This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1714.
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.
July 4 – Death of scholar Antonio Magliabechi; he bequeaths his personal library to his patron Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, to serve as a public library for the city of Florence, foundation of the National Central Library.
July 27 – Robert Harley is dismissed as Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain.
August 1 – George, elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain following the death of Queen Anne. This places many writers in opposition to the new Whig ministry and brings about the rise of Robert Walpole and indictment of Henry St. John.
Samuel Garth, poet and royal physician, is knighted by King George I of Great Britain.
Esther Vanhomrigh pursues Jonathan Swift to Ireland.
Moses ben Avraham Avinu is imprisoned in Halle for printing Hebrew texts with supposedly anti-Christian content, but escapes to Amsterdam
Anonymous
A Compleat Key to The Dispensary (in response to Samuel Garth's 1699 poem)
The Court of Atalantis (attrib. to Delarivier Manley, but possibly John Oldmixon or others)
The Ladies Tale (stories)
The Ladies Library (ed. Richard Steele)
John Arbuthnot
A Continuation of the History of the Crown-Inn
A Postscript to John Bull
Anne Dacier – Des Causes de la corruption du goût (On the Causes of the Corruption of Taste, in defence of Homer)
Daniel Defoe – A Secret History of the White-Staff (reporting allegations against Harley)
William Diaper – An Imitation of the Seventeenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace
Thomas Ellwood – The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood
Laurence Eusden – A Letter to Mr Addison, on the King's Accession to the Throne
Abel Evans – Prae-existence: A poem, in imitation of Milton
Sir John Fortescue – The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy (written c.1473)
John Gay – The Shepherd's Week
Charles Gildon – A New Rehearsal (an attack on Pope, et al.)
Anthony Hamilton – Memoirs of the Life of the Count de Grammont (transl. Abel Boyer)
Samuel Jones – Poetical Miscellanies on Several Occasions
William King et al. – The Persian and the Turkish Tales, Compleat
Gottfried Leibniz – La Monadologie
John Locke – The Works of John Locke (posthumous)
Bernard de Mandeville – The Fable of the Bees
Delarivier Manley – The Adventures of Rivella; or, The History of the Author of the Atalantis (quasi-autobiography)
Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock
Nicholas Rowe – Poems on Several Occasions
William Shakespeare – The Works of Mr William Shakespear (ed. Nicholas Rowe, 3rd edition)
"Captain" Alexander Smith – The History of the Lives of the Most Noted Highway-men, Foot-pads, House-breakers, Shop-lifts, and Cheats...
Richard Steele
The Crisis
The Englishman (collection and end of the periodical)
The Lover (periodical)
Mr Steele's Apology for Himself and his Writings
Poetical Miscellanies (with contributions from Pope, Thomas Parnell, John Gay, Thomas Warton, Edward Young, and others)
The Public Spirit of the Tories (attrib.: response to Swift)
The Reader (periodical)
Jonathan Swift
The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphras'd
The Public Spirit of the Whigs
Ned Ward – The Field-Spy
Edward Young – The Force of Religion
Susanna Centlivre – The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret
Robert Hunter – Androboros
Charles Johnson – The Victim
Nicholas Rowe – The Tragedy of Jane Shore
January 1 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Prussian Lithuanian poet (died 1780)
February 26 – James Hervey, English writer (died 1758)
April 14 – Adam Gib, Scottish theologian (died 1788)
May 6 – James Townley, English dramatist (died 1778)
November 13 – William Shenstone, English poet (died 1763)
December 16 (December 27 New Style) – George Whitefield, English preacher in American colonies (died 1770)
December – Jane Collier, English novelist (died 1755)
Unknown dates
Anica Bošković, Ragusan writer (died 1804)
James Parker, American printer and publisher (died 1770)
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, French actress and dramatist (died 1792)
January 17 – Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo, Spanish royal librarian and poet (born 1662)
March 3 – Hans Carl von Carlowitz, German administrator and writer on forestry (born 1645)
June 22 – Matthew Henry, Welsh Biblical commentator (born 1662)
June 28 – Daniel Papebroch, Flemish Jesuit hagiographer (born 1628)
July 4 – Antonio Magliabechi, Italian scholar and librarian (born 1633)
October 18 – Takemoto Gidayū (竹本 義太夫), Japanese jōruri chanter and playwright (born 1651)
November 7 – Charles Davenant, English economist (born 1656)
December 15 – Silvester Jenks, English Catholic theologian and philosopher (born 1656)
July 20 – The fictional event narrated in Thornton Wilder's novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) takes place.
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