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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1714
1714 in Great Britain:
Other years
Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Events from the year 1714 in Great Britain . This marks the beginning of the
Georgian era .
Incumbents
Events
King George c.1714, by
Sir Godfrey Kneller
2 February –
Nicholas Rowe 's tragedy
Jane Shore premieres at the
Drury Lane Theatre in
London and is a popular success.
March – the
Scriblerus Club , an informal group of literary friends, is formed by
Jonathan Swift ,
Alexander Pope ,
John Gay ,
John Arbuthnot (at whose
London house they meet),
Thomas Parnell ,
Henry St. John and
Robert Harley .
[1]
25 March –
Archbishop Tenison's School , the world's earliest surviving mixed gender school, is endowed by
Thomas Tenison ,
Archbishop of Canterbury , in
Croydon .
14 April –
Queen Anne performs the last
touching for the "
King's evil ".
[2]
19 May –
Queen Anne refuses to allow members of the
House of Hanover to settle in Britain during her lifetime.
[3]
July – first
Roman Catholic
seminary in Britain opens at Eilean Bàn on
Loch Morar in Scotland.
[4]
8 July – by the
Longitude Act ,
Parliament establishes the
Board of Longitude and offers substantial monetary
longitude rewards to anyone who can solve the problem of accurately determining a ship's
longitude .
27 July –
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer , is dismissed as
Lord High Treasurer .
[5]
29 July –
Worcester College, Oxford , is founded under the will of
Sir Thomas Cookes of Worcestershire on the site of
Gloucester College , closed during the
Dissolution of the Monasteries .
30 July –
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury , becomes the new Lord High Treasurer.
1 August
18 September – King George arrives in Britain for the first time, landing at
Greenwich .
[3]
20 October –
coronation of King George I
[3] at
Westminster Abbey , giving rise to
Coronation riots in over twenty towns in England.
[6]
Births
6 January –
Percivall Pott , surgeon (died
1788 )
25 February –
Hyde Parker , admiral (died
1782 )
26 February –
James Hervey , clergyman and writer (died
1758 )
7 April –
John Elwes , né Meggot, miser and politician (died
1789 )
14 April –
Adam Gib , religious leader (died
1788 )
3 June –
John Conder , Independent English minister at Cambridge (later President of the Independent College) (died
1781 )
1 August –
Richard Wilson , painter (died
1782 )
[7]
3 August –
William Cole , antiquary (died
1782 )
25 October –
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo , philosopher and evolutionary thinker (died
1799 )
13 November –
William Shenstone , English poet (died
1763 )
date unknown –
Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven , politician (died
1778 )
Deaths
2 February –
John Sharp, Archbishop of York (born
1643 )
24 February –
Edmund Andros , governor in North America (born
1637 )
1 March –
Thomas Ellwood , religious writer (born
1639 )
15 May –
Roger Elliott , general and Governor of Gibraltar (born c.
1665 )
8 June – Electress
Sophia of Hanover , heir to the throne (born 1630)
22 June –
Matthew Henry , non-conformist minister (born
1662 )
1 August –
Queen Anne (born
1665 )
26 August –
Edward Fowler , Bishop of Gloucester (born
1632 )
1 November –
John Radcliffe , physician (born
1650 )
Robert Ferguson , Presbyterian minister, plotter and pamphleteer (born c.1637 in Scotland)
See also
References
^ Rumbold, Valerie (2009).
"Scriblerus Club (act. 1714)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. Retrieved 4 February 2011 . (subscription or
UK public library membership required)
^ Werrett, Simon (2000). "Healing the Nation's Wounds: Royal Ritual and Experimental Philosophy in Restoration England". History of Science . 38 : 377–99.
Bibcode :
2000HisSc..38..377W .
^
a
b
c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 208–209.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^
"The Story of Eilean Ban" . RC Diocese of Argyll & the Isles. 5 August 2014. Archived from
the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016 .
^
a
b Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
294 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^ Monod, Paul Kleber (1993). Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788 . Cambridge University Press. pp. 173–178.
^
Lee, Sidney , ed. (1900).
"Wilson, Richard" .
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 62. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 120–23.