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May 14 in history

230 sourced entries recorded on May 14, from 649 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 1004Henry II is crowned King of Italy by Archbishop Arnulf II in Pavia. A quarrel ensues between the German troops and the Pavese citizens. Henry orders a massacre of the population in response, destroying the city.source
  • 1027King Robert II of France ("the Pious") sues for peace with his sons. Henry I is crowned co-king of France at Reims Cathedral, but has little power to rule (until 1031).source
  • 1097Siege of Nicaea: The Crusaders begin their campaign with the siege of Nicaea (the capital of the Sultanate of Rum), assigning their forces to different sections of the walls, which are well-defended with 200 towers. Towards the end, an advance party of the Seljuk Turks is defeated by troops of Raymond IV of Toulouse ("Saint-Gilles") and Robert II.source
  • 1141Sephardi Jewish philosopher Judah Halevi sets off from Alexandria on a pilgrimage to Palestine.source
  • 1188Saladin begins a campaign and marches north but finds Tripoli too strong to be besieged. He decides to take other Crusader fortifications and signs an 8-month truce with Prince Bohemond III of Antioch.source
  • 1226At the age of 11, Queen Isabella (Zabel), daughter of the dead King Leo, is formally crowned as the Queen of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, in a ceremony at the Armenian capital, Sis.source
  • 1264Battle of Lewes: English rebels led by Simon de Montfort defeat Henry III and Prince Edward ("the Lord Edward"), at Lewes. Henry leaves the safety of Lewes Castle and St. Pancras Priory, to engage the rebels. Edward routes part of the rebel army (some 5,000 men) with a cavalry charge, but during the battle de Montfort's forces capture both Henry and Edward, making Simon the "uncrowned king of England" for 15 months.source
  • 1287Nayan, Mongol prince of the Borjigin clan, revolts against the rule of Kublai Khan. Kublai leads a punitive expedition against Nayan in Manchuria and defeats his forces on July 16.source
  • 1313In Poland, Bolko II of Opole and his brother Albert of Strzelce become the new rulers of Opole and Upper Silesia upon the death of their father, Bolko I.source
  • 1314In Italy, more than 50 of the Fraticelli spiritualists of the Franciscan order of Tuscany are excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by the Archbishop of Genoa after refusing to return to obedience to the Pope.source
  • 1385The two-day Battle of Sluys concludes on the North Sea off of the coast of the Netherlands as England's Royal Navy, led by the Admiral, Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester attempts to blockade the Flemish port of Sluis and more than 100 ships stationed there. Jean de Vienne, Admiral of France, makes a successful counter-attack and the Royal Navy ships sail back to England to defend London.source
  • 1413The first Parliament of King Henry V assembles at Westminster.source
  • 1419The Treaty of Torun ends the war between the Teutonic Knights and the Polish and Lithuanian Kingdom.source
  • 1430The French first attempt to relieve the Siege of Compiègne.source
  • 1430The French first attempt to relieve the siege of Compiègne during the Hundred Years Warsource
  • 1448The Siege of Svetigrad is started by the Ottoman Sultan Murad II against an Albanian fortress at Svetigrad, now Kodžadžik in North Macedonia. After two and a half months, the siege is successful in capturing the fortress.source
  • 1449Second Siege of Sfetigrad (1449): The Albanian garrison surrenders and the Ottomans seize the fortress.source
  • 1465The Moroccan Revolt in Fez ousts the Marinid rulers, and leads to the killing of many Jews.source
  • 1474Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, begins peace talks with rebels in the Electorate of Cologne in hopes of bringing an agreement that would make the Electorate a protectorate of Burgundy. The talks fail to get a result and Charles begins a war against Colognian cities a month later.source
  • 1478The Siege of Shkodra in Albania begins. Federico Gonzaga becomes the new ruler of the independent Duchy of Mantua in Italy, three days after the death of his father, Ludovico III.source
  • 1496At Augsburg, Maximilian, King of the Romans, grants an audience to Sir Christopher Urswick, the Kingdom of England's ambassador to the Empire, and informs his advisers that he believes the Ambassador is a spy gathering intelligence on the Empire's intentions toward England. Zacharia Contarini, the Empire's ambassador to France, then sends the report to the Doge of the Republic of Venice, Agostino Barbarigo.source
