1714
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Art and culture
- Prussia: witchcraft trials abolished, see Frederick William I's edict of 1714
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Literature
- A Night-Piece on Death by Thomas Parnell
- The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
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Fiction
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Non-fiction
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Visual art
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Music
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Architecture
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Births
- Pierre Honoré Robbe de Beauveset, French poet (d. 1792)
- Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)
- James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (d. 1758)
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (d. 1762)
- Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
- Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
- Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789)
- James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish philosopher and evolutionary thinker (d. 1799)
- William Shenstone, English poet (d. 1763)
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Deaths
- Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633)
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