* 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 – 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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Upon the death of the Queen ( Maria Luisa of Savoy ), Alberoni in concert with La Trémoille arranged for a marriage in 1714 between the widowed King and Elisabetta Farnese, daughter of the Duke of Parma.

* May 4 – Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( b. 1714 )

Under Salic law, the Kingdom of Hanover passes to William's brother, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, ending the personal union of Britain and Hanover which has persisted since 1714.

* August 12 – Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician ( b. 1714 )

After her death he married Elisabeth Farnese, niece of Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma, in 1714.

* Niccolò Jommelli ( 1714 – 1774 ) served Duke Karl-Eugen of Württemberg in Stuttgart from 1753 to 1768.

On the accession of George I in 1714, Caroline's husband automatically became Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay.

Then the Duke of Berry, second in line after his brother the late Dauphin, died in a 1714 hunting accident.

In keeping with French royal tradition that princes should be put in the care of men when they reached their seventh birthdays, Louis was separated from his governess, Madame de Ventadour, in February 1717, and placed in the care of the Duke of Villeroi, who had been designated as his governor in Louis XIV's will of August 1714 and whose secretary was the young Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps.

This period was brought to a close with the Decree issued on 23 October 1714 by the Royal High Commission for Justice and Government of Catalonia-created by the Duke of Berwick-ordering the immediate transfer of the Faculties of Philosophy, Law and Canon Law to Cervera.

* Charles of France ( 1686 – 1714 ), Duke of Berry,

In 1714 the earldom of Clare was revived when he was created Viscount Haughton, in the County of Nottingham, and Earl of Clare, with remainder to his younger brother Henry Pelham, and the following year the dukedom was also revived when he was made Marquess of Clare and Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with similar remainder to his younger brother Henry.

: 1st Duke: also Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( 1715 ), Earl of Clare ( 1714 ), Baron Pelham of Laughton ( 1706 ), Baron Pelham of Stanmer ( 1762 ) and Pelham Baronet, of Laughton ( 1611 )

In 1714, after the death of the king's first wife, the Princess Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy, the Piacenzan Cardinal Giulio Alberoni successfully arranged the marriage between Philip and the ambitious Elisabeth Farnese, niece and stepdaughter of Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma.

Between the destruction by Charles, Duke of Guelders in 1504 and that brought by Louis XIV ’ s wars around 1700, Wavre would know several debilitating crises, either at the hand of foreign armies ( e. g., the Spanish in 1604 ) or because of epidemics ( 1624 – 1625, 1668 ) or major fires ( April 28, 1695 and July 17, 1714 ).

* John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby ( 13 June 1711 – 23 September 1714 )

The reverse follows the same general design as before, except the order of the shields is England and Scotland, France, Ireland, and Hanover, with the legend in 1714 (" Duke of Brunswick and Lueneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire "), and in other years (" Duke of Brunswick and Lueneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire ").

* John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough 1714 – 1722

* 29 October 1714 – 31 July 1750 His Royal Highness the Prince of Brazil, Duke of Braganza, etc ...

His services were too great to be neglected by the new Hanoverian King, and in 1714 he was created Earl of Clare, and in 1715 Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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.