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April 14th
43 BC Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Caesar's assassin Decimus Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, but is then immediately defeated by the army of the other consul, Aulus Hirtius.
AD 69 Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
AD 70 Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital with four Roman legions.
193 Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
966 After his marriage to the Christian Doubravka of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
972 Co-Emperor Otto II, a son of Otto I (the Great), marries the Byzantine princess Theophanu. She is crowned empress by Pope John XIII at Rome.
1028 Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected King of Germany.
1205 Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
1294 Temόr, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
1341 Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V, Marquess of Saluzzo.
1434 The foundation stone of Nantes Cathedral, France is laid.
1471 In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
1561 A celestial phenomenon is reported over Nuremberg, described as an aerial battle.
1639 Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz. The Swedish victory prolongs the Thirty Years' War and allows them to advance into Bohemia.
1699 Khalsa: The Sikh religion was formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1775 The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1816 Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
1828 Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1849 Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
1865 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
1865 U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
1881 The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
1890 The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
1894 The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1900 The Exposition Universelle begins.
1902 James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.[1]
1906 The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
1908 Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1 m) high downstream.
1909 A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
1912 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
1927 The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1928 The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
1931 The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
1935 The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
1939 The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
1940 World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
1941 World War II: German general Erwin Rommel attacks Tobruk.
1942 Malta receives the George Cross for its gallantry. The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.
1944 Bombay explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
1945 Razing of Friesoythe: The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division deliberately destroyed the German town of Friesoythe on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes.
1958 The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
1967 Gnassingbι Eyadιma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
1981 STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.
1986 The heaviest hailstones ever recorded (1 kilogram (2.2 lb)) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
1988 The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
1988 In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
1991 The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
1994 In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
1999 NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
1999 A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2002 Venezuelan President Hugo Chαvez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
2003 The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
2003 U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
2005 The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
2010 Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
2012 United Nations Security Council Resolution 2042 relating to Syrian uprising is adopted.
2014 Twin bomb blasts in Abuja, Nigeria, kill at least 75 people and injures 141 others.
2014 Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria.
2016 In Japan, the foreshock of Kumamoto earthquakes occurs.
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