Year (''' MDCCXIV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- The world's first ever mixed gender school was established in Croydon, south of London, England. Archbishop Tenison's C Of E High School, Croydon
- 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 , after Biloxi ( 1699 ) and Mobile, Alabama ( 1702 ) were separated.
- Worcester College , University Of Oxford is founded (formerly Gloucester College , closed during the Dissolution Of The Monasteries ).
- The British Parliament votes "to offer a reward (£10,000 for any method capable of determining a ship's longitude within one degree; £15,000, within 40 minutes, and £20,000 within one half a degree) "for such person or persons as shall discover the Longitude ."
- 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 )
- --- 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 )
- --- 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 )
: ''See also .''
- 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 )
: ''See also .''
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