On this day: 14 January
Events, births and deaths on 14 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Tony Slattery
- Deaths · Arthur Blessitt
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Alan Rickman
- Events · 2016 Jakarta attacks
- Deaths · René Angélil
100 years ago1926
- Births · Tom Tryon
- Births · Frank Aletter
- Births · Warren Mitchell
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1092 · Deaths · Vratislaus II of Bohemia
- 973 · Deaths · Ekkehard I
Events · 19
- 1761Third Battle of Panipat — 1761 battle in India between the Durrani and Maratha empires
- 1784Ratification Day — Day the peace Treaty of Paris between the United States of America and Kingdom of Great Britain was in effect
- 1797Battle of Rivoli — 1797 battle during the War of the First Coalition
- 1814Treaty of Kiel — 1814 peace treaty between the UK plus Sweden, and Denmark–Norway
- 19071907 Kingston earthquake — earthquake struck Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica on January 14, 1907 (UTC)
- 1943Casablanca Conference — 1943 conference for the Allied powers to plan for the next phase of World War II
- 1943Operation Ke — 1943 Japanese withdrawal from Guadalcanal in WWII
- 1951National Airlines Flight 83 — 1951 aviation accident
- 1952Today — American morning television program broadcast on NBC
- 1960Reserve Bank of Australia — central bank of Australia
- 1966Operation Crimp — 1966 military operation
- 1967Human Be-In — 1967 countercultural gathering in San Francisco, California
- 1969USS Enterprise fire — 1969 fire on a US aircraft carrier
- 1993MS Jan Heweliusz disaster — sinking of the Polish ferry on the Baltic Sea, near coast of German isle of Rügen
- 20162016 Jakarta attacks — terrorist attacks in Indonesia
- 2018Minneapolis Miracle — American football playoff game between the Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints on January 14, 2018, and specifically its final play
- 20192019 Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crash — aviation accident
- 2024Abdication of Margrethe II — renunciation of the Danish throne
- 20262026 Sikhio train disaster — rail accident in Thailand
Births · 60
- 83 BCE(Julian date)Mark Antony — Roman politician and general (83 BC – 30 BC)
- 771(Julian date)Konstantinos VI — Byzantine Emperor (771-802)
- 1131Valdemar I of Denmark — King of Denmark
- 1273(Julian date)Joan I of Navarre — queen regnant of Navarre and queen consort of France
- 1507(Julian date)Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal — queen consort and regent of Portugal
- 1551(Julian date)Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak — Grand vizier of Mughal emperor Akbar from 1579 to 1602
- 1702Nakamikado — emperor of Japan
- 1705Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier — French explorer
- 1741Benedict Arnold — army officer who betrayed America to the British during the Revolutionary War (1740–1801)
- 1798Johan Rudolph Thorbecke — Dutch statesman (1798-1872)
- 1818Zachris Topelius — Finnish-Swedish author, poet, historian, professor and rector of Helsinki University (1818–1898)
- 1836Henri Fantin-Latour — French painter and printmaker (1836-1904)
- 1841Berthe Morisot — French painter (1841-1895)
- 1850Pierre Loti — French writer (1850-1923)
- 1861Mehmed VI — 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1918–1922)
- 1875Albert Schweitzer — French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)
- 1886Hugh Lofting — British author (1886–1947)
- 1887Hugo Steinhaus — Polish mathematician (1887–1972)
- 1892Martin Niemöller — German theologian (1892–1984)
- 1896John Dos Passos — American novelist (1896–1970)
- 1897Hasso von Manteuffel — German general and politician (1897-1978)
- 1901Alfred Tarski — Polish-American logician (1901-1983)
- 1905Takeo Fukuda — Prime Minister of Japan from 1976 to 1978
- 1909Joseph Losey — American filmmaker and theatre director (1909–1984)
- 1914Harold Russell — film and television actor (1914-2002)
Deaths · 60
- 1092(Julian date)Vratislaus II of Bohemia — Duke and king of Bohemia from 1061 to 1092
- 1163(Julian date)Ladislaus II of Hungary — King of Croatia and Hungary (1131-1163)
- 1224Emperor Xuanzong of Jin — emperor of the Jin Dynasty (1115–1234)
- 1235(Julian date)Saint Sava — first archbishop of Serbs
- 1301(Julian date)Andrew III of Hungary — King of Hungary and Croatia between 1290 and 1301
- 1331(Julian date)Odoric of Pordenone — 14th-century Italian Franciscan friar, missionary, and explorer
- 1648Caspar Barlaeus — Dutch polymath (1584-1648)
- 1676Francesco Cavalli — Italian composer (1602–1676)
- 1679Jacques de Billy — French mathematician (1602-1679)
- 1701Tokugawa Mitsukuni — daimyo of the early Edo period; 2nd lord of Mito (1628-1701)
- 1753George Berkeley — Irish idealist philosopher and Anglican bishop (1685–1753)
- 1766Frederick V of Denmark — king of Denmark and Norway
- 1867Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres — French painter (1780–1867)
- 1874Johann Philipp Reis — German scientist and inventor (1834–1874)
- 1888Stephen Heller — Classical pianist and composer (1813–1888)
- 1892Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale — British prince (1864-1892); eldest child of the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra
- 1898Lewis Carroll — British author and scholar (1832–1898)
- 1901Charles Hermite — French mathematician (1822-1901)
- 1901Mandell Creighton — English historian and clergyman (1843–1901); bishop of the Church of England from 1897 to 1901
- 1905Ernst Abbe — German physicist (1840-1905)
- 1908Holger Drachmann — Poet and painter (1846-1908)
- 1937Jaishankar Prasad — Indian poet, dramatist, and novelist of modern Hindi literature (1889–1937)
- 1944Hàm Nghi — Vietnamese emperor (1871-1944)
- 1944Mehmet Emin Yurdakul — Turkish poet (1869–1944)
- 1949Harry Stack Sullivan — American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (1892-1949)
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