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| 1712 |
| | | Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock introduces a delicate vein of mock-heroic in English poetry | |
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| 1712 |
| | | The tsar formally marries Catherine, his mistress for nearly ten years (though they may have married secretly five years earlier) | |
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| 1712 |
| | | The violinist Archangelo Corelli composes his Christmas Concerto, the best known of his influential group of twelve Concerti Grossi | |
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| 1713 April 9 |
| | | Nave and chancel of St Mary's Church collapse leaving only the fifteenth-century tower, itself the survivor of an earlier building. | |
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| 1713 |
| | | The emperor Charles VI issues a Pragmatic Sanction, declaring that the remaining Habsburg empire can be inherited through the female line | |
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| 1713 |
| | | The treaties signed in Utrecht bring to an end the War of the Spanish Succession | |
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| 1713 |
| | | Edward Proger dies in Bushy House at the age of 96 | |
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| 1713 |
| | | The Diana or Arethusa Fountain, decorated with bronze sculptures by Hubert Le Sueur, is placed in the centre of the round pond in Bushy Park | |
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| 1714 |
| | | In the aftermath of the War of the Spanish Succession, the Spanish Netherlands are transferred to Austria | |
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| 1714 |
| | | Strasbourg and Alsace are ceded to Louis XIV and become part of France | |
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