1714

Shôtoku 4 (正徳四年)

Timeline of 1714

• 1714/1/12 Ejima-Ikushima Affair - A power struggle over control of Ejima, a woman in the shogunal harem comes to a climax and spills over into a larger affair.

Other Events of 1714

• Two Ryukyuan embassies to Edo.

Births and Deaths

• 1714/8/14 Rôjû Akitomo Takatomo dies (b. 1649).
• 1714/8/27 Neo-Confucianist scholar Kaibara Ekken dies (b. 1630)
• 1714/9/10 Jôruri chanter Takemoto Gidayû dies (b. 1651).
• 1714/10/29 Ikeda Tsunamasa, daimyô of Okayama han, dies (b. 1638).
• 1714/11/2 Tairô Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu dies (b. 1658).
• 1714/11/25 Mathematician Arima Yoriyuki born (d. 1783).
• 1714/12/18 Future rôjû Matsudaira Takechika born (d. 1779).