Historical Events In August - 14
Sunday, 18 May 2025
0410 On August - 14 alaric sacks Rome
0554 On this day in history ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines milt governor in Italy
0582 Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor on August - 14.
1167 Raynald van Dassel, archbishop of Cologne, dies on August - 14.
1183 On August - 14 taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
1248 On August - 14 construction of Cologne Cathedral begun
1281 On August - 14 kublai Khans invading fleet disappears in typhoon near Japan
1385 On August - 14 portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
1385 On this day in history battle at Aljubarotta-Portugal defeats Castile
1395 On August - 14 utrecht bishop Frederik of Blankenheim occupies Coevorden
1433 Johan I, king of Portugal (1383-1433), dies at 76 on this day in history.
1457 Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg) on this day in history.
1498 On this day in history columbus landed at the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela
1551 Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli on this day in history.
1552 On August - 14 fra Paolo Sarpi, [Paulus Venetus], expert/philosopher
1559 Spanish explorer de Luna lands in Pensacola Bay,Fla on August - 14.
1585 On August - 14 queen Elizabeth I refuses sovereignty of Netherlands
1587 Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer, dies at 49 on August - 14.
1597 On August - 14 cornelis de Houtmans fleet is 1st Dutch visit to Java
1598 Irish rebel Hugh O'Neill, the earl of Tyrone, annihilates an English force at Yellow Ford, marking the greatest Irish victory in the wars with the English on this day in history.
1624 Dutch fleet ceases Callao the Lima in Peru on this day in history.
1626 On August - 14 daniel Elsevier, book publisher/publisher
1636 On this day in history spanish troops occupy Corbie at Amiens
1642 Able Tasmans ships Heemskerck/Zeehaen depart out of Batavia on August - 14.
1642 On this day in history cosimo III de' Medici, monarch of Florence (1670-1723)
1652 Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 60 on August - 14.
1675 Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer on this day in history.
1678 On this day in history battle of Mons-French repulse William of Orange
1687 Johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/ruler (Nassau-Dietz) [NS] on this day in history.
1688 Frederik Willem I, king of Prussia (bodyguard of giants) on August - 14.
1714 Claude-Joseph Vernet, French painter on August - 14.
1727 On August - 14 henriette-Anne of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d.1752)
1727 William Croft, composer, dies at 48 on this day in history.
1737 Charles Hutton, mathematician on August - 14.
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