On this day: 14 September

Years ago today

Events · 28

• 919
  Battle of Islandbridge — AD 919 attempt to drive Vikings from Ireland
• 1115(Julian date)
  Battle of Sarmin — battle in 1115
• 1141(Julian date)
  Rout of Winchester — 1141 conflict within the Anarchy (civil war)
• 1180
  Battle of Ishibashiyama — 1180 battle of the Genpei War
• 1402(Julian date)
  Battle of Homildon Hill — conflict between English and Scottish armies on 14 September 1402 in Northumberland, England, UK
• 1685
  Battle of Kalamata — 1685 Venetian-Ottoman battle of the Morean War
• 1752
  Gregorian calendar — internationally accepted civil calendar, first used in 1582
• 1763
  Battle of Devil's Hole — 1763 battle of Pontiac's Rebellion
• 1808
  Battle of Oravais — 1808 battle of the Finnish War
• 1812
  Fire of Moscow — 1812 fire in Moscow, Russia
• 1829
  treaty of Adrianople — peace treaty
• 1846
  Kot Massacre — 1846 mass killing of Nepalese government officials and royals
• 1862
  Namamugi Incident — samurai assault on British people in Japan on September 14, 1862
• 1862
  Battle of South Mountain — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
• 1940
  Ip massacre — massacre
• 1946
  1946 Faroese independence referendum — 1946 plebiscite in the Faroe Islands on independence from Denmark
• 1954
  Totskoye nuclear exercise — 1954 soviet nuclear bombing test
• 1960
  Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries — international organization of petroleum-exporting countries
• 1982
  Assassination of Bachir Gemayel — 1982 bombing of the Kataeb Party headquarters
• 1983
  1983 Guilin Airport collision — 1983 aviation accident in Guilin, Guangxi, China
• 1985
  Penang Bridge — road bridge connecting Penang Island with the Malay Peninsula
• 1992
  Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia — unrecognized proto-state in the Balkans (1991-96); now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1993
  Lufthansa Flight 2904 — aviation accident
• 2002
  Total Linhas Aereas Flight 5561 — 2002 aviation accident
• 2003
  Estonian European Union membership referendum, 2003
• 2003
  2003 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
• 2008
  Aeroflot Flight 821 — 2008 Boeing 737-500 crash in Russia
• 2019
  2019 Abqaiq-Khurais attack — 2019 drone attack

Births · 60

• 208(Julian date)
  Diadumenian — Roman emperor (218)
• 1401(Julian date)
  Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon — Queen consort of Aragon and Naples
• 1486(Julian date)
  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa — German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
• 1547(Julian date)
  Johan van Oldenbarnevelt — Dutch statesman and revolutionary (1547-1619)
• 1580(Julian date)
  Francisco Quevedo — Spanish writer (1580-1645)
• 1618
  Peter Lely — 17th-century Dutch painter (1618–1680)
• 1760
  Luigi Cherubini — Italian Classical and Romantic composer (1760–1842)
• 1769
  Alexander von Humboldt — Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
• 1774
  Lord William Bentinck — First Governor General of India, British soldier and statesman (1774-1839)
• 1791
  Franz Bopp — German linguist (1791-1861)
• 1804
  John Gould — English ornithologist (1804–1881)
• 1864
  Robert Cecil — lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom (1864-1958)
• 1879
  Margaret Sanger — American birth control activist and nurse (1879–1966)
• 1880
  Archie Hahn — German-American athlete
• 1886
  Jan Masaryk — Czechoslovak diplomat and politician (1886–1948)
• 1889
  María Capovilla — Ecuadorian supercentenarian (1889–2006)
• 1910
  Jack Hawkins — British film and stage actor (1910-1973)
• 1913
  Jacobo Árbenz — president of Guatemala in 1951–54
• 1920
  Lawrence Klein — American economist (1920-2013)
• 1920
  Mario Benedetti — Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet (1920-2009)
• 1926
  Michel Butor — French author, writer, poet, novelist (1926-2016)
• 1928
  Alberto Korda — Cuban photographer (1928–2001)
• 1930
  Allan Bloom — American philosopher, classicist, and academician (1930–1992)
• 1934
  Sarah Kofman — philosopher from France
• 1936
  Ferid Murad — American physician and pharmacologist (1936–2023)

Deaths · 60

• 23
  Drusus Julius Caesar — son of Emperor Tiberius
• 258(Julian date)
  Cyprian — Bishop of Carthage and Christian writer (c.210-258)
• 407(Julian date)
  John Chrysostom — Church father, Archbishop of Constantinople and Christian saint (c. 347–407)
• 585(Julian date)
  Bidatsu — Emperor of Japan
• 619
  Emperor Gong of Sui — emperor of the Sui Dynasty
• 775(Julian date)
  Konstantinos V — emperor of Byzantium
• 786(Julian date)
  Al-Hadi — Arab Abbasid Caliph (r. 785-786)
• 891(Julian date)
  Stephen V — pope
• 1146(Julian date)
  Imad ad-Din Zengi — Zengid ruler
• 1164(Julian date)
  Emperor Sutoku — Emperor of Japan
• 1321(Julian date)
  Dante Alighieri — Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
• 1404(Julian date)
  Albert IV, Duke of Austria — Austrian duke
• 1435(Julian date)
  John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford — British duke
• 1523(Julian date)
  Adrian VI — pope of the Catholic Church from 1522 to 1523 (1459–1523)
• 1638
  John Harvard — English-American clergyman and philanthropist (1607-1638)
• 1712
  Giovanni Domenico Cassini — Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)
• 1715
  Dom Pérignon — French Benedictine monk and inventor of champagne
• 1743
  Nicolas Lancret — French painter (1690-1743)
• 1759
  Louis-Joseph de Montcalm — French soldier
• 1821
  Heinrich Kuhl — German naturalist and zoologist (1797–1821)
• 1836
  Aaron Burr — vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, lived (1756–1836)
• 1851
  James Fenimore Cooper — American writer (1789–1851)
• 1852
  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington — British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834 (1769-1852)
• 1852
  Augustus Pugin — English architect and designer (1812–1852)
• 1901
  William McKinley — president of the United States from 1897 to 1901 (1843-1901)