1714

This page relates to the year 1714 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

Africa

  • Ahmed Bey makes independent of the Othoman and founds the Dynastie karamanli with Tripoli.
  • Mozambique: The Portuguese create a fort with Zombo, with the limit of navigation on the Zambezi.

Asia

  • Beginning of the reign of Taninganway Min of Burma (fine in 1733).
  • India: Treaty between Balaji Visvanath and the governor Moghol of the Dekkan: the domination Marathe extends on all Dekkan. In exchange Shahu must provide 15  000 riders in Moghols, to pay an annual tribute and to maintain the order.

  • the British create the Indian Medical Service , with an aim of looking after the soldiers and the British colonists in India.

The Middle East

Europe

  • the administration of the Morée by the Venetian ones becomes unbearable with the Greeks, who wish the return of the Turks. The Othoman declare the war with Venice (fine in 1718). Acquisitions of Venice in Aegean Sea fall back-to-back (1715).

France

  • February: Great masked ball with Seals at the Duchess of Maine.
  • February 15th: The Parlement of Paris records with restrictions (of Aguesseau) the Bulle Unigenitus.
  • March 5th: The Sorbonne accepts it with a strong majority the Bulle Unigenitus.
  • July 2nd: Voysin becomes Chancelier of France (fine in 1717).
  • July: Edict of Marly which, in the event of extinction of the legitimate princes of the house of Bourbon calls with the succession the legitimated princes.
  • August 2nd: Louis {{XIV}} sign its will which institutes a council of regency.
  • September: Visit with Versailles Frederic-Auguste, prince Electeur of Saxony.
  • December 30th: Annexation in France of the Valley of Ubaye.

Art & culture

See also: 1714 with the theater

  • the Philosopher and erudite German Wilhem Leibnitz writes in French his major work “ the Monadologie ”.
  • Iliade put in French worms, which starts again the Querelle of Old and Modern the.
  • Of the causes of the corruption of the taste of Anne Dacier.
  • Letter with the Academy of Fénelon.
  • the embourbée Car , parodic novel and surprising Effects of sympathy of Marivaux.
  • Mercurius Politicus , re-examined monthly of Daniel Defoe.

Science & technology

  • January 7th: Invention of the Typewriter by the British Henry Millet.
  • Longitude Act , law of the British Parliament offering a price of 20  000 pounds with that or that which would determine a simple and sure method on the open sea to allow the determination of the Longitude of a ship.
  • the German physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit builds his mercury thermometer.
  • Edmond Halley discovers the Amas of Hercules.
  • Amédée-François Frézier introduces in France a new variety of strawberry known as Blanche of Chile coming from Concepción (Chile).

Economy & company

  • Saint-Domingue produces 7000 tons of Sucre per annum.
  • 9 tons of gold of the Brésil arrive at Lisbon.
  • Tax on malt with Whiskey in Scotland.
  • New statute of the nobility in Russia: generalization of the pomiestié (fusion of the old genetic inheritance - votchina - and of the old benefit - pomiestié ). All the fields of the nobility from now on are granted, but they are hereditary and inalienable. Introduction of the rule of the single heir to the choices to the testator. The noble young person must obligatorily know to read and write to be able to marry. He cannot become officer without passing by the school of the soldier.

Births in 1714

Death in 1714

Easter Day

  • April 1st: Sunday of Easter.
  • For other religious holidays, to see Comput.

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