Today in History
14 January
Battle of Rivoli in Italy by Vernet
Isaac da Costa
Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
by Sir H. von Herkomer
(posthumous portrait based on photographs)
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14 January |
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| 1236 English king Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence |
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| 1467 Henry van Stolberg & Wernigerode, German gov/viceroy of Frisia was born | ||
| 1526 Charles V & Francis I sign Treaty of Madrid | ||
| 1526 Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy & Flanders | ||
| 1592 Sjihab al-Din Sultan Choerram Sjah Djahan, leader of India was born | ||
| 1601 Church authorities burn hebrew books in Rome | ||
| 1604 The Hampton Court Conference began under James I to discuss Puritan demands for doctrinal changes in the Church of England. | ||
| 1639 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford | ||
| 1641 United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed | ||
| 1659 Battle at Elvas: Portuguese beat Spanish | ||
| 1676 Italian composer Pietro Francesco Cavalli died; he is best known for his sacred music and his operas, notably "Calisto." | ||
| 1690 Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany | ||
| 1717 German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam | ||
| 1724 Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne | ||
| 1730 William Whipple, merchant/judge (Declaration of Independence signer) was born | ||
| 1739 England & Spain signs 2nd Convention of Pardo | ||
| 1783 Congress ratifies peace treaty between US & England | ||
| 1784 Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris | ||
| 1785 Mozart completes "Dissonantenkwartet" | ||
| 1797 In the Battle of Rivoli in Italy, the French defeated an Austrian attempt to relieve Mantua; 3,500 Austrian troops were killed. |
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| 1798 Isaac da Costa, Dutch writer/lawyer was born | ||
| 1799 Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets | ||
| 1799 King of Naples flees before advancing French armies | ||
| 1814 Under the Treaty of Kiel, the king of Denmark ceded Norway to the king of Sweden. | ||
| 1847 Conspiracy in New Mexico against US | ||
| 1858 Italian revolutionary Felice Orsini threw bombs at Napoleon III in Paris in an assassination attempt; several people were killed but the emperor was unharmed. | ||
| 1863 Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche Louisiana | ||
| 1864 General Sherman begins his march to the South | Battle of Rivoli in Italy by Vernet |
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| 1866 Peru, dissatisfied with a treaty recognising Peruvian independence signed in 1865, declared war on Spain. | ||
| 1874 Thornton Waldo Burgess, author (Peter Rabbit) was born | ||
| 1875 Albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian/organist (Nobel 1954) was born | ||
| 1878 The first private connection by telephone in Great Britain was made on the Isle of Wight when Queen Victoria spoke to Thomas Biddulph. | ||
| 1898 Lewis Carroll, British author of "Alice in Wonderland," died; he also lectured in mathematics at Oxford University and was a pioneer photographer. | ||
| 1900 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" was staged for the first time in Rome. | ||
| 1904 Cecil Beaton, England, royal family photographer was born | ||
| 1907 Hundreds died when an earthquake destroyed much of the Jamaican capital Kingston. | ||
| 1912 Raymond Poincar‚ becomes premier of France | ||
| 1914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords | ||
| 1916 Dutch South Sea dike cracks | ||
| 1918 Finland & USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar | ||
| 1924 Allies direct Fiume (Rijeka) in Italy |
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| 1929 In Afghanistan, King Amanullah was forced to abdicate in favour of his brother, Inayatullah. | ||
| 1932 1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in US installed, Hialeah | ||
| 1935 Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use | ||
| 1936 L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America | ||
| 1938 National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY) | ||
| 1939 Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica | ||
| 1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo | ||
| 1943 The Allies met in Casablanca to agree on a strategy for concluding World War II and to demand the unconditional surrender from the enemy. | ||
| 1946 2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed | ||
| 1949 Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die | ||
| 1950 US recalls all consular officials from China | ||
| 1952 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends | ||
| 1952 Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26 | ||
| 1953 Marshal Josip Broz Tito was elected first president of the Republic of Yugoslavia. | Isaac da Costa |
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| 1956 Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad | ||
| 1957 Humphrey Bogart, whose films included "The Maltese Falcon" and "Casablanca," died; he won an Oscar for his role in "The African Queen." | ||
| 1960 Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded | ||
| 1965 The prime ministers of Northern Ireland and Ireland met for the first time in 43 years. | ||
| 1967 Earthquake in Sicily kills 231 | ||
| 1969 The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 was launched, followed the next day by Soyuz 5; they achieved the first docking of two manned spacecraft in Earth orbit. | ||
| 1969 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers | ||
| 1974 World Football League founded | ||
| 1975 Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 m | ||
| 1976 Malaysian Premier Tun Abdul Razak died in London. He was succeeded by Datuk Hussein Bin Onu. |
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| 1977 Anthony Eden, British statesman and prime minister from 1955 to 1957, died. He resigned his premiership in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis of 1956. | ||
| 1977 Peter Finch, British film actor, died. He starred in "Network" with Faye Dunaway and in "Trials of Oscar Wilde." | ||
| 1980 The U.N. General Assembly approved a motion calling for immediate withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan following the Soviet invasion in December, 1979. | ||
| 1986 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect | ||
| 1989 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradfort England | ||
| 1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped | ||
| 1991 Three Palestinian guerrilla chiefs, including Abu Iyad, were assassinated in Tunis. | ||
| 1993 Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die | Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) |
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| 1995 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo | ||
| 1995 The British Army ended 25 years of daylight patrols in Belfast in a wind-down of a guerrilla conflict which engulfed Northern Ireland. | ||
| 1996 The confessed assassin of Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin, Yigal Amir, was formally charged with conspiricy to murder. | ||
| 1996 Right-wing businessman Alvaro Arzu took office as Guatemala's new president and appealed for an end to a brutal 35-year civil war. |
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