1714

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s

Years: 1709 1710 1711 1712 1713 - 1714 - 1715 1716 1717 1718 1719

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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
• Natchitoches is established by by Louis Juchereau de St. Denis as the first permanent settlement in what would become the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
• Worcester College, University of Oxford founded. Formerly Gloucester College, closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Year in topics

• 1714 in literature

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
• September 10 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer (+ 1774)
• October 16 - Giovanni Arduino, geologist

Deaths

• June 8 - Electress Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain.
• August 1 - Queen Anne of Great Britain.
• Kaibara, Japanese philosopher\n

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