1714
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 ).
Events of 1714
January - June
July - December
Undated
The world's first ever mixed-gender school, Tenison's School is established by Thomas Tenison in Croydon, south of London, England.
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 1 degree; £15,000, within 40 minutes, and £20,000 within 1/2 a degree) "for such person or persons as shall discover the Longitude ."
Ongoing events
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 )
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 )
See also Category: 1714 births .
Deaths
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 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 )
See also Category: 1714 deaths .
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