1714

Events

• August 1 - George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain.
• September 11 - Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Borbonic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
• The Duchy of Savoy and Piedmont becomes the Kingdom of Sardinia
• Louis Juchereau de St. Denis establishes Fort St. Jean Baptiste at the site of present day Natchitoches, Louisiana, the first permanent European settlement in the Louisiana Territory.
• Worcester College, University of Oxford founded. Formerly Gloucester College, closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721)

Births

• January 6 - Percivall Pott, London surgeon
• March 8 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, composer, not to be confused with his father Johann Sebastian Bach (+ 1788)
• July 2 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer
• August 1 - Richard Wilson - Welsh landscape painter
• September 10 - Niccol Jommelli, composer (+ 1774)
• October 16 - Giovanni Arduino, geologist
• November 13 - William Shenstone, English poet (d. 1763)

Deaths

• June 8 - Electress Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (b. 1630)
• August 1 - Queen Anne of Great Britain.
• Kaibara, Japanese philosopher

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