1714

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)