In the year 1714, with the defeat of Battle of Isokyrö, Sweden loses for years all of Finland to Russia (Feb 19), the Parliament of Great Britain votes to offer a huge reward for anyone who discovers a method to determine a ship’s close to exact longitude (Jul), the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Republic of Venice (Dec 9), Stockholm County is founded - and all these fine people were born:
1714-0101 Giovanni Battista Mancini* singer/voice teacher/ author - Ascoli Piceno, Italy (1800/86)
1714-0106 Percivall Pott* surgeon/a founder of orthopaedics/the first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen - London, England (1788/74)
1714-0120 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle* sculptor - Paris, France (1785/71)
1714-0121 Anna Morandi Manzolini* anatomist/anatomical wax modeler - Bologna, Italy (1774/60)
1714-0202 Gottfried August Homilius* organist/ cantor/composer - Rosenthal, Electorate of Saxony (1785/71)
1714-0222 Sarah Osborn* Evangelical writer - London, England (1796/82)
1714-0322 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach* musician/composer/5th child of JSB - Weimar (1788/74)
1714-0401 Jean-François de Neufforge* architect/engraver- Comblain-au-Pont, Belgium (1791/77)
1714-0510 Sophie Charlotte Ackermann* (b Bierreichel) actress - Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (1792/78)
1714-0512 Johan Daniel Berlin* German-born Norwegian rococo composer /organist - Memel, Prussia (1787/73)
1714-0606 Joseph I of Portugal* King of Portugal - Ribeira Palace, Lisboa, Portugal (1777/62)
1714-0617 César-François Cassini de Thury* astronomer/cartographer - Thury-sous-Clermon, France (1784/70)
1714-0708 Pieter van Reede van Oudtshoorn* Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony in South Africa - Utrecht, the Netherlands (1773/58)
1714-0801 Edward Penny* portrait and historical painter - Knutsford, Cheshire, England (1791/77)
1714-0801 Richard Wilson* landscape painter - Penegoes, Montgomeryshire, Wales (1782/67)
1714-0804 Magdalena Wargentin* landowner/w German heritage- Turku, Sweden-Finland (1765/51)
1714-0917 Gottlieb Rabener* German writer of prose satires - Wachau, Holy Roman Empire (1771/56)
1714-0929 Petrus Albertus van der Parra* Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies - Colombo, Dutch Ceylon (1775/61)
1714-1001 Georg David Anthon* Danish architect - Northern Germany (1781/66)
1714-1016 Giovanni Arduino* Italian geologist - Caprino Veronese, Veneto (1795/80)
1714-1019 Joseph von Petrasch* German soldier/ philologist/writer - Slavonski Brod, Slavonia (1772/57)
1714-1031 Hedvig Taube* courtier/countess/royal mistress to the king of Sweden - Stockholm, Sweden (1744/39)
1714-1118 William Shenstone* poet/one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening - Halesowen, West Midlands, England (1763/48)
1714-1126 Mikael Groening* linguist/writer of Russian grammar - Vaasa, Sweden-Finland (1778/64)
1714-1215 Étienne Mignot de Montigny* engineer/geographer - Paris, France (1782/67)
1714-1227 George Whitefield* evangelist/preacher/active in America - Gloucester, Great Britain (1770/55)
Updated 24.8.2021
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