Editing 1714 (section)

== Events ==
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===January–March===
* [[January 21]] – After being tricked into deserting a battle against India's [[Mughal Empire]] by the rebel [[Sayyid brothers]], Prince [[Azz-ud-din Mirza]] is blinded on orders of the Emperor [[Farrukhsiyar]] as punishment.
* [[February 7]] – The [[Siege of Tönning]] (a fortress of the [[Swedish Empire]] and now located in Germany in the state of [[Schleswig-Holstein]]) ends after almost a year, as Danish forces force the surrender of the remaining 1,600 defenders.  The fortress is then leveled by the Danes.  
* [[February 28]] – (February 17 old style) Russia's Tsar [[Peter the Great]] issues a decree requiring compulsory education in mathematics for children of government officials and nobility, applying to children between the ages of 10 and 15 years old.<ref>Basil Dmytryshyn, ''Modernization of Russia Under Peter I and Catherine II'' (Wiley, 1974) pp. 10-11</ref>
* [[March 2]] – (February 19 old style) The [[Battle of Napue|Battle of Storkyro]] is fought between troops of the Swedish Empire and the Russian Empire, near what is now the village of Napue in [[Finland]].  The outnumbered Swedish forces, under the command of General [[Carl Gustaf Armfeldt]], suffer 1,600 troops killed in action while the Russians led by General [[Mikhail Golitsyn]] lose 400 men.
* [[March 7]] – The [[Treaty of Rastatt]] is signed between [[Austria]] and [[France]], concluding the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] between them. Austria receives the Spanish territories in Italy (the [[Kingdom of Naples]], [[Duchy of Milan]] and [[Kingdom of Sardinia]]), as well as the [[Spanish Netherlands|Southern Netherlands]]; and from France, [[Freiburg]] and [[Landau]]. The Austrian [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburg Empire]] reaches its largest territorial extent yet, with [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor]] succeeding [[Philip V of Spain]], as ruler in the ceded territories.

===April–June===
* [[April 11]] – France signs five separate treaties— with Great Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Prussia and Savoy— to end hostilities in the War of the Spanish Succession following the negotiations of the [[Peace of Utrecht]].
* [[April 12]] – Italian Jesuit missionary [[Niccolò Gianpriamo]] is dispatched from [[Portugal]] on an evangelical trip to Asia starting with the Portuguese Indian colony of [[Goa]], where he arrives after five months.
* [[May 19]] – [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]], refuses to allow members of the [[House of Hanover]] to settle in Britain during her lifetime.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=208–209|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[May 20]] – [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] leads the first performance of his cantata for Pentecost, [[Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172|''Erschallet, ihr Lieder'', BWV 172]], at the chapel of [[Schloss Weimar]].
* [[June 3]] – The city of [[Kassel]] in [[Germany]] inaugurates the summer tradition of the "water stairs" or "great cascades" (''Grossen Kaskaden'') emptying from the base of the [[Hercules monument (Kassel)|Hercules monument]] down to the Wilhelmshöhe castle.
* [[June 20]] – In France, [[Henri-Charles du Cambout de Coislin]], the Roman Catholic Bishop of Metz, condemns the papal bull ''[[Unigenitus]]'', issued by [[Pope Clement XI]] against the 1671 commentary by [[Pasquier Quesnel]] of the four Gospels and inflaming the [[Jansenism|Jansenist]] controversy.
* [[June 26]] – Spain and the Netherlands sign a peace treaty to end hostilities between those two nations in the War of the Spanish Succession.

