britain acquires Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Gibraltar, Minorca, Hudson Bay, and the Isle of St. Kitts; with the title of king the Duke of Savoy is ceded Sicily by Spain, and by France, Savoy and Nice with certain fortified places; the King of Prussia exchanges the principality of Orange and Châlons for Spanish Gelderland, Neuchâtel, and Valengin; Spain cedes to Austria, Naples, Milan, Spanish Tuscany, and sovereignty over the Spanish Netherlands; the harbor and fortifications of Dunkirk to be destroyed.
Charles I issues the Pragmatic Sanction securing succession to the female line in default of male issue.
%1714%. Establishment of the Clarendon Press at Oxford, from the profits of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.
Death of Anne and accession in England of George (I), Elector of Hanover.
Capture of Barcelona by the French and Spanish forces; the citizens deprived of their liberties.
Fahrenheit invents his thermometer.
%1715%. Jacobite rebellion in Britain in behalf of the Pretender.
Death of Louis XIV; he is succeeded by his great-grandson, Louis XV; the
Duke of Orléans regent.