  • 1506Theologian Thomas Bricot awarded King Louis XII the honorary title of "Father of the People-Le Père du Peuple" during an assembly of the Estates at Plessis.source
  • 1507In Italy, King Louis XII of France departs from Genoa and makes a triumphant entry into Milan on May 24.source
  • 1507In Italy, King Louis XII departs from Genoa and makes a triumphant entry into Milan on May 24.source
  • 1507Lorenzo Lotto's painting, the Santa Cristina al Tiverone Altarpiece, is unveiled at the Church of Santa Cristina in the Italian city of Treviso.source
  • 1509Battle of Agnadello: French forces defeat the Venetians. The League of Cambrai occupies Venice's mainland territories.source
  • 1525May 14–15 – German Peasants' War: Battle of Frankenhausen – Insurgent peasants led by radical pastor Thomas Müntzer are defeated. Following the defeat, Müntzer is executed in front of the gates of Mühlhausen.source
  • 1536Thomas Cranmer declares Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn to be null and void.source
  • 1576Tahmasp I, the Shah of Safavid Iran for almost 52 years, is accidentally poisoned after being treated by the palace physician, Abu Naser Gilani. Tahmasp's death is followed by a deadly struggle for control of Iran.source
  • 1594After almost two years of being closed because of bubonic plague, theaters in England are allowed to reopen, as the Admiral's Men stage a performance of The Jew of Malta.source
  • 1607Jamestown, Virginia, is established as the first permanent English settlement in North America, beginning the American frontier.source
  • 1608The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.source
  • 1610Henry IV, King of France, is fatally stabbed by François Ravaillac during a parade marking the recent coronation of his wife; he is succeeded by his 8-year-old son Louis.source
  • 1613The ruler of the principality of Martaban, Binnya Dala, surrenders to the armies of King Anaukpetlun of Burma.source
  • 1613The city of Hanthawaddy (now Bago) is restored as the capital of Burma by King Anaukpetlun, who relocates the government from Ava (now Inwa).source
  • 1614An earthquake strikes the Azores islands and levels the village of Vila Franca do Campo.source
  • 1629May 14–28 – Huguenot rebellions: After a 15-day siege, Louis XIII of France captures Privas.source
  • 162914 May–28 May – Huguenot rebellions: After a 15-day siege, Louis XIII captures Privas.source
  • 1636William Pynchon and his men establish the settlement of Agawam Plantation (now Springfield, Massachusetts) in territory controlled by the Agawam people, a subset of the Algonquian peoples, and negotiate for its purchase for Britain's Connecticut Colony. The Agawams deed the land to Connecticut on July 15, and the area is later deeded by Connecticut to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.source
  • 1639Charles issues a further proclamation promising to settle the Covenanters' grievances and not to invade Scotland.source
  • 1643Louis XIV succeeds his father Louis XIII as King of France at age 4. His rule will last until his death at age 76 in 1715, a total of 72 years, which will be the longest reign of any European monarch in recorded history.source
  • 1660The Irish Parliament declares Charles to be King of Ireland.source
  • 1662Catherine of Braganza lands at Portsmouth.source
  • 1686Joseph Dudley formally begins his tenure, as President of the Council of the newly formed Dominion of New England.source
  • 1702May 14 (N.S.) – War of the Spanish Succession: War is declared on France by the Grand Alliance (Kingdom of England, Dutch Republic and Holy Roman Empire).source
  • 1719In Louisiana (New France), Bienville, from Mobile, captures Pensacola, but Pensacola is later recaptured by the Spanish, and again re-taken by Bienville.source
  • 1738John Wesley hears William Holland read from the work of Martin Luther, occasioning his own conversion.source
  • 1741HMS Wager, one of the vessels of George Anson's voyage around the world, is wrecked on the coast of Chile, killing most of the crew who have survived scurvy.source
  • 1741HMS Wager, one of the vessels of George Anson's voyage around the world is wrecked on the coast of Chile, killing most of the surviving crew.source
  • 1747War of the Austrian Succession – First battle of Cape Finisterre: The British Navy defeats a French fleet.source
  • 1747War of the Austrian Succession: First Battle of Cape Finisterre: British fleet is victorious against the French.source
