1714
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1680s 1690s 1700s – 1710s – 1720s 1730s 1740s |
| Years: | 1711 1712 1713 – 1714 – 1715 1716 1717 |
Events
- George I becomes king of Great Britain
Births
- January 1 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1780)
- January 6 – Percivall Pott, English surgeon (d. 1788)
- January 26 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)
- February 2 – Gottfried August Homilius, German composer (d. 1785)
- February 22 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
- February 25 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792)
- February 25 – Hyde Parker, British admiral (d. 1782)
- February 26 – James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (d. 1758)
- March 8 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)
- March 27 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795)
- April 14 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (d. 1788)
- June 6 – King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
- June 17 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (d. 1762)
- June 17 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (d. 1784)
- July 2 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
- July 16 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (d. 1800)
- August 1 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
- August 14 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789)
- August 28 – Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
- September 10 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
- September 19 – Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1786)
- October 13 – Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (d. 1778)
- October 16 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
- November 13 – William Shenstone, English poet (d. 1763)
- November 25 – Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783)
- December 16 – George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (d. 1770)
- December 19 – John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
- December 21 – John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (d. 1774)
Deaths
1714 Media
Europe in 1714 at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Statue of King Alaungpaya in front of the Defence Services Academy
mistress of King Frederick of Sweden
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