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June 14
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| 847 Death of St. Methodius of Constantinople | ||
| 1144 Consecration of Notre Dame, Paris | ||
| 1170 Coronation of Henry III as King of England | ||
| 1191 Phillip II of France orders a general assault on Acre. He fails | ||
| 1272 Founding of Gouda, Holland | ||
| 1325 Ibn Batuta leaves Tangier to make Pilgrimage to Mecca. He does not return for twenty-nine years. | ||
| 1334 The Mongol Khatun (Princess) Bayalun journeys to Constantinople | ||
| 1497 Murder of Duke of Gandia | ||
| 1535 Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis | ||
| 1541 Duke Willem van Gulik of Gelre marries Jeanne d'Albret | ||
| 1565 Catharina de Medici & Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism |
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| 1597 At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands | ||
| 1615 Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis | ||
| 1634 Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov | ||
| 1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts | ||
| 1645 Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell Thomas Fairfax beats royalists | ||
| 1647 English New Model-army installed | ||
| 1658 Battle at Dunes: English & French fleet beat Spanish | ||
| 1673 Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet | ||
| 1755 1e edition of Dr Johnsons "Dictionary" | ||
| 1775 US Army founded | ||
| 1777 Congress adopted the "Stars and Stripes" as the official flag of the United States of America | ||
| 1789 English Admiral Captain Bligh and 18 others, cast adrift from HMS Bounty, eventually reached Timor in the East Indies after a voyage of nearly 4,000 miles in an open boat. | ||
| 1798 Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian, politician and campaigner for a separate Czech nation, born. | ||
| 1800 Napoleon defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo, northern Italy, during the War of the Second Coalition. | ||
| 1801 Benedict Arnold, American general who shifted his allegiance to the British during the American Revolution, died in London. | ||
| 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist famous for "Uncle Tom's Cabin," born. | ||
| 1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine | ||
| 1838 Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese soldier and twice prime minister from 1889-91 and 1898-1900, born. He played a major role in turning Japan into a formidable military power. |
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| 1841 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario | ||
| 1844 Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist | ||
| 1846 Belgian Liberal Party forms | ||
| 1846 California declares independence from Mexico | ||
| 1847 Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner | ||
| 1850 Fire destroys part of SF | ||
| 1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia | ||
| 1864 Congress rules Black soldiers must receive equal pay | ||
| 1883 Edward Fitzgerald, English poet best known for his "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," died. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| 1898 A convention was signed between Britain and France, defining the borders between Nigeria and the Gold Coast. | ||
| 1900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins | ||
| 1904 Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants | ||
| 1906 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia | ||
| 1907 Govt of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers | ||
| 1907 Norway restricts woman's voting rights | ||
| 1917 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London | ||
| 1917 Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I | ||
| 1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld | ||
| 1919 Sam Wanamaker, American actor, director and producer, born. He was also the inspiration behind the rebuilding of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on the River Thames in London. | ||
| 1922 President Warren Harding became the first U.S. president to broadcast by radio | ||
| 1928 Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Cuban guerrilla leader, born in Argentina. He was killed in the Bolivian jungle in 1967. | ||
| 1928 Emmeline Pankhurst, English champion of women's rights, died. An act establishing voting equality for men and women was passed just after her death. | ||
| 1929 Prussia & Vatican sign Concord | ||
| 1932 German govt of von Papen forms | ||
| 1934 Hitler & Mussolini meet in Vienna | ||
| 1935 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends | ||
| 1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there) | ||
| 1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral | ||
| 1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II | ||
| 1940 The Swastika was hoisted on the Eiffel Tower as the German army entered and occupied Paris. | ||
| 1941 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the freezing of all German and Italian assets in the United States. | ||
| 1941 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations | ||
| 1942 Anne Frank begins her diary | ||
| 1942 French govt of Reynaud resigns | ||
| 1944 General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France | ||
| 1946 Canadian Library Association established | ||
| 1946 John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor who pioneered the development of television, died. | ||
| 1948 Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1949 Bao Dai was installed as president of the new state of Vietnam | ||
| 1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus | ||
| 1958 Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela | ||
| 1967 USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit | ||
| 1971 The New York Times began publishing extracts from the top-secret "Pentagon Papers" on the Vietnam War | ||
| 1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution | ||
| 1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847 | ||
| 1986 Alan Jay Lerner, American playwright and lyricist, died. With Frederick Lowe, he composed musicals including "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot." | ||
| 1989 Former U.S. president Ronald Reagan was made an honorary knight by Britain's Queen Elizabeth. | ||
| 1990 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld, by a 6-to-3 vote, police checkpoints to examine drivers for signs of intoxication | ||
| 1993 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth | ||
| 1993 Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey | ||
| 1994 Henry Mancini, American composer of soundtracks for the "Pink Panther" movies, "Days of Wine and Roses" and dozens of other hit films, died. |
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