  • 1752Appin Murder: Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure ("The Red Fox"), 44, who has recently been dispossessing members of the Jacobite Clan Stewart of Appin, is shot in the back in the wood of Lettermore between Ballachulish and Kentallen. The chief suspect, Alan Breck Stewart, having fled to France, James Stewart of the Glen is found guilty "in art and part" (as an accessory to the crime) at Inveraray by a judge and jury entirely from Clan Campbell and hanged on 8 November at Cnap a' Chaolais above the narrows at Ballachulish.source
  • 1754The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is founded in Scotland.source
  • 1754The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is founded as the Society of St Andrews Golfers, a group of players on St Andrews Links.source
  • 1754The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is founded in Scotland; it will come to control the rules of golf.source
  • 1762Charles Macklin's The True-Born Irishman is first performed at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin.source
  • 1768In Dublin, a concert takes place for the benefit of "Jones", a resident of Britain Street, where music will be performed on "that most admired instrument, the Welsh Harp".source
  • 1769Charles III of Spain sends Spanish missionaries, who found California missions in San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Monterey, and begin the settlement of California.source
  • 1779First running of The Oaks horse race.source
  • 1784Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, is created Baron Bulkeley.source
  • 1787In Philadelphia, delegates begin arriving for a Constitutional Convention.source
  • 1787In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin arriving to write a new Constitution for the United States.source
  • 1794Hambletonian wins his first race. He will win every subsequent race he finishes in his career.source
  • 1796Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination, in England.source
  • 1796Edward Jenner successfully administers the smallpox vaccine to James Phipps in Gloucestershire.source
  • 1798HMS Nautilus arrives in Sydney, carrying missionaries from the London Missionary Society .source
  • 1800Second Coalition: French forces under General Louis-Alexandre Berthier are halted by 400 Austro-Piedmont soldiers, at Fort Bard in the Aosta Valley.source
  • 1803Illegal Masonic meeting held in Sydney and all participants arrested.source
  • 1804The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.source
  • 1804The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois near St. Louis and begins their journey by traveling up the Missouri River.source
  • 1804Cork Street Fever Hospital, Dublin, opens in Cork Street, Dublin.source
  • 1811Paraguay declares independence from the Spanish Empire (recognised May 15).source
  • 1819the first all iron-hulled vessel, the barge Vulcan, is launched on the Monkland Canal at Faskine, Airdrie for use as a horse-drawn passenger boat between Edinburgh and Glasgow on the Forth and Clyde Canal.source
  • 1829Aboriginal mission on Bruny Island opened by George Augustus Robinson.source
  • 1836Texas Revolution: The Treaties of Velasco are signed, between Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna and the Republic of Texas. In exchange for his freedom and the guarantee of free passage back to Mexico, General Santa Anna gives his recognition to the independence of Texas. The Mexican government refuses to ratify the treaties.source
  • 1841Irish navvies Dennis Doolan and Patrick Redding are hanged at Crosshill, Bishopbriggs (near Glasgow and site of the later Cadder Yard), the location at which they participated in the murder of ganger John Green on the works of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway on 10 December 1840.source
  • 1854May 5–15 – Hokkien–Teochew Riots in Singapore.source
  • 1856The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance is founded in the United States. It lynches two gangsters, arrests most Democratic Party officials, and disbands itself on August 18.source
  • 1858David Livingstone's 6-year Second Zambesi expedition arrives at the African coast.source
  • 1861The Canellas meteorite, an 859 gram chondrite type meteorite, strikes Earth near Barcelona, Spain.source
  • 1863American Civil War: Battle of Jackson, Mississippi – Union General Ulysses S. Grant defeats Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston, opening the way for the siege of Vicksburg.source
  • 1864Bushranger Frank Gardiner is sentenced to 32 years in prison, although he is later pardoned by Henry Parkes in 1874.source
