On this day: 14 April

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Events · 27

• 43 BCE
  Battle of Forum Gallorum — battle
• 69(Julian date)
  Battles of Bedriacum — two Roman battles in 69 AD
• 966(Julian date)
  Christianization of Poland — history of the spread of Christianity in Poland
• 1205(Julian date)
  Battle of Adrianople — part of the Fourth Crusade, in which the Bulgarians defeated the Crusaders
• 1471
  Battle of Barnet — 1471 engagement in the Wars of the Roses
• 1619
  Battle of Sarhu — battle between Ming and Later Jin (predecessor of the Qing dynasty) in 1619
• 1639
  Battle of Chemnitz — 1639 battle of the thirty years' war
• 1816
  Bussa's rebellion — slave rebellion in Barbados
• 1895
  1895 Ljubljana earthquake — seismic event in Slovenia
• 1900
  Exposition Universelle of 1900 — World's Fair held in Paris, France
• 1912
  sinking of the RMS Titanic — maritime disaster in the North Atlantic Ocean on the night of 14–15 April 1912
• 1929
  1929 Monaco Grand Prix — motor car race
• 1931
  Second Spanish Republic — political regime established in Spain between April 14, 1931 and April 1, 1939
• 1931
  Catalan Republic (1931) — April 1931 short-lived state on the Iberian Peninsula
• 1935
  Black Sunday — The world's largest dust storm ever
• 1945
  Razing of Friesoythe — demolition of the German town of Friesoythe by Canadian Forces during WW2
• 1978
  1978 Georgian demonstrations — 1978 protests in Tbilisi, Georgia
• 1988
  Genuuva Accords — agreement that ended Afghan-Soviet war and Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
• 1991
  President of Georgia — public office of the head of state and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Forces of Georgia
• 1994
  1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident — 1994 US friendly fire incident over Iraq
• 1997
  Murder of Pai Hsiao-yen — Murder in Taiwan
• 2001
  2001 Ramna Batamul bombings — mass murder in Dhaka, Bangladesh
• 2014
  Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping — kidnapping of female students in Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria
• 2014
  April 2014 Abuja bombing — attack in Nigeria
• 2016
  2016 Kumamoto earthquakes — natural disaster in Japan
• 2018
  April 2018 missile strikes against Syria — military strikes by US, UK, France against government sites in Syria
• 2022
  sinking of the Moskva — 14 April 2022 wrecking of a Russian ship during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Births · 60

• 1126(Julian date)
  Averroes — Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
• 1204(Julian date)
  Henry I of Castile — King of Castile
• 1527(Julian date)
  Abraham Ortelius — Flemish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer (1527–1598)
• 1578(Julian date)
  Philip III of Spain — King of Castilla and León and King of Aragon and Portugal (1578-1621)
• 1629
  Christiaan Huygens — Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
• 1738
  William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland — British politician and prime minister (1738–1809)
• 1741
  Momozono — emperor of Japan
• 1857
  Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom — youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (1857–1944)
• 1862
  Pyotr Stolypin — Russian politician (1862–1911)
• 1868
  Peter Behrens — German architect and designer (1868-1940)
• 1882
  Moritz Schlick — German philosopher (1882-1936)
• 1886
  Edward C. Tolman — American psychologist (1886–1959)
• 1889
  Arnold J. Toynbee — British historian (1889–1975)
• 1891
  — Indian jurist, economist, and social reformer (1891–1956)
• 1892
  Vere Gordon Childe — British prehistorian archaeologist (1892–1957)
• 1904
  John Gielgud — British actor and theatre director (1904-2000)
• 1906
  King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud — King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975
• 1907
  François Duvalier — 40th President of the Republic of Haiti (1907-1971)
• 1912
  Robert Doisneau — French photographer (1912–1994)
• 1921
  Thomas Schelling — American economist (1921-2016)
• 1922
  Ali Akbar Khan — Hindustani musician (1922–2009)
• 1925
  Rod Steiger — American actor (1925–2002)
• 1927
  Alan MacDiarmid — New Zealand chemist (1927–2007)
• 1930
  Bradford Dillman — American actor (1930–2018)
• 1932
  Loretta Lynn — American country singer (1932–2022)

Deaths · 60

• 911(Julian date)
  Sergius III — pope (860-911)
• 1070
  Gerard, Duke of Lorraine — duke of Lorraine
• 1132(Julian date)
  Mstislav I of Kiev — grand prince of Kiev (1076–1132)
• 1279(Julian date)
  Bolesław the Pious — Duke of Greater Poland
• 1345(Julian date)
  Richard de Bury — Bishop of Durham; Lord Privy Seal; Lord Chancellor of England; Lord High Treasurer of England (1287-1345)
• 1433(Julian date)
  Lidwina — Dutch Catholic saint
• 1471(Julian date)
  Richard Neville — jure uxoris 16th Earl of Warwick and suo jure 6th Earl of Salisbury (1428-1471)
• 1471
  John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu — English nobleman and military (c. 1431–1471)
• 1488
  Girolamo Riario — Lord of Italy (1443-1488)
• 1574(Julian date)
  Louis of Nassau — nobleman of the Netherlands; military leader in the Eighty Years' War (1538-1574)
• 1578(Julian date)
  James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell — 1st Duke of Orkney and third and final husband of Mary, Queen of Scots (lived 1534-1578)
• 1609
  Gasparo da Salò — Italian luthier
• 1682
  Avvakum — Russian protopope
• 1759
  George Frideric Handel — German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
• 1792
  Maximilian Hell — Slovak-Hungarian Jesuit, astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (1720–1792)
• 1843
  Joseph Lanner — Austrian dance music composer (1801–1843)
• 1910
  Mikhail Vrubel — Russian painter (1856-1910)
• 1912
  Henri Brisson — French politician (1835-1912)
• 1917
  L. L. Zamenhof — Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
• 1924
  Louis Sullivan — American architect (1856-1924)
• 1925
  — American painter (1856–1925)
• 1930
  Vladimir Mayakovsky — Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)
• 1935
  Emmy Noether — German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
• 1938
  Gillis Grafström — Swedish figure skater (1893-1938)
• 1943
  Yakov Dzhugashvili — first child of Josef Stalin (1907–1943)