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January 14 in history

213 sourced entries recorded on January 14, from 38 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 1005January 13–18 – The Shanyuan Treaty is negotiated between the Liao dynasty and the Song dynasty. The Song government agrees to pay an annual tribute of 200,000 bolts of raw silk and 100,000 taels of silver, ending the northern border clashes against Liao.source
  • 1236King Henry III marries the 14-year-old Eleanor of Provence, one of the four daughters of Raimond Berenguer, count of Provence. The ceremony takes place at Canterbury Cathedral, with Simon de Montfort, as Lord High Steward, takes care of the banquet and kitchen arrangements. Eleanor is crowned queen at Westminster Abbey shortly afterward.source
  • 1301With the death of King Andrew III ("the Venetian") after a short illness, possibly from poisoning, the Árpád Dynasty in Hungary ends. This results in a power struggle between Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, Otto III of Bavaria, and Charles Robert of Naples. Eventually, Wenceslaus is elected and crowned as king of Hungary and Croatia. His rule is only nominal, because a dozen powerful Hungarian nobles hold sway over large territories in the kingdom.source
  • 1319The Earl of Pembroke and the Earl of Hereford persuade Walter Reynolds, Archbishop of Canterbury, to consecrate Stephen Gravesend as the Bishop of London.source
  • 1323On behalf of the Fraticelli order of Spiritual Franciscans, Italian lawyer Bonagrazia of Bergamo issues a protest to Pope John XXII of the December 8 papal bull Ad conditorem canonum. Pope John revises the text of the bull and reissues it, but also punishes Bonagrazia for his insolence by having him imprisoned.source
  • 1343Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last bishop of Prague and, subsequently, the first Archbishop of Prague.source
  • 1351Edward III of England institutes the Treason Act 1351, defining treason in English law. It remains unrepealed into the 21st century.source
  • 1378King Richard II opens the Irish Parliament for the first time since the death of his father, King Edward III, a year earlier.source
  • 1381Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester and son of the late King Edward III of England, ends his siege of the French city of Nantes after two months, having started on 8 November 1380.source
  • 1386The Austrian garrison at Meienberg responds to the overtures from the Swiss canton of Lucerne and kills over 140 of the Swiss Confederacy troops, starting a war between the two nations.source
  • 1404The fourth Parliament of King Henry IV of England opens for a session of two months.source
  • 1460After gaining a consensus at the Council of Mantua, Pope Pius II formally declares a Christian crusade against the Muslim Ottoman Empire to recapture Constantinople, which had been captured by the Ottomans in 1453.source
  • 1505Pope Julius II issues the papal bull Cum tam divino, decreeing a reform in the Roman Catholic Church to prohibit simony, the buying and selling of church offices ranging from bishops to the pope himself.source
  • 1506The classical statue of Laocoön and His Sons is unearthed in Rome. On the recommendation of Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo, Pope Julius II purchases it, and places it on public display in the Vatican a month later.source
  • 1526Treaty of Madrid: Peace is declared between Francis I of France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Francis agrees to cede Burgundy and abandons all claims to Flanders, Artois, Naples, and Milan.source
  • 1526Treaty of Madrid was signed by king Francis I stipulating the abandonment of Burgundy, and French claims in northern Italy and Artois .source
  • 1538Leonard Grey, England's Lord Deputy of Ireland, successfully negotiates a truce in the semi-independent County Laois, formerly an Irish Kingdom, over the areas leadership. between Peter O'Moore and Rory Lysaght.source
  • 1581The Treaty of Drohiczyn is concluded, ending the Livonian War and adding the conquered city of Riga to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.source
  • 1587In Japan, Chancellor of the Realm Toyotomi Hideyoshi ends Portugal's control of the port of Nagasaki after six years. Omura Sumitada had leased the fishing village to Portuguese Jesuits on August 15, 1580.source
  • 1590Sir William FitzWilliam, acting for the Lord Deputy, concludes his campaign against rebels in Connacht.source
  • 1604The Hampton Court Conference is held between James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of the Puritans. Work begins on the Authorized King James Version of the Bible and revision of the Book of Common Prayer.source
