April 14: Significance, Events, and How to Celebrate Natural Disasters & Epidemics

0193  Lucius Septimus Severus crowned emperor of Rome   

0711  Childebert III, king of French, dies at about 27.   

0754  Pact of Quierzy: between Pope Stephen II, [III] and Pippin the Korte.   

0911  Sergius III, Italian Pope (904-11), dies   

0966  Christianisation of Poland.   

0972  Notger is recorded as becoming bishop of Liege   

0979  Challenge to throne of King Aethelred II of England   

1028  German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king.   

1099  Conrad, bishop of Utrecht, stabbed to death.   

1191  85-year old Giacinto Bobo is recorded as becoming Pope Coelestinus III   

1240  Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of Wales, dies   

1279  Boleslaus of Greater Poland.   

1341  Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo   

1427  John IV, duke of Brabant, dies.   

1433  Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch mystic (Christ's Bride)/saint, dies at 53   

1434  The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.   

1471  Battle of Barnet-King Edward IV vs Earl of Warwick   

1471  Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury, dies at 42.   

1536  English king Henry VIII expropriate minor monasteries   

1544  Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss.   

1552  Laurentius Andreae, [Lars Andersson], Swedish church reformer, dies.   

1561  A battle of UFOs was seen in the sky over Nuremberg Germany.   

1570  Polish Calvinists/Lutherians/Hernhutters unify against Jesuits.   

1574  Battle of Mookerhei-D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau   

1574  Christoffel Palts, German general strategist, dies in battle   

1578  Philip III, King of Spain and Portugal (1598-1621)   

1578  James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of Scotland   

1592  Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher   

1599  Henry Wallop, English statesman.   

1611  Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi).   

1629  England and France sign Peace of Susa.   

1629  Christian Huygens, Holland, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings)   

1655  Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer, dies at 39   

1671  Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin.   

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