  • 1864The Orgueil meteorite falls to earth.source
  • 1868May 10–14 – Boshin War – Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, Japan: Forces of the Emperor Meiji resist the retreating troops of the Tokugawa shogunate.source
  • 1870The first rugby match is played in New Zealand, between the Nelson Football Club and Nelson College.source
  • 1872The Battle of Mañaria, near Bilbao, Spain during the Third Carlist War (1872–1876).source
  • 1873The Ohrigstad area is proclaimed a public gold field after gold is discovered in the Selati River.source
  • 1874First admission charge at a football game: Harvard beats University of McGill (Montreal) 3–0.source
  • 1878Paul Kruger leads a second deputation to the United Kingdom to demand the freedom of the South African Republic.source
  • 1878Salem witchcraft trial, the last of its kind in the U.S., opens in Salem, Massachusetts.source
  • 1879The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji, aboard the Leonidas.source
  • 1887The cornerstone of the new Stanford University, in northern California, is laid (the college opens in 1891).source
  • 1894Blackpool Tower is opened in Blackpool, in north-west England, as a visitor attraction.source
  • 1896Parish of St Anthony of Padua established in newly expanded Heirnis section of Ghent.source
  • 1897Pigeon post is introduced between Auckland and Great Barrier Island.source
  • 1897May 10 – 19 zinc miners die of carbon monoxide poisoning at Snaefell Mine on the Isle of Man.source
  • 1897The Stars and Stripes Forever, an American patriotic march by John Philip Sousa, is performed for the first time.source
  • 1897(or May 15) – The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK) is founded in Berlin as an LGBT campaigning organization, the first such in history.source
  • 1898Bread riots continue in various areas in Italy, such as Naples and Pontedera, with several people killed.source
  • 1899Prime Minister Pelloux resigns over his Chinese policy. Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Felice Napoleone Canevaro had demanded that the Chinese Empire grant it a lease for a naval coaling station at China's Sanmen Bay (known as "San-Mun Bay" to the Italians) similar to the lease the German Empire had secured in 1898 at Kiautschou Bay. China refused to comply and Italy had to withdraw its ultimatum, becoming the first and only Western power to fail to achieve its territorial goals in China. The fiasco was an embarrassment that gave Italy – still stung by its defeat at the hands of the Ethiopian Empire in the Battle of Adowa in 1896 – the appearance of a third-rate power. Pelloux and his fellow cabinet ministers stated that Canevaro had acted without informing them, and it was widely believed that king Umberto I was the one who had given Canevaro the orders to acquire a concession in China. Pelloux forms a new government, the most decisively conservative since 1876, without Canevaro.source
  • 1899The three time world champion Club Nacional de Football is founded in Montevideo, Uruguay.source
  • 1900The second Olympic Games, Paris 1900, open (as part of the Paris World Exhibition).source
  • 1900October 28 - Argentina participates for the first time in the Olympic Games.source
  • 190014 May – 28 October – The 1900 Summer Olympics takes place in Paris, France. Germany finishes seventh in the overall medal table with four gold medals, two silver and two bronze.source
  • 1904SS Scharnhorst (passenger liner)source
  • 1908October 31 – The Franco-British Exhibition (1908) is held in London.source
  • 1910The Japan–British Exhibition opens at White City, London, the largest international exposition the Empire of Japan had participated in up to that time.source
  • 1911May 13–15 – Mexican Revolution: Torreón massacre – Over 300 Chinese residents are massacred by the revolutionary forces of Francisco I. Madero, in the Mexican city of Torreón.source
  • 1911Giovanni "Ernesto" Ceirano wins the 1911 Targa Florio endurance automobile race on Sicily.source
  • 1912Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec expand to the northsource
  • 1913New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100,000,000 donation from John D. Rockefeller.source
  • 1918The Three Minute Pause, initiated by the daily firing of the Noon Gun on Signal Hill, is instituted by Cape Town Mayor Sir Harry Hands. It will inspire the introduction of the two-minute silence in November 1919.source
  • 1919The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, establishes probably the world's first chair in International Politics, endowed by David Davies and his sisters in honour of Woodrow Wilson, with Alfred Eckhard Zimmern as first professor.source
