1714 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1714 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

March - The Scriblerus Club, an informal group of literary friends, is formed by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot (at whose London house they meet), Thomas Parnell, Henry St. John and Robert Harley.^[1]
14 April - Queen Anne performs the last touching for the "King's evil".^[2]
19 May - Queen Anne refuses to allow members of the House of Hanover to settle in Britain during her lifetime.^[3]
July - Parliament offers the Longitude prize to anyone who can solve the problem of accurately determining a ship's longitude.
27 July - Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer dismissed as Lord High Treasurer.^[4]
30 July- Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury becomes the new Lord High Treasurer.
1 August - George, elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain following the death of Queen Anne.^[4]
18 September - King George arrives in Britain for the first time, landing at Greenwich.^[3]
20 October - Coronation of King George I^[3] at Westminster Abbey, giving rise to Coronation riots in over twenty towns in England.^[5]

Archbishop Tenison's School, the world's earliest surviving mixed gender school, is established by Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Croydon.
Worcester College, Oxford, is founded (formerly Gloucester College, closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries).

6 January - Percivall Pott, surgeon (died 1788)
25 February - Hyde Parker, admiral (died 1782)
26 February - James Hervey, clergyman and writer (died 1758)
14 April - Adam Gib, religious leader (died 1788)
1 August - Richard Wilson, painter (died 1782)
25 October - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, philosopher and evolutionary thinker (died 1799)
13 November - William Shenstone, English poet (died 1763)
date unknown - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, politician (died 1778)

↑ Rumbold, Valerie (2009). "Scriblerus Club (act. 1714)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-02-04. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
↑ Werrett, Simon (2000). "Healing the Nation’s Wounds: Royal Ritual and Experimental Philosophy in Restoration England". History of Science 38: 377–99. Bibcode:2000HisSc..38..377W.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 208–209. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ 4.0 4.1 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 294. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ Monod, Paul Kleber (1993). Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788. Cambridge University Press. pp. 173–178.