Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1714

Literature

• John Gay, The Shepherd's Week, The Fan
• John Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees
• Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock in five cantos
• Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath
• Richard Steele, The Ladies' Library, The Crisis
• February: Richard Steele's The Guardian ends publication
• Edward Young, The Force of Religion

Theatre

• Susanna Centlivre, The Wonder!, A Woman Keeps a Secret
• Nicholas Rowe, Jane Shore
• Lewis Theobald, Electra

Art

• Sir James Thornhill begins the painting of the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral (finished 1719)

Music

Science, Technology, & Medicine

• Gabriel Fahrenheit of Germany invents a mercury thermometer with a temperature scale
• Dominique Anel invents the first fine-point syringe

Politics & Law

• 1 August: Death of Anne, accession of George I. Whigs control Parliament
• Richard Steele expelled from Parliament
• The Schism Act
• Townshend and Stanhope are Secretaries of State
• Walpole is made Paymaster General
• Pulteney becomes Secretary at War
• Jonathan Swift, The Public Spirit of the Whigs
• France and the Holy Roman Empire sign the Peace of Rastatt

Philosophy & Theology

• Leibniz, Monadology
• John Locke, Works (posthumous)

Milestones

• Death of Queen Anne
• Birth of C. P. E. Bach, composer
• Birth of Gluck, composer
• Birth of James Hervey
• Birth of William Shenstone
• Birth of George Whitefield

Miscellaneous

• Tea is first introduced into the American colonies