  • 1921May 14–15 – The major May 1921 geomagnetic storm occurs.source
  • 1926May 12–14 – May Coup: Józef Piłsudski takes over in Poland.source
  • 1926May 11–14 – Roald Amundsen makes the first airship flight over the North Pole. The Norge leaves Spitsbergen and arrives in Teller, Alaska three days later.source
  • 1935Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proves to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win is not until May 29, 1939.source
  • 1939Lina Medina, a 5-year-old Peruvian girl, gives birth to a baby boy, becoming the youngest confirmed mother in medical history.source
  • 1941The minesweeper HMNZS Puriri was sunk by a mine while sweeping in the Hauraki Gulf, and sank with the death of five of her crew.source
  • 1943The 358th Bombardment Squadron, 303d Bombardment Group B-17F Hell's Angels is the first USAAF bomber to complete 25 missions.source
  • 1943Australian Hospital Ship Centaur is sunk off the coast of Queensland by Japanese submarine I-177, killing 268 of the 332 medical personnel and civilian crew aboard.source
  • 1943The hospital ship AHS Centaur is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine off North Stradbroke Island in Queensland, killing 268 people.source
  • 1946Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois is founded.source
  • 1948The Israeli Declaration of Independence is made. David Ben-Gurion becomes the first prime minister, a provisional position that will become formalized on February 14, 1949.source
  • 1948The Israeli Declaration of Independence is made in Tel Aviv, a few hours before the British Mandate is due to expire. At midnight the British Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated and the State of Israel comes into being.source
  • 1950The Huntsville Times runs the headline "Dr. von Braun Says Rocket Flights Possible to Moon."source
  • 1954The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict is adopted in The Hague, Netherlands.source
  • 1954The Boeing 367-80, prototype for the later Boeing 707 jetliner, is rolled out in the United States, after about 2 years of development.source
  • 1955Eight Communist Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty in Warsaw, Poland, that is called the Warsaw Pact (it will be dissolved in 1991).source
  • 1957Yitzhak Harel, CEO of Israel Railways and former major general in the IDF.source
  • 1959Bjørn Ousland, comics writer.source
  • 1960The Kenya African National Union (KANU) is founded in Kenya, when 3 political parties join forces.source
  • 1961Civil rights movement: A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob of Ku Klux Klan members.source
  • 1962Dov Karmi (born 1905), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli architect.source
  • 1962Milovan Đilas is given a further sentence in Yugoslavia, for publishing Conversations with Stalin.source
  • 1962Juan Carlos of Spain marries the Greek Princess Sophia in Athens.source
  • 1969Colonel Muammar Gaddafi visits Mecca, Saudi Arabia.source
  • 1970Jackson State killings: In the second day of violent demonstrations at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing 2 and injuring 12.source
  • 1970Ulrike Meinhof helps Andreas Baader escape and create the Red Army Faction in West Germany which exists until 1998.source
  • 1973Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.source
  • 1977An IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash in Lusaka, Zambia, kills all six on board.source
  • 1980The Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador.source
  • 1984The one-dollar coin is introduced in Australia.source
  • 1989Mikhail Gorbachev visits China, the first Soviet leader to do so since Nikita Khrushchev in the 1960s, ending the Sino-Soviet split.source
  • 1989Mikhail Gorbachev visits China, ending the Sino-Soviet split.source
  • 1989May 12–25 – San Bernardino train disaster: Southern Pacific freight locomotive SP 7551 East derails in a residential area of San Bernardino, California, killing four and destroying seven houses. On May 25, as a direct result of the derailment, the Calnev Pipeline explodes, killing an additional two people and destroying eleven more houses and 21 cars.source
  • 1993The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico is founded.source
  • 1995The Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, but 3 days later the boy is detained by Chinese authorities and not seen again.source
