SomeFacts | May 14

On this day - May 14

1027 — Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of ...

1097 — The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.

1264 — Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced ...

1465 — During the 1465 Moroccan revolution which overthrows the ...

1509 — Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat ...

1607 — English colonists establish "James Fort", which ...

1608 — The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states, ...

1610 — Henry IV of France is assassinated by Catholic zealot François ...

1747 — War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral ...

1796 — Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.

1800 — The 6th United States Congress recesses, and the process of ...

1804 — William Clark and 42 men depart from Camp Dubois to join ...

1811 — Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José ...

1832 — The Battle of Stillman's Run, the first battle of the ...

1836 — The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.

1842 — The first edition of The Illustrated London News, the ...

1857 — Mindon Min was crowned as King of Burma in Mandalay, Burma.

1863 — American Civil War: During the Vicksburg campaign, Union ...

1868 — Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former ...

1870 — The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson ...

1878 — The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in ...

1879 — The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in ...

1900 — Opening of World Amateur championship at the Paris Exposition ...

1913 — Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for ...

1915 — The May 14 Revolt takes place in Lisbon, Portugal.

1918 — Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, inaugurates the Two-minute ...

1925 — Mrs Dalloway, one of Virginia Woolf's earliest and ...

1931 — Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as ...

1935 — The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular ...

1939 — Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical ...

1940 — World War II: Rotterdam, Netherlands is bombed by the ...

1943 — World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the ...

1948 — Israel is declared to be an independent state and a ...

1951 — Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time ...

1953 — Approximately 7,100 brewery workers in Milwaukee perform a ...

1955 — Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet ...

1961 — Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom ...

1970 — Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun ...

1973 — Skylab, the United States' first space station, is ...

1977 — A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on ...

1980 — Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in ...

1987 — Fijian Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra is ousted from power in a ...

1988 — Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong ...

2004 — Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4815 crashes into the Amazon ...

2004 — Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Mary Donaldson are ...

2004 — The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the ...

2008 — Battle of Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre between ...

2010 — Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on the STS-132 mission to ...

2012 — Agni Air Flight CHT crashes in Nepal after a failed go-around, ...

2021 — China successfully lands Zhurong, the country's first ...

2022 — Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.