1714

This article is about the year 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

1714 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1714 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1714 MDCCXIV
Ab urbe condita	2467
Armenian calendar	1163 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԳ
Assyrian calendar	6464
Bengali calendar	1121
Berber calendar	2664
British Regnal year	12 Ann. 1 – 1 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar	2258
Burmese calendar	1076
Byzantine calendar	7222–7223
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4410 or 4350     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4411 or 4351
Coptic calendar	1430–1431
Discordian calendar	2880
Ethiopian calendar	1706–1707
Hebrew calendar	5474–5475
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1770–1771
- Shaka Samvat	1636–1637
- Kali Yuga	4815–4816
Holocene calendar	11714
Igbo calendar	714–715
Iranian calendar	1092–1093
Islamic calendar	1125–1126
Japanese calendar	Shōtoku 4 (正徳４年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4047
Minguo calendar	198 before ROC 民前198年
Thai solar calendar	2256–2257

1714 (MDCCXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Julian calendar, the 1714th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 714th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1710s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1714 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• March 7 – Treaty of Rastatt signed between Austria and France concluding the War of the Spanish Succession between them. Austria receives from Spain, Spanish territories in Italy – the Kingdom of Naples, Duchy of Milan and Kingdom of Sardinia – as well as the Southern Netherlands; and from France Freiburg and Landau. The Austrian Habsburg Empire reaches its largest territorial extent yet with Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, succeeding Philip V of Spain as ruler in the ceded territories.
• May 19 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain, refuses to allow members of the House of Hanover to settle in Britain during her lifetime.

July–December

August 1: King George I of Great Britain

• July – Longitude prize: The Parliament of Great Britain votes "to offer a reward for such person or persons as shall discover the Longitude." (£10,000 for any method capable of determining a ship's longitude within 1 degree; £15,000, within 40 minutes, and £20,000 within ½ a degree.)
• July 27 – Battle of Gangut: The Imperial Russian Navy gains its first important victory, against the Swedish Navy.
• August 1 – George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain and Ireland on the death of Queen Anne.
• September 11 – War of the Spanish Succession: Barcelona taken after a long siege and Catalonia surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies.
• December 9 – Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718): The Ottoman Empire declares war on the Republic of Venice.

Date unknown

• Archbishop Tenison's School, the world's earliest surviving mixed gender school, is established by Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Croydon, south of London, England.
• 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, after Biloxi (1699) and Mobile, Alabama (1702) were separated).
• Worcester College, University of Oxford is founded (formerly Gloucester College, closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries).
• Stockholm County founded.
• Redirection of the river Kander (Switzerland) into Lake Thun.

