* 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 – 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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Since 1714, the succession of the British monarchs of the houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( Windsor ) has been due to their descent from James VI and I of the House of Stuart.

* 1799 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge ( b. 1714 )

Sophia, a granddaughter of James VI and I, died less than two months before she would have become queen ; her claim to the thrones passed on to her eldest son, George Louis, Elector of Hanover, who ascended them as George I on 1 August 1714 Old Style.

* James Burnett, Lord Monboddo ( 1714 – 1799 ) Scottish.

* December 25 – James Hervey, English clergyman and writer ( b. 1714 )

* May 26 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, a Scottish jurist ( b. 1714 )

* July 5 – James Townley, English dramatist ( b. 1714 )

* August 27 – James Burgh, British Whig politician and writer ( b. 1714 )

The Act of Settlement restricts the succession to the legitimate Protestant descendants of Sophia of Hanover ( 1630 – 1714 ), a granddaughter of James I.

* James Burnett, Lord Monboddo ( 1714 – 1799 ) philosopher, judge, founder of modern comparative historical linguistics

* 1714 James Hawkins

Seven children followed: Mary ( 1662 – 1694 ), James ( 1663 – 1667 ), Anne ( 1665 – 1714 ), Charles ( 1666 – 1667 ), Edgar ( 1667 – 1671 ) and two daughters, Henrietta ( 1669 – 1669 ) and Catherine ( 1671 – 1671 ); all of her sons and two of her daughters died in infancy.

* James Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry ( 1697 – 1714 / 5 )

Osceola's maternal great-grandfather was James McQueen, who was Scots-Irish and in 1714, the first European to trade with the Creek in Alabama.

For most of the time of the personal union between Great Britain ( later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ) and the Electorate of Hanover ( later Kingdom of Hanover ) from 1714 until 1837 the ministers of the German Chancery were working in two small rooms within St James ' Palace.

Construction began in February 1714 under the architect James Gibbs, being his first major project following his return from Italy.

James Hervey ( 5 March 1713 – May 1714 )

In 1714 James, Duke of Ormonde, sold the Manor of Arklow to John Allen of Stillorgan, County Dublin.

The title was created again in 1714 in the Peerage of Great Britain for James Brydges, 9th Baron Chandos.

His Scotch-Irish grandfather James Graham ( 1714 – 1763 ) was born in Drumbo, County Down, Northern Ireland and settled in Chester County in the Province of Pennsylvania.

* James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos ( 1642 – 1714 ), great-great-grandson of the 1st Baron

* James Brydges, 9th Baron Chandos ( 1674 – 1744 ) ( created Earl of Carnarvon in 1714 and Duke of Chandos in 1719 )

Holborne's son, also named James, was admitted as advocate on November 23, 1714, becoming thereafter an Examiner in the Exchequer.

It was rebuilt in 1714 – 15, to a design by John James, a major architect of his day ( and an associate of Sir Christopher Wren ).