1714

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.

1714 in other calendars

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	ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) 1840 or 1459 or 687     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) 1841 or 1460 or 688

Events

• George I becomes King of Great Britain

Births

• 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)

Deaths