Births on April 12

Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French historian and author (d. 1796)

Guillaume Thomas Raynal (12 April 1713 – 6 March 1796) was a French writer and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment.

1 Mar

Tuscarora War
The siege and destruction of Fort Neoheroka begins during the Tuscarora War in North Carolina, effectively opening up the colony's interior to European colonization.
11 Apr

Queen Anne's War
War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
19 Apr

Pragmatic Sanction of 1713
With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa (not actually born until 1717).