1714
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1680s 1690s 1700s – 1710s – 1720s 1730s 1740s |
| Years: | 1711 1712 1713 – 1714 – 1715 1716 1717 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1714 MDCCXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2467 |
| Armenian calendar | 1163 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6464 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1635–1636 |
| Bengali calendar | 1121 |
| Berber calendar | 2664 |
| British Regnal year | 12 Ann. 1 – 1 Geo. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2258 |
| Burmese calendar | 1076 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7222–7223 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4410 or 4350 — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4411 or 4351 |
| Coptic calendar | 1430–1431 |
| Discordian calendar | 2880 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1706–1707 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5474–5475 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1770–1771 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1635–1636 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4814–4815 |
| Holocene calendar | 11714 |
| Igbo calendar | 714–715 |
| Iranian calendar | 1092–1093 |
| Islamic calendar | 1125–1126 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōtoku 4 (正徳４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1637–1638 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4047 |
| Minguo calendar | 198 before ROC 民前198年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 246 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2256–2257 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1840 or 1459 or 687 — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1841 or 1460 or 688 |
1714 (MDCCXIV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1714th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 714th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1710s decade. As of the start of 1714, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Events
[change | change source]- George I becomes King of Great Britain
Births
[change | change source]- January 1 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1780)
- January 6 – Percivall Pott, English surgeon (d. 1788)
- January 26 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)
- February 2 – Gottfried August Homilius, German composer (d. 1785)
- February 22 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
- February 25 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792)
- February 25 – Hyde Parker, British admiral (d. 1782)
- February 26 – James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (d. 1758)
- March 8 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)
- March 27 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795)
- April 14 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (d. 1788)
- June 6 – King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
- June 17 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (d. 1762)
- June 17 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (d. 1784)
- July 2 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
- July 16 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (d. 1800)
- August 1 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
- August 14 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789)
- August 28 – Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
- September 10 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
- September 19 – Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1786)
- October 13 – Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (d. 1778)
- October 16 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
- November 13 – William Shenstone, English poet (d. 1763)
- November 25 – Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783)
- December 16 – George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (d. 1770)
- December 19 – John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
- December 21 – John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (d. 1774)