  • 1624After 90 years of Ottoman occupation, Baghdad is recaptured by the Safavid Empire.source
  • 1634France's Compagnie normande obtains a one-year monopoly on trade with the African kingdoms in Guinea.source
  • 1641The Battle of Malacca concludes with the Dutch East India Company ending Portuguese control of Malacca.source
  • 1645English Civil War: Thomas Fairfax is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Parliamentarians.source
  • 1659Battle of the Lines of Elvassource
  • 1662A Portuguese garrison invades Morocco and kidnaps 35 women and girls, then steals 400 head of cattle. The Moroccans counterattack and kill the garrison's commander, 12 knights and 38 other Portuguese soldiers before the surviving Portuguese are given sanctuary inside the English fortress at Tangier. A brief war ensues between England and Morocco.source
  • 1691A fleet of ships carrying 827 Spanish Navy sailors and marines arrives at Manzanillo Bay on the island of Hispaniola in what is now the Dominican Republic and joins 700 Spanish cavalry, then proceeds westward to invade the French side of the island in what is now Haiti.source
  • 1695January 14 (January 4 O.S.) – The Royal Navy warship HMS Nonsuch is captured near England's Isles of Scilly by the 48-gun French privateer Le Francois. Nonsuch is then sold to the French Navy and renamed Le Sans Pareil.source
  • 17031703 Apennine earthquakes: The magnitude 6.7 Norcia earthquake affects Central Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). With a death toll of 6,240–9,761, it is the first in a sequence of three destructive events.source
  • 1739Britain and Spain sign the Convention of Pardo.source
  • 1761Third Battle of Panipat: In India, the armies of the Durrani Empire from Afghanistan, led by Ahmad Shah Durrani and his coalition decisively defeat the Maratha Confederacy, killing over 100,000 Maratha soldiers and civilians in battle and in a subsequent massacre, regaining territory lost by the Mughal Empire and restoring the Mughal Emperor, Shah Alam II, to the throne in Delhi as the nominal ruler.source
  • 1761Third Battle of Panipatsource
  • 1766Christian VII becomes King of Denmark-Norway.source
  • 1766Crown Prince Christian becomes King Christian VII of Denmark.source
  • 1775Siamese conquest of Chiang Mai and the Lan Na Kingdom.source
  • 1778The Anker family were ennobled.source
  • 1784The Congress of the United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain to end the American Revolution, with the signature of President of Congress Thomas Mifflin.source
  • 1784The Confederation Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain to end the American Revolutionary War.source
  • 1790U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton submits his proposed plan for payment of American debts, starting with $12,000,000 to pay the foreign debts of the confederation, followed by $40 million for domestic debts, and $21.5 million for the war debts of the states. The plan is narrowly approved 14-12 in the Senate, and 34-28 in the House.source
  • 1795The University of North Carolina opens to students at Chapel Hill, becoming the first state university in the United States.source
  • 1795The University of North Carolina (renamed The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963) opens to students, becoming the first state university in the United States.source
  • 1797War of the First Coalition – Battle of Rivoli: French forces under General Napoleon Bonaparte defeat an Austrian army of 28,000 men, under Feldzeugmeister József Alvinczi, near Rivoli (modern-day Italy), ending Austria's fourth and final attempt to relieve the fortress city of Mantua.source
  • 1803Lieut-Col David Collins is commissioned in England to found a new settlement on Bass Strait, preferably at Port Phillip.source
  • 1809The Apodaca–Canning treaty is signed in London between Britain and Spainsource
  • 1814Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes the Kingdom of Norway into personal union with Sweden, in exchange for west Pomerania. This marks the end of the real union of Denmark-Norway.source
  • 1814War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Antwerp: Allied forces besiege French Antwerp.source
  • 1814The third-coldest month in the CET series with an average of −2.9 allows the last River Thames frost fair in London.source
  • 1815The road over the Blue Mountains is completed to the Macquarie River.source
  • 1822Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrios Ypsilantis.source
  • 1832Battle of Epulafquensource
