* 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.

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

** Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian ( b. 1714 )

* The Fable of the Bees ( 1714 ) by Bernard de Mandeville

* 1714 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer ( d. 1784 )

* 1714 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French engineer and writer ( d. 1800 )

In 1714 Etiene Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont ascended the Missouri as far as the mouth of the Cheyenne River in central South Dakota.

* 1800 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer ( b. 1714 )

* July 29 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France ( b. 1714 )

* March 29 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer ( b. 1714 )

* February 17 – Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist ( d. 1714 )

* December 28 – Emerich de Vattel, Swiss philosopher ( b. 1714 )

* September 4 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer ( b. 1714 )

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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.

He parodied Homer to serve the cause of Antoine Houdar de La Motte, ( 1672 – 1731 ) an ingenious paradoxer ; Marivaux had already done something similar for François Fénelon, whose Telemachus he parodied and updated as Le Telemaque travesti ( written in 1714 but not published until 1736 ).

* Les Effets surprenants de la sympathie ( 1713 – 1714 )

The fall of Barcelona in 1714 meant the end of the Spanish Succession War and the defeat and destruction of the Crown of Aragon, and this was reflected on the Decretos de Nueva Planta, issued by Phillip V of Spain in 1715.

On 29 July 1714, upon the insistence of his morganatic wife, the marquise de Maintenon, Louis XIV elevated his legitimised children to the rank of Princes of the Blood, which " entitled them to inherit the crown if the legitimate lines became extinct ".

* Marc René, marquis de Montalembert ( 1714 – 1800 ), military engineer and writer

* 1714 French-Canadian explorer Louis Juchereau de St. Denis attacked by Comanches

In or around 1714, Ximénez incorporated the Spanish content in book one, chapters 2-21 of his Historia de la provincia de San Vicente de Chiapa y Guatemala de la orden de predicadores.