1714: Year
| 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 |
Events
- George I becomes king of Great Britain
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 Emanuel 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
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