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In 1714, John Reid, the first Surveyor General of East Jersey, wanted the county seat located in Freehold Township and thus sold the property to the Board of Chosen Freeholders at a bargain price, what may have been the deciding factor in Freehold's competition with Middletown and Shrewsbury for the site.
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* 1643 – John Sharp, English Archbishop of York ( d. 1714 )
John Radcliffe ( 1652 – 1714 ) was an English physician.
* Hone, Campbell R. ( 1950 ) The Life of Dr. John Radcliffe, 1652 – 1714, Benefactor of the University of Oxford.
* September 25 – John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier ( b. 1714 )
* February 16 – John Sharp, English Archbishop of Yorkshire ( d. 1714 )
* May 3 – John Winthrop, American astronomer ( b. 1714 )
In 1714 he moved to work at the new theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, managed by entrepreneur John Rich.
It was known that John Radcliffe, physician to William III and Mary II of England, intended to build a library in Oxford at least two years before his death in 1714.
John Tufts House ( 1714 )
The township was first settled in the early 18th century by Colonel John Reading ( 1657 – 1717 ), who was instrumental in the creation of Amwell Township in 1708 and also worked for the creation of Hunterdon County in 1714.
The town was named for Lutheran minister John Christopher Hartwick ( 1714 – 1796 ), an early landowner of the town.
They had two younger brothers: George ( 1654 – 1710 ), who later became an admiral in the Royal Navy ; and Charles ( 1656 – 1714 ), who became a general and later served on campaign in Europe with John.
* The man whom Dickens eventually mentions in his letters and who strongly resembles the character portrayed by Dickens's illustrator, John Leech, was a noted British eccentric and miser named John Elwes ( 1714 – 1789 ).
Another work by Fortescue, written in English, was published in 1714 by John Fortescue Aland, under the title of The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy.
* John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby ( 13 June 1711 – 23 September 1714 )
At the accession of King George I in 1714, John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar was deprived of the governorship, as well as the post of Scottish Secretary.
Having studied mathematics under John Machin and John Keill, in 1708 he obtained a remarkable solution of the problem of the " centre of oscillation ," which, however, remained unpublished until May 1714, when his claim to priority was disputed by Johann Bernoulli.
John Johnstone was Mayor of New York from 1714 to 1719.
** Sir John Fortescue – The Governaunce of England ( first published 1714 )
* Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke: 17 August 1713-31 August 1714
The narrator, John Ridd, says he was born on 29 November 1661 ; in Chapter 24, he mentions Queen Anne as the current monarch, so the time of narration is 1702 – 1714 making him 40 – 52 years old.
* John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough 1714 – 1722
1714 and first
* 1714 – The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy.
The term first appeared in the Russian documents in the seventeenth century in documents from 1688, 1700 and 1714.
It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover — George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom, and George IV of the United Kingdom — who reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to June 1830.
The first of these was George I Louis, who acceded to the British throne in 1714.
Motivated by these disasters, in 1714 the British government established the Board of Longitude: prizes were to be awarded to the first person to demonstrate a practical method for determining the longitude of a ship at sea.
Before the 19th century, the first use of the word " police " recorded in government documents in the United Kingdom was the appointment of Commissioners of Police for Scotland in 1714 and the creation of the Marine Police in 1798 ( set up to protect merchandise at the Port of London ).
Although George I ( 1714 – 1727 ) attended Cabinet meetings at first, after 1717 he withdrew because he did not speak English and was bored with the discussions.
* 1714 – George I arrives in Great Britain for the first time since becoming king on August 1st.
Queen Anne, who reigned from 1702 to 1714, had favoured deeper political integration between the two kingdoms and became the first monarch of Great Britain.
George I of Great Britain ( reigned 1714 to 1727 ) was the first British monarch to delegate some executive powers to a Prime Minister and a cabinet of the ministers, largely because he was also the monarch of Hanover in Germany and did not speak English fluently.
Pope's most famous poem is The Rape of the Lock, first published in 1712, with a revised version published in 1714.
In 1714, Peter's galley navy managed to capture a small detachment of the Swedish navy in the first Russian naval victory near Hanko peninsula.
* The University of Michigan Special Collections Library owns several early printings, including the first ( 1687 ), second ( 1713 ), second revised ( 1714 ), unnumbered ( 1723 ), and third ( 1726 ) editions of the Principia.
The Danish government began the first organized Protestant mission work through its College of Missions, established in 1714.
He then began a short association with Handel in 1713 to 1714, and acted in the first performances of Il pastor fido and Teseo and played Argantes in a revival of Rinaldo.
Emanuel Bach was born in Weimar in 1714 to Johann Sebastian Bach and his first wife, Maria Barbara.
* Maria Luisa of Savoy ( 1688 – 1714 ), queen consort of Spain, the daughter of Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, first wife of Philip V of Spain, mother of Louis and Ferdinand VI of Spain
The first European settlement in what was to become Orange County was Germanna, formed when Governor Alexander Spotswood settled 12 immigrant families from Westphalia, Germany there in 1714 ; a total of 42 people.
The first English settlers in Brunswick county swarmed into the lands near Fort Christanna during its 4 years of operation ( 1714 – 1718 ).
In 1714, the first county government was established.
The first church was established in October 1714.
Leicester was first settled in 1713 and was officially incorporated in 1714.
Burlington built the villa with enough room to house his prized art collection, regarded as containing " some of the best pictures in Europe ", and his extensive array of furniture, much of which was purchased on his first Grand Tour of Europe in 1714.
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