  • 1834The ten remaining convicts at the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station hijack a brig and escape to Chile in the Frederick escapesource
  • 1840the first known baptisms by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Scotland take place in the River Clyde at Bishopton when Samuel Mulliner, a Scot who joined the church in Canada, baptizes Alexander and Jessie Hay. In May, Orson Pratt preaches from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.source
  • 1840January 13–14 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks in icy waters, 4 miles off the coast of Long Island; 139 die, only 4 survive.source
  • 1847All thirteen members of the Point of Ayr life-boat crew are drowned when it capsizes off Rhyl.source
  • 1847All thirteen members of the Point of Ayr lifeboat crew are drowned when it capsizes off Rhyl.source
  • 1850Malcolm Cameron visits Washington, D.C. about a trade reciprocity agreement.source
  • 1852President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic.source
  • 1858Orsini affair: Piedmontese revolutionary Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris, but their bombs kill eight and wound 142 people. Because of the involvement of French émigrés living in Britain, there is a brief anti-British feeling in France, but the emperor refuses to support it.source
  • 1867a meeting of imperial advisers was held at the National Palace in the absence of Maximilian I, owing to the political and military situation. The meeting was presided over by Teodosio Lares, president of the Supreme Court of Justice. During the session, Marshal Achille Bazaine presented abdication as the only viable course for the emperor. The bishops withdrew their support for the Empire, while the imperial ministers continued to express confidence in defeating the Republican forces and restoring order.source
  • 1875The newly proclaimed King Alfonso XII of Spain (Queen Isabella II's son) arrives in Spain to restore the monarchy during the Third Carlist War.source
  • 1875The Halifax Herald is first published.source
  • 1883January 8 — January 19 – Trial of the 66 in Lyon, targeting the Black International in France.source
  • 1891Conference of Lakota chiefs with General Miles at Pine Ridge Reservation: the Lakota agree to surrender.source
  • 1891Bob Fitzsimmons wins the world middleweight boxing title by beating Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey.source
  • 1896Acres demonstrates his Kineopticon to the Royal Photographic Society at the Queen's Hall in London.source
  • 1899The White Star Line's transatlantic ocean liner RMS Oceanic is launched from the Belfast shipyards in Ireland. At 17,272 gross register tons and 704 ft, she is the largest ship afloat at this time.source
  • 1899The British four-masted sailing ship Andelana capsizes during a storm in Commencement Bay off the coast of the U.S. state of Washington, with the loss of all 17 of her crew.source
  • 18991899 European Figure Skating Championships takes place in Davos.source
  • 1900The U.S. Senate accepts the British-German Treaty of 1899, in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the American Samoa portion of the Samoan Islands.source
  • 1900Puccini's opera Tosca premieres in Rome.source
  • 1903Opening of Hotel National, Moscowsource
  • 19071907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 M w earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.source
  • 1911Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Roald Amundsen's Norwegian South Pole expedition arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at the Bay of Whales on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.source
  • 1912Raymond Poincaré forms a coalition government in France, beginning his first term of office as Prime Minister on 21 January.source
  • 1913The London Peace Conference ended as the Balkan states and the Ottoman Empire were unable to reach an agreement in negotiations.source
  • 1919Estonian War of Independence: Estonian forces liberate Tartu from the Red Army.source
  • 1919January 7–14 - Tragic Week (Argentina)source
  • 1920Chava Flores, musical chronicler Álbum de Oro de la Canción and composer (Dos horas de balazos and La tertulia) (died August 5, 1987)source
  • 1921Unemployment stands at 927,000.source
  • 1923Voters in El Salvador elected National Democratic Party candidate Alfonso Quiñónez Molina to be President of El Salvador with a 100% margin but no results were posted. He was the only candidate.source
  • 1924Arne Garborg, writer (born 1851)source
