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1689–1724UK [horse-racing]The Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arab, the horses from which all modern thoroughbreds are descended in the male line, are imported to England from the Middle East and north Africa.
1714UK [earth sciences]An act of Parliament establishes a Board of Longitude in Britain, with the aim of finding a solution to the establishment of longitude at sea. A £20,000 prize is offered for an accurate method.
7 March 1714France, Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Bavaria, Spanish Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire, Germany [treaties]The Peace of Rastatt is agreed between King Louis XIV of France and Charles VI, the Holy Roman Emperor, by which France recognizes the Habsburg possessions in Italy, the electors of Bavaria and Cologne are restored, and the Habsburg Monarchy takes possession of the Spanish Netherlands.
1 August 1714Britain, Hanover, Germany, Holy Roman Empire [administration]Following the death of Queen Anne of England, she is succeeded by George Ludwig, elector of Hanover and great-grandson of James I of England, as George I (the electress Sophia having died on 8 June).
1 August 1714Britain [births and deaths]Queen Anne, last Stuart monarch of Great Britain and Ireland 1702–14, dies in London, England (49).


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This was the accession of the Elector of Hanover to the throne of England, in 1714, on the death of Queen Anne.
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Queen Anne died, and King George became a king in 1714, the Whigs returned to power, Steele again received a Government post, again he sat in Parliament, and a few months later he was knighted, and became Sir Richard Steele.
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On the death of Anne in 1714 Bolingbroke, with other Tories, was intriguing for a second restoration of the Stuarts in the person of the son of James II (the 'Old Pretender').
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