* 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 ”

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* December 14 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer ( b. 1714 )

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ( 8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788 ) was a German classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second ( surviving ) son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.

* Hans Carl von Carlowitz ( 1645 – 1714 ), mining and forestry expert

* Carl von Carlowitz ( 1645 – 1714 )

* December 14 – Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, composer ( b. 1714 )

****** Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ( 1714 – 1788 )-the so-called „ Hamburger Bach “ or „ Berlin Bach “

* Carl Philipp Emanuel ( 8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788 ).

' ( English: Farina Brothers and Co .) after Johann Maria Farina ( I ) and Carl Hieronymus Farina joined in 1714 and 1716.

* Philipp Conrad Fabricius ( 1714 – 1774 ), botanist

Emanuel Bach was born in Weimar in 1714 to Johann Sebastian Bach and his first wife, Maria Barbara.

Duke Joseph Ferdinand Leopold of Bavaria, Prince of Asturias ( 28 October 1692 – 6 February 1699 ) was the son of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria ( 1679 – 1705, 1714 – 1726 ) and his first wife, Maria Antonia of Austria, daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, maternal granddaughter of King Felipe IV of Spain.

* 1706 Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, and Joseph Clemens, Elector of Cologne, for supporting France in the War of the Spanish Succession ( reversed 1714 )

Alfred Dürr has reasons to believe that Bach composed the cantata in Weimar for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity of 1714.

According to Dürr, Bach probably first performed the cantata on 15 July 1714.

Like three other cantatas, the early Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54 ( 1714 ), and the 1726 works Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35 and Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170, Bach wrote Gott soll allein mein Herze haben for a single alto soloist, but unlike those works a choir sings the chorale.

Bach is known to have owned a number of Frescobaldi's works, including a manuscript copy of Frescobaldi's Fiori musicali ( Venice, 1635 ), which he signed and dated 1714 and performed in Weimar the same year.

Bach first performed the cantata on 12 August 1714.

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

The voice parts can be sung by soloists or a choir, as the work is a " Choralkonzert " ( chorale concerto ) in the style of the 17th century, whereas Bach composed recitatives and arias for church cantatas only later, starting in 1714.

Bach composed the cantata in Weimar for Jubilate, the third Sunday after Easter, and first performed it in the Weimar court chapel on 22 April 1714.

Bach first performed the cantata in the Weimar court chapel on 22 April 1714, then performed it in Leipzig in his first year as Thomaskantor on 30 April 1724.