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

• 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 Spanish Succession War.
• 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, Oxford University founded. Formerly Gloucester College, closed during the dissolution of monastries.

Births

• January 6 - Percivall Pott, London surgon
• March 8 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, composer, not to be confused with his father Johann Sebastian Bach (+ 1788)
• July 2 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer
• 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