On this day: 14 March
Events, births and deaths on 14 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Alan Simpson
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Peter Maxwell Davies
- Deaths · John W. Cahn
100 years ago1926
- Events · El Virilla train accident
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 968 · Deaths · Matilda of Ringelheim
- 1074 · Events · Battle of Mogyoród
Events · 16
- 1074Battle of Mogyoród — 1074 battle
- 1590Battle of Ivry — 1590 battle
- 1593Siege of Haengju — 1593 siege
- 1647Truce of Ulm — Peace treaty signed in Ulm (14 March 1647) between France, Sweden, and Bavaria
- 1920Schleswig plebiscite — 1920 plebiscite used to determine the border between Denmark and Germany due to Treaty of Versailles.
- 1926El Virilla train accident — train wreck in Virilla River Canyon, Costa Rica
- 1939Slovak Republic — 1939–1945 client state of Nazi Germany
- 19611961 Yuba City B-52 crash — aircraft carrying nuclear weapons on patrol became disabled and then ran out of fuel
- 1972Sterling Airways Flight 296 — aviation accident in Dubai on 14 Mar. 1972
- 1978South Lebanon conflict — 1978 war between Israel and Lebanon and the PLO
- 1980LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 — 1980 Polish aviation accident
- 1988Johnson South Reef skirmish — 1988 naval battle that took place between Chinese and Vietnamese forces
- 2005Anti-Secession Law — law of the People's Republic of China (PRC), formalising the long-standing policy of the PRC to use "non-peaceful means" against the "Taiwan independence movement" in the event of a declaration of independence
- 20062006 Chadian coup d'état attempt — failed attempt to overthrow President of Chad Idriss Déby
- 2006Operation Bringing Home the Goods — Israeli military operation in the West Bank
- 2021Hlaingthaya massacre — 2021 massacre in Yangon, Myanmar
Births · 60
- 1681(Julian date)Georg Philipp Telemann — German composer
- 1801Kristjan Jaak Peterson — Estonian writer (1801-1822)
- 1804Johann Strauss I — Austrian Romantic composer
- 1807Josephine of Leuchtenberg — Queen of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to 1859
- 1820Victor Emmanuel II of Italy — King of Sardinia (1849–1861) and King of Italy (1861–1878)
- 1822Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies — Princess of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and Empress of the Empire of Brazil (1822-1889)
- 1823Théodore de Banville — French writer (1823-1891)
- 1835Giovanni Schiaparelli — Italian astronomer and science historian (1835-1910)
- 1844Umberto I of Italy — king of Italy (1844-1900)
- 1853Ferdinand Hodler — Swiss artist (1853–1918)
- 1854Paul Ehrlich — Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
- 1854Thomas R. Marshall — vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921
- 1854Alexandru Macedonski — Wallachian-born Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic (1854-1920)
- 1862Vilhelm Bjerknes — Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (*1862 – †1951)
- 1869Algernon Blackwood — English short story writer and novelist (1869–1951)
- 1879
- 1882Wacław Sierpiński — Polish mathematician
- 1886Firmin Lambot — Belgian cyclist (1886–1964)
- 1903Mustafa Barzani — Kurdish nationalist (1903–1979)
- 1905Raymond Aron — French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist (1905–1983)
- 1908Maurice Merleau-Ponty — French phenomenological philosopher
- 1911Akira Yoshizawa — Japanese origamist (1911-2005)
- 1923Diane Arbus — American photographer (1923–1971)
- 1928Frank Borman — American astronaut (1928–2023)
- 1932Naina Yeltsina — former First Lady of Russia
Deaths · 60
- 313(Julian date)Emperor Huai of Jin — 3rd emperor of the Jin Dynasty (265–420)
- 840(Julian date)Einhard — Frankish scholar and courtier (c. 775 – 840)
- 968(Julian date)Matilda of Ringelheim — German queen consort and duchess consort of Saxony (895-968)
- 1471(Julian date)Thomas Malory — English writer, author of Le Morte d'Arthur (1405–1471)
- 1555(Julian date)John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford — English royal minister in the Tudor era (1485-1554)
- 1632Tokugawa Hidetada — The second shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1579–1632)
- 1647Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau — prince of Orange and stadtholder of Holland (1584-1647)
- 1696Jean Domat — French jurist
- 1748George Wade — British Field Marshal (1673-1748)
- 1757John Byng — Royal Navy officer, shot for failure in combat (1704-1757)
- 1791Johann Salomo Semler — German theologian (1725-1791)
- 1803Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock — German poet, writer and linguist
- 1805Ji Yun — Chinese Qing dynasty scholar (1724-1805)
- 1811Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton — British noble (1735-1811)
- 1823Charles François Dumouriez — French general (1739–1823)
- 1823John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent — Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (1735-1823)
- 1860Carl Ritter von Ghega — Austrian railway designer (1802–1860)
- 1877Juan Manuel de Rosas meow — Argentine politician (1793-1877)
- 1883Karl Marx — German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
- 1884Quintino Sella — Italian statesman and financier (1827-1884)
- 1932George Eastman — American entrepreneur, inventor and photographer (1854–1932)
- 1932Frederick Jackson Turner — American historian (1861-1932)
- 1939Masabumi Hosono — Japanese Meiji-era official and the sole Japanese passenger on the RMS Titanic (1870–1939)
- 1953Klement Gottwald — 5th President of Czechoslovakia
- 1965Marion Jones Farquhar — American tennis player (1879–1965)
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