  • 1998May 13–14 – Riots directed against Chinese Indonesians break out in Indonesia, killing around 1,000 people. Maria Catarina Sumarsih holds Prabowo Subianto the responsibility for being involved in a series of human rights abuses during the riot.source
  • 1999The fully renovated St George's Market in Belfast reopens its doors.source
  • 1999June 20 – The 1999 Cricket World Cup is held in England, (some matches in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands), with Australia defeating Pakistan in the final.source
  • 2002Kaluchak massacre: Militants attack a bus and an Indian army camp in Kaluchak, Jammu and Kashmir, killing 31 people and escalating the India–Pakistan standoff.source
  • 2004May 12–15 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2004 takes place in Istanbul, Turkey, and is won by Ukrainian entrant Ruslana with the song "Wild Dances".source
  • 2006The Israeli Navy intercepted a Palestinian boat carrying a large amount of explosives near the Gaza Strip in an attempted smuggling operation. The boat contained about 450 kg of TNT and parts of mines.source
  • 2009The South Korean Navy destroyer Mummu the Great and the U.S. Navy cruiser Gettysburg capture 17 suspected Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.source
  • 2009May 11–15 – Pope Benedict XVI visits the Palestinian territories and Israel. During his visit, the pope condemned Holocaust denials and called for cooperation between the Palestinians and Israelis.source
  • 2009May 11–24 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope on May 11, landing at Edwards Air Force Base May 24.source
  • 2009May 12–16 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 takes place in Moscow, Russia, and is won by Norwegian entrant Alexander Rybak with the song "Fairytale".source
  • 2010Chad gives The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to information about its nuclear programs and involvements.source
  • 2011May 10–14 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2011 takes place in Düsseldorf, Germany, and is won by Azeri entrants Ell & Nikki with the song "Running Scared".source
  • 2013May 14–18 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2013 takes place in Malmö, Sweden, and is won by Danish entrant Emmelie de Forest with the song "Only Teardrops".source
  • 2014According to a South Korea Unification Ministry report, a twenty-three story apartment building collapsed in Pyongchon-guyok, Pyongyang, North Korea (DPR of Korea), with more than 490 fatalities estimated.source
  • 2014May 13–19 – 2014 Southeast Europe floods. 57 deaths in Serbia.source
  • 2016May 10–14 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2016 is held in Stockholm, Sweden, and is won by Ukrainian entrant Jamala with the song "1944".source
  • 2019May 14–18 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 takes place in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is won by Dutch entrant Duncan Laurence with the song "Arcade".source
  • 2020NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance is "ready to support" the UN-recognized Government of National Accord in Libya while Greece, a member state of NATO, strongly criticizes Stoltenberg's remarks, saying his recognition of the "Muslim Brotherhood government" does not reflect the positions of the military alliance.source
  • 2020The UN warns of a global mental health crisis caused by isolation, fear, uncertainty and economic turmoil.source
  • 2021The China National Space Administration lands its Zhurong rover at Utopia Planitia on Mars, making China the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the planet and only the second to land a rover.source
  • 2021Eid Al Fitr holiday, Muslim ″Breaking of the Fast″.source
  • 2022May 10–May 14 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 is held in Turin, Italy. The contest is won by Ukrainian folk-rap group Kalush Orchestra with their song "Stefania".source
  • 2023The 49th G7 summit takes place in Hiroshima, Japan. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives in Japan on the second day of the summit.source
  • 2025May 13–17 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 is held in Basel, Switzerland. Austrian contestant JJ wins with the song "Wasted Love".source

Births

  • 1316Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1378)source
  • 1481Ruprecht of the Palatinate, German bishop (died 1504)source
  • 1553Margaret of Valois, Queen of France (died 1615)source
  • 1626Willem Joseph van Ghent, Dutch admiral (died 1672)source
  • 1657Sambhaji, Maratha ruler (died 1689)source
  • 1665Hans Seidelin, civil servant and landowner (died 1740)source
