Events from the year 1714 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Charles XII
Events
9 February - Russian victory at the Battle of Storkyro. As a result, all of Finland fell under Russian military occupation for the rest of the war, a seven-year period of hardship known in Finland as the Great Wrath. 7 August - Battle of Gangut - Creation of the Stockholm County.
- The Anna Jöransdotter case.
Births
9 January - Elisabeth Stierncrona, writer (died 1769)
21 April - Anna Maria Hilfeling, miniaturist (died 1783)
31 October - Hedvig Taube, royal mistress (died 1744) 25 December - Israel Acrelius, priest (died 1800)
Deaths
17 April – Haquin Spegel, author and hymn writer (born 1645) 19 April – Cornelius Anckarstierna, admiral (born 1655)
– Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock, courtier (born 1658)
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