Events in the year
1714
Events
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.
* Feb ...
in
Norway.
Incumbents
*
Monarch:
Frederick IV
Births
*1 February –
Nicolaus Christian Friis Nicolaus Christian Friis (1 February 1714 – 22 May 1777) was a Norwegian priest and theologian.
Niels or Nicolai Friis was born at Lille-Fosen (now Kristiansund) in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Friis attended the Trondheim Cathedral School and ...
, priest and writer (died in
1777
Events
January–March
* January 2 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of the Assunpink Creek: American general George Washington's army repulses a British attack by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, in a second ...
).
See also
References
{{Year in Europe, 1714