1714
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| Centuries: | 17th century - 18th century - 19th century |
| Decades: | 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s
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| Years: | 1711 1712 1713 - 1714 - 1715 1716 1717 |
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Year 1714 (MDCCXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1714
[edit] January - June
[edit] July - December
- July 27 - The first important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Gangut.
- August 1 - George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain.
- September 11 - Catalonia and Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Borbonic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
[edit] Undated
- The world's first ever mixed gender school was established in Croydon, south of London, England. Archbishop Tenison's C of E High School, Croydon
- 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, 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).
- The British Parliament votes "to offer a reward (£10,000 for any method capable of determining a ship's longitude within one degree; £15,000, within 40 minutes, and £20,000 within one half a degree) "for such person or persons as shall discover the Longitude."
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1714 MDCCXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2467 |
| Armenian calendar | 1163 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -130 – -129 |
| Berber calendar | 2664 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2258 |
| Burmese calendar | 1076 |
| Chinese calendar | 4350/4410-11-15 (癸巳年十一月十五日) — to — 4351/4411-11-25(甲午年十一月廿五日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1430 – 1431 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1706 – 1707 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5474 – 5475 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1769 – 1770 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1636 – 1637 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4815 – 4816 |
| Holocene calendar | 11714 |
| Iranian calendar | 1092 – 1093 |
| Islamic calendar | 1125 – 1126 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōtoku 4 (正徳4年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2374 (皇紀2374年) |
| Julian calendar | 1759 |
| Korean calendar | 4047 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2257 |
- January 1 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (died 1780)
- January 6 - Percivall Pott, English surgeon (died 1788)
- January 26 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (died 1785)
- February 2 - Gottfried August Homilius, German composer (died 1785)
- February 22 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (died 1795)
- February 25
- René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (died 1792)
- Hyde Parker, British admiral (died 1782)
- February 26 - James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (died 1758)
- March 8 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, German composer (died 1788)
- March 27 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (died 1795)
- April 14 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (died 1788)
- June 6 - King Joseph I of Portugal (died 1777)
- June 17
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (died 1762)
- César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (died 1784)
- July 2 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (died 1787)
- July 16 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (died 1800)
- August 1 - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (died 1782)
- August 14 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (died 1789)
- August 28 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1774)
- September 10 - Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (died 1774)
- September 19 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (died 1786)
- October 13 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (died 1778)
- October 16 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (died 1795)
- October 25 - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish philosopher and evolutionary thinker (died 1799)
- November 13 - William Shenstone, English poet (died 1763)
- November 25 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (died 1783)
- December 16 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (died 1770)
- December 19 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (died 1779)
- December 21 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (died 1774)
- See also Category: 1714 births.
[edit] Deaths
- February 2 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of Yorkshire (born 1643)
- February 24 - Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (born 1637)
- May 15 - Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar (born c.1665)
- June 8 - Electress Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (born 1630)
- June 22 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (born 1662)
- August 1 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (born 1665)
- August 25 - Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (born 1654)
- August 26 - Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (born 1632)
- October 5 - Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (born 1630)
- October 10 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (born 1646)
- November 5 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (born 1633)
- See also Category: 1714 deaths.
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