  • 1925Captain Roig and his group of three biplanes Bréguet XIV Renault, land in Buenos Aires on a reconnaissance flight from Rio de Janeiro, to demonstrate the viability of a regular air mail service along the Buenos Aires – Bahía Blanca – Comodoro Rivadavia route.source
  • 1937Wang Jingwei took a German passenger boat to Shanghai.source
  • 1938Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.source
  • 1939Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.source
  • 1941In a BBC radio broadcast from London, Victor de Laveleye asks all Belgians to use the letter "V" as a rallying sign, being the first letter of victoire (victory) in French and of vrijheid (freedom) in Dutch. This is the beginning of the "V campaign" which sees "V" graffities on the walls of Belgium and later all of Europe and introduces the use of the "V sign" for victory and freedom. Winston Churchill adopts the sign soon afterwards, though he sometimes gets it the wrong way around and uses the common insult gesture.source
  • 1941Radio Belgique launches V for Victory campaign.source
  • 1942The Sikorsky R-4 first flies in the United States; it will become the first mass-produced helicopter.source
  • 1943January 14–24 – WWII: Casablanca Conference: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and generals Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle of the French Resistance meet secretly at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next stage of the war.source
  • 1944WWII: Soviet troops start the offensive at Leningrad and Novgorod.source
  • 1944Meat rationing begins in Australia.source
  • 1953The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon.source
  • 1957Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.source
  • 1958Qantas Airways introduces a round-the-world air service from Australia to London.source
  • 1960The Reserve Bank and Commonwealth Bank are created.source
  • 1965Food Corporation of India was founded.source
  • 1965The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.source
  • 1969An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 28 and injures 314.source
  • 1972Queen Margrethe II of Denmark succeeds her father, King Frederik IX, on the throne of Denmark, the first queen regnant of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.source
  • 1978According to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency confirmed report, total of 25 people were dead, 211 people were wounded, a Richer Scale 6.7 earthquake and aftershocks damaged in Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka Prefecture.source
  • 1980Indian National Congress party leader Indira Gandhi returns to power as the Prime Minister of India.source
  • 1982An Ethiopian Air Force Antonov An-26 with an unknown registration crashed near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing all 73 occupants on board.source
  • 1983The head of Bangladesh's military dictatorship, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, announces his intentions to "turn Bangladesh into an Islamic state."source
  • 1985Hun Sen is confirmed as prime minister, having been acting PM since the death of his predecessor Chan Sy.source
  • 1986January 13–24 – South Yemen Civil War.source
  • 1987Vehbi Koç named Businessman of the Year by the International Chamber of Commerce.source
  • 1989Estonian Olympic Committee is re-established. Now Estonian athletes can compete under Estonian flag.source
  • 1990Fidel Castaño orders the Los Tangueros paramilitary group to commit the Pueblo Bello Massacre. They loot houses, round up peasants in the town square, select 43 men and boys to kidnap, and torture them. Of the 43 kidnapped, 6 are murdered, and the 37 others are 'disappeared'.source
  • 1993January 6–20 – The Bombay riots take place in Mumbai.source
  • 1993The Polish ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, killing 54 people.source
  • 1993January 8–17 – The Braer Storm of January 1993, the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, occurs.source
  • 1993Galeras tragedy: The Galeras stratovolcano erupts, killing 6 volcanologists and 3 tourists.source
  • 1994U.S. president Bill Clinton and Russian president Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.source
  • 1995January 12–16 – Second pastoral and state visit of Pope John Paul II in the country, coinciding with the 10th World Youth Day (WYD) and marking the fourth centenary of the Archdiocese of Manila and the Dioceses of Cebu, Caceres and Nueva Segovia. On Jan 15, the Mass he led in Luneta, marking the end of WYD, draws a crowd of an estimated 4-million, the largest gathering at such papal Mass at that time. —"Pope John Paul II to visit the Philippines in 1995" UCA News. July 14, 1993.source
