Births on January 14

Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (d. 1745)

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (14 January 1684 – 19 December 1745) was a French subject and portrait painter.

10 Dec

De motu corporum in gyrum
Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.