1714
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17th century - 18th century - 19th century
1714 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Science
Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders ---- From Categories:
births - deaths
Events
- August 1 - George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain.
- September 11 - Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Borbonic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- The Duchy of Savoy and Piedmont becomes the Kingdom of Sardinia
- Louis Juchereau de St. Denis establishes Fort St. Jean Baptiste at the site of present day Natchitoches, Louisiana, the first permanent European settlement in the Louisiana Territory.
- Worcester College, University of Oxford founded. Formerly Gloucester College, closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Ongoing events
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 Emmanuel 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
- February 2 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of Yorkshire (b. 1643)
- February 24 - Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637)
- May 15 - Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar
- June 8 - Electress Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (b. 1630)
- June 22 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (b. 1662)
- August 1 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
- August 25 - Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1654)
- August 26 - Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632)
- October 5 - Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
- October 10 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
- November 5 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633)