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Years: | 1711 1712 1713 1714 1715 1716 1717 |
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Gregorian calendar | 1714 MDCCXIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2467 |
Armenian calendar | 1163 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԳ |
Chinese calendar | 4350/4410-11-15 (癸巳年十一月十五日) — to —
4351/4411-11-25(甲午年十一月廿五日) |
Ethiopian calendar | 1706 – 1707 |
Hebrew calendar | 5474 – 5475 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1769 – 1770 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1636 – 1637 |
- Kali Yuga | 4815 – 4816 |
Iranian calendar | 1092 – 1093 |
Islamic calendar | 1126 – 1127 |
Japanese calendar | Shōtoku 4 (正徳4年) |
- Imperial Year | Kōki 2374 (皇紀2374年) |
- Jōmon Era | 11714 |
Thai solar calendar | 2257 |
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[edit] Events
- August 1 - George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain.
- July 27 - The first important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Gangut.
- September 11 - Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Borbonic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- The Duchy of Savoy and Piedmont becomes the Kingdom of Sardinia
- Louis Juchereau de St. Denis establishes Fort St. Jean Baptiste at the site of present day Natchitoches, Louisiana, the first permanent European settlement in the Louisiana Territory.
- Worcester College, University of Oxford founded. Formerly Gloucester College, closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
- Celesta Invented By Auguste Mundel
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (died 1780)
- January 6 - Percivall Pott, English surgeon (died 1788)
- January 26 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (died 1785)
- February 2 - Gottfried August Homilius, German composer (died 1785)
- February 22 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (died 1795)
- February 25 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (died 1792)
- February 25 - Hyde Parker, British admiral (died 1782)
- February 26 - James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (died 1758)
- March 8 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, German composer (died 1788)
- March 27 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (died 1795)
- April 14 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (died 1788)
- June 6 - King Joseph I of Portugal (died 1777)
- June 17 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (died 1762)
- June 17 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (died 1784)
- July 2 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (died 1787)
- July 16 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (died 1800)
- August 1 - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (died 1782)
- August 14 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (died 1789)
- August 28 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1774)
- September 10 - Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (died 1774)
- September 19 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (died 1786)
- October 13 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (died 1778)
- October 16 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (died 1795)
- October 25 - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish philosopher and evolutionary thinker (died 1799)
- November 13 - William Shenstone, English poet (died 1763)
- November 25 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (died 1783)
- December 16 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (died 1770)
- December 19 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (died 1779)
- December 21 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (died 1774)
[edit] Deaths
- February 2 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of Yorkshire (born 1643)
- February 24 - Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (born 1637)
- May 15 - Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar (born c.1665)
- June 8 - Electress Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (born 1630)
- June 22 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (born 1662)
- August 1 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (born 1665)
- August 25 - Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (born 1654)
- August 26 - Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (born 1632)
- October 5 - Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (born 1630)
- October 10 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (born 1646)
- November 5 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (born 1633)
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