* 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

* May – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter ( b. 1714 )

In 1714, Church sold his land, along with the water rights to Richard Borden of Tiverton and his brother Joseph.

* Richard Blechynden 1714 – 36

Richard Wilson ( 1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782 ) was a Welsh landscape painter and one of the founder members in 1768 of the Royal Academy.

The Welsh painter Richard Wilson ( 1714 – 1782 ) is arguably the first major British landscapist, but rather more notable for Italian scenes than Welsh ones, although he did paint several on visits from London.

** Chapter titles: The Fertile Soil ; The Church is Built ; The Early Years ( 1714 – 1758 ); The Age of Richard Price ; New Causes for Old ; The Ideal of Service ; The Lights Go Out ; The Present Day.

** Chapter titles: The Fertile Soil ; The Church is Built ; The Early Years ( 1714 – 1758 ); The Age of Richard Price ; New Causes for Old ; The Ideal of Service ; The Lights Go Out ; The Present Day.

* Richard Nugent, 3rd Earl of Westmeath ( d. 1714 )

* Richard Wilson ( painter ) ( 1714 – 1782 ), Welsh landscape painter

There was final creation in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1714 for Richard Temple, who was created Viscount Cobham four years later, with which the barony has remained merged.

** Chapter titles: The Fertile Soil ; The Church is Built ; The Early Years ( 1714 – 1758 ); The Age of Richard Price ; New Causes for Old ; The Ideal of Service ; The Lights Go Out ; The Present Day.

* Richard Ingram, 5th Viscount of Irvine 16 December 1714 – 10 April 1721

* Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford 12 November 1714 – 14 June 1723

The Grant Piper by Richard Waitt, 1714.

The Grant Piper by Richard Waitt, 1714.

Walter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of Forfar ( 1633 – 20 November 1714 ) was a son of Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar, and Lady Mary Weston, daughter of Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland.

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

** David Davies ( clergyman ) ( 1714 – 1819 ), Welsh clergyman and social historian