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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jun 14, 1276 |
While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song. |
Jun 14, 1381 |
Richard II in England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance. |
Jun 14, 1535 |
Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis |
Jun 14, 1565 |
Catharina de Medici & Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism |
Jun 14, 1597 |
At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands |
Jun 14, 1615 |
Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis |
Jun 14, 1623 |
1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan, he loses |
Jun 14, 1634 |
Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov |
Jun 14, 1642 |
1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts |
Jun 14, 1645 |
Battle of Naseby, Leicestershire "New Model Army" under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beat royalists forces of English King Charles I |
Jun 14, 1658 |
Battle at Dunes: English & French fleet beat Spanish |
Jun 14, 1673 |
Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet |
Jun 14, 1775 |
US Army founded |
Jun 14, 1777 |
Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag |
Jun 14, 1789 |
Capt William Bligh reaches Timor |
Jun 14, 1797 |
Napoleon forms Ligurian Republic |
Jun 14, 1800 |
Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria |
Jun 14, 1807 |
Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition. |
Jun 14, 1821 |
Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom. |
Jun 14, 1822 |
Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables". |
Jun 14, 1834 |
Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine |
Jun 14, 1834 |
Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont |
Jun 14, 1839 |
First Henley Regatta held (it became the Henley Royal Regatta in 1851) |
Jun 14, 1841 |
1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario |
Jun 14, 1846 |
Belgian Liberal Party forms |
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