  • 1995January 10–15 – The World Youth Day 1995 festival is held in Manila, Philippines, culminating in 5 million people gathering for John Paul II's concluding mass in Quirino Grandstand.source
  • 2000The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble).source
  • 2000The United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.source
  • 2001The start of Amorgos oil spill offshore Pingtung County.source
  • 2002Bulgaria competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, winning one silver and two bronze medals.source
  • 2004A 45-year-old Sudanese man travelling from Washington Dulles International Airport to airport Dubai is arrested en route at London's Heathrow Airport on suspicion of carrying five bullets in his coat pocket.source
  • 2005The Huygens spacecraft lands on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.source
  • 2007Rift Valley Fever outbreak in northeastern Kenya has reached a death toll of 95, out of 248 reported cases. Most affected are Garissa, Wajir, Ijara and Tana River districts. Several international and domestic health organisations have provided vaccines and other aid to overcome the outbreak.source
  • 2008At 19:04:39 UTC, the uncrewed MESSENGER space probe is at its closest approach during its first flyby of the planet Mercury.source
  • 2010Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.source
  • 2011The Tunisian government falls after a month of increasingly violent protests; President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia after 23 years in power.source
  • 2011Protests began, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Samir Rifai and complaints about soaring food prices, which would continue into 2012.source
  • 2011The death toll due to the political crisis in Ivory Coast reaches 247 since the November 28th election.source
  • 2014Myanmar host the 2014 ASEAN Para Games for first time.source
  • 2015The Haitian Parliament dissolves, causing political uncertainty.source
  • 2015The government says it will extend a controversial fence along its border with Turkey by 80 km to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants.source
  • 2015Heavy rains cause 48 deaths. About 70,000 lose their homes.source
  • 2016Thousands of Moldovans march the streets in protest against proposed candidate for Prime Minister Vlad Plahotniuc.source
  • 2022Bhutan reports its first 14 cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in people who travelled abroad.source
  • 20222022 Hunga Tonga eruption and tsunami: The Hunga Tonga, an undersea volcano, erupts, sending ash and steam 20 kilometers into the air. The government of Tonga issues a tsunami warning and advises people in all islands of Tonga to avoid the coasts.source
  • 20232023 Kazakh Senate electionsource
  • 2023January 10–17 – A cold snap in Afghanistan kills 166 people and nearly 80,000 livestock.source
  • 2025February 2 – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship is held in Croatia, Denmark and Norway, and is won by Denmark.source

Births

  • 38 BCENero Claudius Drusus, Roman politician and military commander, future stepson of Augustus Caesar (died 9 BC)source
  • 1094Eudokia Komnene, Byzantine princess (died 1129)source
  • 1131Valdemar I (the Great), king of Denmark (died 1182)source
  • 1272Hōjō Sadatoki, Japanese regent (died 1311)source
  • 1273Joan I of Navarre, queen of Navarre (died 1305)source
  • 1451Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (died 1522)source
  • 1477Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (died 1552)source
  • 1507Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal (died 1578)source
  • 1516Herluf Trolle, Danish admiral (died 1565)source
  • 1551Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Grand vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar (died 1602)source
  • 1552Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (died 1608)source
  • 1602Sir Henry Slingsby, 1st Baronet, English baronet (died 1658)source
  • 1660Joseph Boyse, Presbyterian minister (died 1728)source
  • 1683Gottfried Silbermann, German builder of keyboard instruments (died 1753)source
  • 1702Emperor Nakamikado, of Japan (died 1737)source
  • 1702Emperor Nakamikado (died 1737)source
  • 1741Benedict Arnold, American Revolutionary War general, traitor (died 1801)source
  • 1773William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, diplomat and governor general (d.1857)source
  • 1777Hannes Bjarnason, priest and poet.source
  • 1780Henry Baldwin, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1844)source
  • 1798Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Dutch statesman (died 1872)source
