The first-known European to see the Platte was the French explorer Étienne de Veniard, sieur de Bourgmont in 1714, who named it the Nebraskier, after its Oto name, meaning " flat water ".

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

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

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

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

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

* 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 )

** Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian ( 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.

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.

Anne ( 6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714 ) ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702.

After the Hanoverian King George I ascended the British throne in 1714 through the Act of Settlement of 1701, real power continued to shift away from the sovereign.

When King George I ascended to the throne in August 1714, Dalrymple was sent as an envoy to the Court of France at Versailles.

After the Hanoverian George I ascended the throne in 1714 through an Act of Parliament, power began to shift from the Sovereign, and by the end of his reign the position of the ministers — who had to rely on Parliament for support — was cemented.

# Caroline of Ansbach ( 1714 – 1727 ) — became queen consort when George II ascended to the throne.

In order to clear his name, he wrote " Exact Description of Louisiana, of Its Harbors, Lands and Rivers, and Names of the Indian Tribes That Occupy It, and the Commerce and Advantages to Be Derived Therefrom for the Establishment of a Colony " in 1713 followed in 1714 by " The Route to Be Taken to Ascend the Missouri River.

In certain contexts it may be used to cover the whole period of the later Stuart monarchs as far as the death of Queen Anne and the accession of the Hanoverian George I in 1714 ; for example Restoration comedy typically encompasses works written as late as 1710.

He also published a work, which attracted considerable attention, on the question as to how far freedom of thinking might go in religious matters, De ingeniorum moderatione in religionis negotio ( Paris, 1714 ).

From 1714 the new Hanoverian dynasty conducted a far less ostentatious court, and largely withdrew from patronage of the arts, other than the necessary portraits.

A congregation had been formed there as far back as 1714.

He led an active musical life, giving concert tours that took him as far as Paris ( 1714 ) and Venice ( 1716 ).

Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.

In 1714, two traders in South Carolina supplied the Cherokee with firearms and directed them to attack the Yuchi villages on the Hiwassee River.

For example Barcelona had a great citadel built in 1714 to intimidate the Catalans against repeating their mid-17th-and early-18th-century rebellions against the Spanish central government.

At the time of its greatest activity, around 1714, it was an international association of 42 members from Carniola and the counties of central Austria assembled under the patronage of the bishop Franz Karl von Kaunitz.

In the fire that caught the old parish church in 1714 the central altar was burnt and six years later in 1720 it was replaced with a new altar featuring priceless wooden sculptures one of the most beautiful in the whole northern Croatia.

Image: Portrait of an officer, oil on canvas painting by Nicolas de Largillière, 1714-15, Art Gallery of New South Wales. jpg | Portrait of an officer, oil on canvas painting by Nicolas de Largillière, 1714 – 15, Art Gallery of New South Wales

The oldest remaining parishes in the diocese are Christ Church in Quincy, founded in 1704, St. Paul's in Newburyport, founded as Queen Anne's Chapel in 1711, St. Michael's Church in Marblehead, founded in 1714, Christ Church in Boston ( Old North Church ), founded in 1723, and St. Andrew's Church in South Scituate ( now Hanover ), founded in 1727.

In 1714, instigated by two fur traders from South Carolina, the Cherokee attacked and destroyed Chestowee.