1714
Year 1714 (MDCCXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
July–December
Date unknown
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
- 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)
- May 10 – Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1792)
- June 6 – King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
- June 17
- 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)
- October 25 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish philosopher and evolutionary thinker (d. 1799)
- 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
- 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)
- 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 – 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-Mühlingen (b. 1653)
References
- ^ Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 208–209. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.