Deaths on December 14

Thomas Tanner, English bishop and historian (b. 1674)

Thomas Tanner (24 January 1674 – 14 December 1735) was an English antiquary and prelate. He was Bishop of St Asaph from 1732 to 1735.

8 Jan

Ariodante
Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
11 Jul

Pluto
Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
5 Aug

John Peter Zenger
Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.