* 1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter ( d. 1782 )

* 1714 – The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy.

* 1714 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter ( d. 1789 )

* Natalia Alexeievna Romanova ( 3 March 1714 – 3 November 1728 )

* 1714 – Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick ( d. 1774 )

* 1714 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader ( d. 1788 )

* Principality of Anhalt-Mühlingen: 1667 – 1714

In the early part of the Ottoman – Venetian War of 1714 – 1718 the Ottoman Fleet under Canum Hoca captured Aegina.

Andreas Schlüter ( 20 May 1664 – May 1714 ) was a German baroque sculptor and architect associated with the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and decoration.

The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667 – 1714.

The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667 – 1714.

In the same year he set up his periodical A Review of the Affairs of France which supported the Harley Ministry, chronicling the events of the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1702 – 1714 ).

* 1714 – George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader ( d. 1770 )

* 1637 – Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America ( d. 1714 )

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ( 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736 ) was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer ( 1709 ) and the mercury thermometer ( 1714 ), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.

* 1714 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian ( d. 1795 )

* 1665 – Anne of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland ( d. 1714 )

* 1714 – James Hervey, English clergyman and writer ( d. 1758 )

* 1714 – Gioacchino Conti, Italian soprano castrato ( d. 1761 )

* 1714 – Gottfried August Homilius, German composer ( d. 1785 )

* 1643 – John Sharp, English Archbishop of York ( d. 1714 )

* The Georgian era of British history ( 1714 – 1830 )

* Giovanni Arduino ( geologist ) ( 1714 – 1795 ), known as the “ father of Italian Geology ”

The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667 – 1714 ( 1999 ) excerpt and text search

* 1762 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher ( b. 1714 )

* May 26 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher ( b. 1714 )

The first European settlement in what was to become Orange County was Germanna, formed when Governor Alexander Spotswood settled 12 immigrant families from Westphalia, Germany there in 1714 ; a total of 42 people.

* The Rape of the Lock ( 1714 ) by Alexander Pope, inspired by a story recounted by his friend involving stolen hair.

The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 1712 in two cantos ( 334 lines ), but then revised, expanded and reissued under Pope's name on March 2, 1714, in a much-expanded 5-canto version ( 794 lines ).

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten ( July 17, 1714 – May 26, 1762 ) was a German philosopher.

The earliest of these is Captain Alexander Smith's Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen ( 1714 ).

The game of Ombre is Belinda's game in Alexander Pope ’ s poem The Rape of the Lock, written in 1714, where every incident in the whole deem is majestically described in detail.

* Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten ( 1714 – 1762 ), German philosopher

His best book is a Life of Cardinal Wolsey ( London, 1724 ), containing documents which are still valuable for reference ; of his other writings the Prefatory Epistle containing some remarks to be published on Homer's Iliad ( London, 1714 ), was occasioned by Alexander Pope's proposed translation of the Iliad, and his Theologia speculativa ( London, 1718 ), earned him the degree of D. D.

Balmain was born at Balhepburn in the Parish of Rhynd, Perthshire, Scotland, to Alexander Balmain ( b. 1714 ), tenant farmer, and his second wife, Jane Henderson.

* Alexander Garden ( politician ) ( 1714 – 1785 ), Scottish politician representing Aberdeenshire ; fourth cousin of the soldier

* Alexander Wilson ( astronomer ) ( 1714 – 1786 ), Scottish type-maker, meteorologist and astronomer

In 1714, he followed his brother, Johann Gottlieb Graun, to the school of the Kreuzkirche, Dresden, and sang in the Dresdner Kreuzchor and the chorus of the Dresden Opera.

****** Gottlieb Friedrich Bach ( 1714 – 1785 )-court organist, court painter Meinigen

Abraham Ruchat ( 1678 – 1750 ), who was published in Bourguet's periodicals, is best known as the author ( under the pen-name of Gottlieb Kypseler ) of an excellent guide-book to Switzerland, which was published from 1714 until 1778.

Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener ( 17 September 1714 – 22 March 1771 ), was a German writer of prose satires.

Ruchat is now best remembered as the author ( under the pen-name of Gottlieb Kypseler ) of an excellent guide-book to Switzerland, the Deuces de la Suisse, which first appeared in 1714 and passed through many editions, the latest being issued in 1778 ; but his Histoire de la Reformation de la Suisse ( 1727 – 1728 ) was much esteemed in his day.