On this day: 14 May
Events, births and deaths on 14 May. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Darwyn Cooke
100 years ago1926
- Births · Eric Morecambe
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 964 · Deaths · John XII
- 1097 · Events · Siege of Nicaea
- 1080 · Deaths · William Walcher
Events · 25
- 1097Siege of Nicaea — 1097 The siege of Nicaea
- 1264Battle of Lewes — 1264 battle of the Second Barons' War
- 1450(Julian date)Siege of Krujë — 1450 first siege of Krujë
- 1509(Julian date)Battle of Agnadello — 1509 battle during the War of the League of Cambrai
- 1608Protestant Union — coalition of Protestant German states formed on May 14, 1608 by Frederick IV, Elector Palatine and dissolved in 1621.
- 1747First Battle of Cape Finisterre — 1747 naval battle
- 1804Lewis and Clark Expedition — American overland expedition to the Pacific coast
- 1836Treaties of Velasco — peace treaty
- 1842The Illustrated London News — British former illustrated news magazine (1842–2003) and current digital agency
- 1863Battle of Jackson — 1863 battle of the American Civil War
- 1878Kioichō Incident — 1878 assassination of Ōkubo Toshimichi
- 19151915 Portuguese coup d'état — politico-military uprising
- 1931Ådalen shootings — riot
- 1940German invasion of the Netherlands — Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940
- 1940Rotterdam Blitz — aerial bombardment of Rotterdam by the Luftwaffe (German air force) on 14 May 1940, during the German invasion of the Netherlands in World War II
- 1948Israel — country in West Asia
- 1948Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel — 1948 declaration of Israel's independence
- 1955Warsaw Pact — European Eastern Military Alliance (1954 – 1991)
- 19771977 Dan-Air Boeing 707 crash — aviation accident
- 1980Sumpul River massacre — 1980 massacre in El Salvador
- 19871987 Fijian coups d'état — Two coups that overthrew Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra and the monarchy
- 1997Star Alliance — airline alliance headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany
- 2004wedding of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, and Mary Donaldson — May 2004 wedding of Danish heir apparent Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, and Mary Donaldson
- 20082008 UEFA Cup Final — final
- 2012Agni Air Flight CHT — Air Crash Near Jomsom Airport, Nepal
Births · 60
- 1316Charles IV — Holy Roman Emperor
- 1553(Julian date)Margaret of Valois — Queen of France and Navarre until 1599 (1553-1615).
- 1657Sambhaji — Second Maratha king of the Maratha Empire, also a writer, philosopher and successor of Shivaji (1657-1689)
- 1666Victor Amadeus II of Savoy — Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia (1666–1732)
- 1710Adolf Fredrik of Sweden — King of Sweden (1710–1771)
- 1725Ludovico Manin — 120th, and the last, Doge of Venice
- 1727Thomas Gainsborough — English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788)
- 1771Robert Owen — Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer (1771–1858)
- 1832Rudolf Lipschitz — German mathematician (1832-1903)
- 1863John Charles Fields — Canadian mathematician (1863–1932)
- 1867Kurt Eisner — German politician and journalist (1867-1919)
- 1868Magnus Hirschfeld — German physician and sexologist (1868–1935)
- 1880Wilhelm List — German field marshal (1880–1971)
- 1885Otto Klemperer — German conductor and composer (1885–1973)
- 1897Sidney Bechet — American jazz musician
- 1904Hans Albert Einstein — Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
- 1907Ayub Khan — President of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969
- 1922Franjo Tuđman — Croatian politician, soldier, president and historian (1922–1999)
- 1923Mrinal Sen — Indian film director (1923–2018)
- 1925Oona O'Neill — American-British actress (1925–1991)
- 1933Siân Phillips — British Actress
- 1936Bobby Darin — American singer and actor (1936–1973)
- 1943Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson — Icelandic politician, 5th President of Iceland
- 1943Jack Bruce — British musician (1943–2014)
- 1944George Lucas — American filmmaker and philanthropist (born 1944)
Deaths · 60
- 964(Julian date)John XII — Head of the Catholic Church from 955 to 964
- 1219(Julian date)William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke — Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)
- 1576(Julian date)Tahmasp I — Safavid Shah of Iran from 1524 to 1576
- 1608Charles III, Duke of Lorraine — Duke of Lorraine from 1545 (1543-1608)
- 1610Henry IV of France — King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610 and King of France from 1589 to 1610 (1553-1610)
- 1643Louis XIII of France — King of France and Navarre from 1610 to 1643 (1601–1643)
- 1688Antoine Furetière — French writer and scholar (1619-1688)
- 1761Thomas Simpson — British mathematician (1710-1761)
- 1847Fanny Mendelssohn — German pianist and composer (1805–1847)
- 1860Ludwig Bechstein — German writer and fairy tale collector (1801-1860)
- 1878Ōkubo Toshimichi — one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration, regarded as one of the main founders of modern Japan (1830-1878)
- 1881Mary Seacole — British-Jamaican businesswoman and nurse
- 1881Maria Mazzarello — Italian saint (1837-1881)
- 1887Lysander Spooner — American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century (1808–1887)
- 1893Ernst Kummer — German mathematician (1810–1893)
- 1906Carl Schurz — Union Army general, politician (1829-1906)
- 1912
- 1912Frederik VIII of Denmark — King of Denmark from 1906 to 1912
- 1919Henry J. Heinz — American businessman (1844-1919)
- 1923Charles de Freycinet — politician of the French Third Republic (1828-1923)
- 1931David Belasco — American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright (1853-1931)
- 1935Magnus Hirschfeld — German physician and sexologist (1868–1935)
- 1936Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby — British Army general (1861-1936)
- 1940Emma Goldman — Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)
- 1940Menno ter Braak — Dutch writer (1902-1940)
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