History
1714
General
Population: 669 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include John Gay (pastoral) Nicholas Rowe (stage edition of Shakespeare), Gottfried Arnold, Justus Bohmer, Leibniz
- Medicine: Dominique Anel invents fine-pointed syringe for surgical purposes
- Technology: Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit constructs mercury thermometer with temperature scale
First typewriter invented
- Deaths: Queen Anne of England, Architect Andreas Schluter
Africa
- Libya: Tripoli becomes independent of Turkey (Ottoman Empire) as Tripolitania
- Mauritius: France captures island
Americas
- General: Spanish office of American Trade transferred from Seville to Cadiz
Europe
- General: Peace of Rastatt between France and HRE
Treaty of Rastatt and Badan clarifies Spanish succession conflict over lands – Netherlands go to Austria and a Dutch border set
- Finland: Battle of Storkyro establish Russian domination of Finland
- France: Peace of Baden – France keeps Strasbourg and Alsace
Boffrand creates Hotel de Torcy at Paris
- German States: Witch trials abolished in Prussia
- Great Britain: Marlborough reinstated
Death of Anne of England (last Stuart) – cousin George (Gay-org originally) Ludvig I rules as George I of England - he is 52nd in line and older – advisors are German – start of Hanoverian rule – and many supporters are Tory
Worcester college at Oxford founded
Thomas Archer creates St. John's in London
James Gibbs creates St. Mary-le-Strand in London
Parliament with Whig majority led by Charles Townshend and Robert Walpole
- Italian States: End if Italy's Duchy of Savoy
- Russia: Russia conquers Finland after victory at battle of Storkyro
- Spain: End of Spanish War of Succession with Treaty of Utrecht
Philip V of Spain marries Elizabeth Farnese
- Sweden: Charles XII of Sweden ends Turkish captivity and arrives at Stralsund