===July–September===
* [[July 8]] – [[Longitude prize]]: The [[Parliament of Great Britain]] votes "to offer a reward for such person or persons as shall discover the [[Longitude]]" (£10,000 for any method capable of determining a ship's longitude within 1 degree; £15,000, within 40 minutes, and £20,000 within ½ a degree).<ref>{{cite web|title=Origins of the Longitude Prize|url=https://longitudeprize.org/the-history/|work=Longitude Prize|accessdate=2021-09-29}}</ref>
* [[July 27]] – The [[Imperial Russian Navy]] gains its first important victory against the [[Swedish Navy]] in the [[Battle of Gangut]].
* [[August 1]] – [[George I of Great Britain|Georg Ludwig von Braunschweig-Lüneburg]], Elector of [[Hanover]], becomes King [[George I of Great Britain]] and Ireland, on the death of [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]]. Anne's death brings an end to the reign of the [[House of Stuart]], in that her half-brother [[James Francis Edward Stuart]], the eldest son of [[James II of England]], has been ineligible for the British throne based on the [[Act of Settlement 1701]] had barred members of the [[Roman Catholic church]] from becoming monarchs. George of Hanover, as great-grandson of James I of England and a second cousin to Anne, is deemed the eldest living Protestant descendant of James I.
* [[September 11]] – [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: [[Barcelona]] is taken after a [[Siege of Barcelona (1713–14)|year's siege]], and [[Catalonia]] surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies.
* [[September 18]] – [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], the new King of Great Britain and Ireland, arrives in Britain for the first time in his life, after having departed [[Hannover]] and sailing from the Netherlands.<ref name=Weir>{{cite book|authorlink=Alison Weir|first=Alison|last=Weir|title=Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy|publisher=Random House|year=1996|pages=272–276}}</ref>
* [[September 29]] – [[The Great Hatred]]: the [[Cossacks]] of the [[Russian Empire]] kill about 800 people overnight on the Finnish island of [[Hailuoto]].<ref>{{cite news | last = Kaitasuo | first = Pia | title = Pietari Suuren synkkä tuhon kylvö | work = [[Kaleva (newspaper)|Kaleva]] | date = 2015-08-15 | number = 221 | page =  | pages = 34–35 | location = Oulu | publisher = Kaleva Oy | issn= 0356-1356 | language = fi}}</ref>

===October–December===
* [[October 20]] – The [[coronation]] of [[George I of Great Britain and Ireland]] takes place in [[Westminster Abbey]], a little less than three months after George became the new British monarch.<ref name=Weir/>
* [[October 24]] – Four Dutch investors, led by brothers Nicolaas and Hendrik van Hoorn, purchase the South American colony of [[Berbice]] from French mercenary [[Jacques Cassard]], who had captured the colony from the Van Peere family.<ref>J. J. Hartsinck, ''Beschryving van Guiana, of de wilde kust in Zuid-America'' (Gerrit Tielenburg, 1770)</ref>  A century later, in 1815, the land is ceded to Great Britain and later merged with neighboring colonies to form what is now [[Guyana]].
* [[November 30]] – King [[Philip V of Spain]] issues a decree reorganizing the [[Spanish government]] to create four ministries, with the Secretary of State being the chief minister, predecessor to the office of [[Prime Minister of Spain]].  [[José de Grimaldo]] becomes the first  person to have the chief ministry.
* [[December 9]] – [[Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718)]]: The [[Ottoman Empire]] declares war on the [[Republic of Venice]].

===Date unknown===
* [[Archbishop Tenison's Church of England High School, Croydon|Archbishop Tenison's School]], the world's earliest surviving mixed gender school, is established by [[Thomas Tenison]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], in [[Croydon]], south of London, England.
* [[Louis Juchereau de St. Denis]] establishes Fort St. Jean Baptiste, at the site of present day [[Natchitoches, Louisiana]] (the first permanent European settlement in the [[Louisiana Territory]], after [[Biloxi]] ([[1699]]) and [[Mobile, Alabama]] ([[1702]]) were separated).
* [[Worcester College, Oxford|Worcester College]], [[University of Oxford]] is founded (formerly [[Gloucester College]], closed during the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]]).
* [[Stockholm County]] is founded.
* The river [[Kander (Switzerland)]] is redirected into [[Lake Thun]].
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