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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.
- 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 Brequigny
, French historian (d.
1795
)
- February 25
?
Rene 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 ?
Cesar-Francois Cassini de Thury
, French astronomer (d.
1784
)
- July 2
?
Christoph Willibald Gluck
, German composer (d.
1787
)
- July 16
?
Marc Rene, 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-Luneburg
(d.
1774
)
- September 10
?
Niccolo 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
)
