About May 14
May 14, 2025 is the 134th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 279 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 14
- 1264 –Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
- 1483 –Coronation of Charles VIII of France (Charles l'Affable).
- 1509 –Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
- 1607 –Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
- 1608 –The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
- 1610 –Henry IV of France is assassinated bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
- 1643 –Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
- 1747 –War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
- 1787 –In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
- 1796 –Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
- 1811 –Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
- 1870 –The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
- 1929 –Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau.
- 1940 –The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, has its first flight.
- 1940 –World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.
- 1943 –A Japanese submarine sinks Ship AHS off the coast of Queensland.
- 1955 –Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
- 1961 –American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
- 1973 –Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.
- 1988 –Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
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