  • 1840Hilarión Daza, President 1876-1879source
  • 1841Berthe Morisot, French painter (died 1895)source
  • 1855Joseph Cochran, American missionary.source
  • 1861Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (died 1926)source
  • 1875Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian philosopher and musician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1965)source
  • 1919Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Italy (died 2013)source
  • 1925Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (died 1970)source
  • 1950Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya, Hindu religious leadersource
  • 1994Kai, South Korean singersource
  • 2004Ri Il-song, footballersource

Deaths

  • 152Markianos, patriarch of Alexandriasource
  • 175Pontianus of Spoleto, Christian martyr (born 156)source
  • 769Cui Huan, chancellor of the Tang dynastysource
  • 927Wang Yanhan, king of Min (Ten Kingdoms)source
  • 937Zhang Yanlang, Chinese officialsource
  • 973Ekkehard I, Frankish monk and poetsource
  • 1044Adelaide I, abbess of Quedlinburgsource
  • 1092Vratislaus II, the first king of Bohemia, dies after a 6½-year reign and is succeeded by his brother Conrad I who becomes duke and not king because Vratislaus was elevated to the royal dignity 'for life' by Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (in 1085). Conrad dies September 6 after a 8-month reign and is succeeded by his nephew Bretislav II (the eldest son of Vratislaus).source
  • 1092Vratislaus II, duke and king of Bohemiasource
  • 1163King Ladislaus II of Hungary (born 1131)source
  • 1191Berno, German missionary and bishopsource
  • 1200Odo of Novara, Italian priest and saint (born 1105)source
  • 1224Xuan Zong, Chinese emperor (born 1163)source
  • 1224Emperor Xuan Zong of the Chinese Jurchen-led Jin dynasty dies after a 10-year reign. He is succeeded by his 25-year-old son, Ai Zong, who conquers more Song territory during the Jin–Song Wars.source
  • 1236Sava ("the Enlightener"), Serbian archbishopsource
  • 1300Isabella of Lusignan, French noblewoman (born 1224)source
  • 1301Andrew III ("Andrew the Venetian"), king of Hungary (born 1265)source
  • 1331Odoric of Pordenone, Italian missionary friar and explorer (born c. 1280)source
  • 1465Thomas Beckington, English statesman and prelatesource
  • 1476Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter, Duchess of York, second child of Richard Plantagenet (born 1439)source
  • 1476John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (born 1444)source
  • 1555Jacques Dubois, anatomist (born 1478)source
  • 1631Charlotte of the Palatinate, German noble (born 1628)source
  • 1640Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (born 1578)source
  • 1659In the Battle of the Lines of Elvas, fought near the small city of Elvas in Portugal during the Portuguese Restoration War, the Spanish Army under the command of Luis Méndez de Haro suffers heavy casualties, with over 11,000 of its nearly 16,000 soldiers killed, wounded or taken prisoner; the smaller Portuguese force of 10,500 troops, commanded by André de Albuquerque Ribafria (who is killed in the battle) suffers less than 900 casualties.source
  • 1701Tokugawa Mitsukuni, daimyō (born 1628)source
  • 1705Madame d'Aulnoy (born 1650)source
  • 1742Edmond Halley dies; James Bradley succeeds him as Astronomer Royal of Great Britain.source
  • 1742Edmond Halley, astronomer (born 1656)source
  • 1744Henrich Suhm, naval officer and colonial administrator (born 1693)source
  • 1752Devasahayam Pillai, beatified Indian Catholic (born 1712)source
  • 1753George Berkeley, Irish-born philosopher and bishop (born 1685)source
  • 1766King Frederick V of Denmark (born 1723)source
  • 1766Frederick V, Danish king (born 1723)source
  • 1776Edward Cornwallis, British military officer, first Governor of Nova Scotia (born 1713)source
  • 1856Janko Drašković, Croatian politician, reformer (born 1770)source
  • 1867Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (born 1780)source
  • 1874Johann Philipp Reis, German scientist, inventor (born 1834)source
  • 1889Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel, politician (born 1813)source
  • 1892Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, second in line for the throne of the United Kingdom (born 1864)source
  • 1898Lewis Carroll, British writer, mathematician (Alice in Wonderland) (born 1832)source
  • 1905Ernst Abbe, German physicist (born 1840)source
  • 1957Humphrey Bogart, American actor (born 1899)source
  • 1966Sergei Korolev, Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (born 1907)source