Births

• January 1 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, Italian soprano castrato, voice teacher and author of books on singing (d. 1800)
• January 1 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Prussian Lithuanian Lutheran pastor, poet, author of The Seasons (d. 1780)
• January 6 – John Christopher Hartwick, Lutheran clergyman (d. 1796)
• January 6 – Percivall Pott (d. 1788)
• January 10 – Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun (d. 1787)
• January 16 – Carl Jesper Benzelius, Swedish bishop (d. 1793)
• January 16 – Francis V de Beauharnais, French nobleman, soldier, politician, colonial governor and admiral. (d. 1800)
• January 20 – Hugh Farmer, British theologian (d. 1787)
• January 21 – Anna Morandi Manzolini, Italian artist (d. 1774)
• January 24 – Henri Joseph Bouchard d'Esparbès de Lussan d'Aubeterre, Marshal of France (d. 1788)
• January 26 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French artist (d. 1785)
• February 1 – Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney, Irish Earl (d. 1791)
• February 2 – Gottfried August Homilius, German composer, cantor and organist (d. 1785)
• February 5 – Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, German botanist (d. 1786)
• February 11 – Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, German-Prussian diplomat and later Prime Minister of Prussia (d. 1800)
• February 12 – Sebastian Sailer, Premonstratensian preacher and writer (d. 1777)
• February 14 – William Vane, 2nd Viscount Vane, Irish Viscount (d. 1789)
• February 18 – John Howe, 2nd Baron Chedworth, eldest son of John Howe (d. 1762)
• February 22 – Sarah Osborn, American author (d. 1796)
• February 22 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny (d. 1795)
• February 25 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou (d. 1792)
• February 25 – Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet, Royal Navy vice admiral (d. 1782)
• February 26 – James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (d. 1758)
• February 28 – Gioacchino Conti, Italian opera singer (d. 1761)
• March 1 – Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Menshikov, Russian army officer (d. 1764)
• March 2 – John Hamilton, Royal Navy officer (d. 1755)
• March 6 – Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, French painter (d. 1789)
• March 8 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Classical composer (d. 1788)
• March 11 – Cornelis Elout, Haarlem regent (d. 1779)
• March 17 – Maximilian Reichsgraf von Hamilton, Catholic bishop (d. 1776)
• March 19 – Aymar Joseph de Roquefeuil et du Bousquet, French admiral (d. 1782)
• March 21 – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, British judge (d. 1794)
• March 25 – Matthew Griswold, American judge (d. 1799)
• March 25 – Friedrich Christian Glume, German artist (d. 1752)
• March 27 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian (d. 1795)
• April 1 – Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish architect and engraver (d. 1791)
• April 7 – John Elwes, British politician (d. 1789)
• April 14 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (d. 1788)
• April 15 – Claude Yvon, French encyclopedist (d. 1791)
• April 16 – Pedro António Avondano, Italian composer (d. 1782)
• April 18 – Jacques-Nompar III de Caumont, duc de La Force, French nobleman (d. 1755)
• April 25 – Emer de Vattel, Swiss jurist (d. 1767)
• May 6 – James Townley, British dramatist (d. 1778)
• May 6 – Anton Raaff, German opera tenor (d. 1797)
• May 10 – Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actor (d. 1792)
• May 12 – Johan Daniel Berlin, Norwegian composer and organist (d. 1787)
• May 14 – William Whitmore, British general (d. 1771)
• May 17 – Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, French royal (d. 1773)
• May 20 – Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British lawyer and politician (d. 1794)
• June 3 – John Conder, Independent minister at Cambridge who later became President of the Independent College (d. 1781)
• June 6 – Joseph I of Portugal, Prince of Brazil (d. 1777)
• June 17 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer and cartographer (d. 1784)
• July 1 – Michael Lally, brigadier-general (d. 1773)
• July 2 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
• July 8 – Friedrich Gottfried Abel, German physician (d. 1794)
• July 12 – Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov, Russian noble and politician (d. 1767)
• July 16 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French general (d. 1800)
• July 17 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (d. 1762)
• July 17 – John Forbes, Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (d. 1796)
• July 21 – Grand Duchess Natalya Alexeyevna of Russia, Russian Grand Duchess (d. 1728)
• August 1 – Edward Penny, British painter (d. 1791)
• August 1 – Richard Wilson, Landscape painter (d. 1782)
• August 3 – William Cole, British antiquarian (d. 1782)
• August 14 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789)
• August 15 – Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl Stanhope, British Earl (d. 1786)
• August 23 – Hans Jacob Scheel, Norwegian general (d. 1774)
• August 28 – Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Russian general (d. 1774)
• August 28 – Jean-Baptiste Descamps, Flemish painter and art historian (d. 1791)
• August 29 – Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia (d. 1784)
• September 1 – Samuel Martin, British politician (d. 1788)
• September 10 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
• September 17 – Gottlieb Rabener, German writer (d. 1771)
• September 19 – Charles Humphreys, American politician (d. 1786)
• September 23 – Eugene Jean, Count of Soissons, Prince of Savoy (d. 1734)
• September 24 – Alaungpaya, King of Burma (d. 1760)
• September 29 – Petrus Albertus van der Parra, Dutch colonial governor (d. 1775)
• September 30 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French academic (d. 1780)
• October 1 – António of Braganza, Child of Palhavã, Portuguese nobleman (d. 1800)
• October 3 – Joseph Spencer, American general (d. 1789)
• October 16 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
• October 19 – Joseph von Petrasch, German philologist (d. 1772)
• October 25 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge, scholar of language evolution and philosopher (d. 1799)
• October 26 – Princess Marie Victoire d'Arenberg, the Margravine of Baden-Baden as consort of Augustus George (d. 1793)
• October 30 – Christoph Anton Migazzi, Catholic bishop (d. 1803)
• November 1 – Johann Joachim Spalding, German theologian (d. 1804)
• November 2 – Camillo Almici, Priest (d. 1779)
• November 4 – John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow, Scottish nobleman (d. 1775)
• November 10 – Mathieu Tillet, French botanist (d. 1791)
• November 18 – William Shenstone, English gardener (d. 1763)
• November 24 – Thomas Zebrowski, Jesuit scientist (d. 1758)
• November 26 – Pierre-François Brice, artist (d. 1794)
• November 27 – Jean Philippe Goujon de Grondel, French general (d. 1819)
• December 1 – Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye, Explorer (d. 1755)
• December 4 – Israel Acrelius, Swedish missionary and clergyman (d. 1800)
• December 14 – Leonard Lispenard, New York merchant (d. 1790)
• December 16 – George Whitefield, English Anglican priest (d. 1770)
• December 18 – Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy, Hungarian prince (d. 1790)
• December 18 – Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans (d. 1734)
• December 19 – John Winthrop, President of Harvard University (d. 1779)
• December 21 – John Bradstreet, British Army general (d. 1774)
• December 21 – Paschen von Cossel, German lawyer (d. 1805)
• December 23 – Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Italian poet and librettist (d. 1795)
• December 23 – William Howard, Viscount Andover, British MP (d. 1756)
• December 31 – Arima Yoriyuki, Daimyo (d. 1783)
• December 31 – Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly, French astronomer (d. 1769)

Deaths

• January 5 – Mamia III Gurieli, Prince of Guria
• 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 (b. c. 1665)
• May 18 – Ivan Botsis, Russian admiral of Greek origin (unknown birth date)
• May 30 – Gottfried Arnold, German church historian (b. 1666)
• 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 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1665)
• August 26 – Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1654)
• August 26 – Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632)
• October – Raja Sitaram Ray, autonomous king, vassal of the Mughal Empire
• 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)
• December 10 – Anthony Günther, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. 1653)