What is 1714?
{{Year nav|1714}} {{Year in various calendars|1714}} {{Year article header|1714}} == Events == * [[George I of Great Britain|George I]] becomes [[King]] of [[Kingdom of Great Britain|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 (painter)|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