1714

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