  • 1666Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (died 1732)source
  • 1680Michael Bille, admiral (died 1756)source
  • 1699Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (died 1786)source
  • 1700Mary Delany, English artist (died 1788)source
  • 1710Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (died 1771)source
  • 1727Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (died 1788)source
  • 1771Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (died 1858)source
  • 1885Otto Klemperer, German conductor (died 1973)source
  • 1907Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (died 1974)source
  • 1922Franjo Tuđman, first President of Croatia (died 1999)source
  • 1944George Lucas, American film director and producersource
  • 1953Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodiasource
  • 1969Cate Blanchett, Australian actresssource
  • 2005Dario Naamo, footballersource

Deaths

  • 649Pope Theodore I dies after a 7-year reign, in which he has shown generosity to the poor. He is succeeded on July 5 by Martin I as the 74th pope.source
  • 649Pope Theodore I, Jerusalem-born Greek pontiffsource
  • 934Zhu Hongzhao, Chinese general and governorsource
  • 934Feng Yun, Chinese chancellor (approximate date)source
  • 964John XII, pope of the Catholic Churchsource
  • 964Pope John XII dies (rumoured to be by apoplexy, or at the hands of a cuckolded husband, during an illicit sexual liaison) after a 9-year reign. The Romans elect Benedict V, who is acclaimed by the city militia. He begins his pontificate as the 131st pope of the Catholic Church.source
  • 1080Walcher, bishop of Durhamsource
  • 1080Walcher, bishop of Durham, is killed by rebel Northumbrians. King William the Conqueror sends a punitive expedition led by his half-brother Odo of Bayeux to pacify Northumbria.source
  • 1219William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (born 1146)source
  • 1313Bolko I, Polish nobleman and co-ruler (House of Piast) (born 1258)source
  • 1491Filippo Strozzi the Elder, Italian banker (born 1428)source
  • 1493Nannina de' Medici, member of de' Medici family (born 1448)source
  • 1574Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (born 1479)source
  • 1576Tahmasp I, Shah of Persia (born 1514)source
  • 1602Niels Krag, academic and diplomat (born 1550)source
  • 1603Pope Gabriel VIII of Alexandria, leader of the Coptic Christian Church, dies after a reign of almost 16 years. He is succeeded by Pope Mark V.source
  • 1607Lauge Beck, landholder, judge and royal treasurer (born c. 1530)source
  • 1610King Henry IV of France, (assassinated) (born 1553)source
  • 1610King Henry IV of France is assassinated in Paris by François Ravaillac, a French Catholic activist who resents the Protestant monarch's decision to launch a war against the Catholic Spanish Netherlands. Ravaillac rushes up to a horse-drawn carriage and stabs King Henry in the chest. Henry's 8-year-old son becomes King Louis XIII, with Henry's widow, Marie de' Medici, governing France as queen regent.source
  • 1610King Henry IV of France, assassinated (born 1553)source
  • 1631Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, is beheaded on Tower Hill, London, and attainted for sodomy and for assisting in the rape of his wife following a leading case which admits the right of a spouse claiming to be injured to testify against her husband.source
  • 1643King Louis XIII of France (born 1601)source
  • 1692Robert Kirk, Scottish folklorist, Bible translator, Gaelic scholar (born 1644)source
  • 1761Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (born 1710)source
  • 1769Iyoas I, Emperor of Ethiopia.source
  • 1847Fanny Hensel, German composer, pianist (born 1805)source
  • 1878Ōkubo Toshimichi, Japanese samurai, later leader of the Meiji restoration (born 1830)source
  • 1881Mary Seacole, British nurse (born 1805)source
  • 1887Lysander Spooner, American philosopher and abolitionist (born 1808)source
  • 1906Carl Schurz, German revolutionary, American statesman (born 1829)source
  • 1912August Strindberg, Swedish playwright and painter (born 1849)source
  • 1935Magnus Hirschfeld, German sex researcher, gay rights advocate (born 1868)source
  • 1940Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (born 1869)source
  • 1940Rotterdam is subjected to savage terror bombing by the Luftwaffe; 980 are killed, and 20,000 buildings destroyed. General Henri Winkelman announces the surrender of the Dutch army (outside Zeeland) to German forces.source
  • 1954Heinz Guderian, German World War II general (born 1888)source
  • 1985Anuradhapura massacre: 146 civilians are killed in Anuradhapura during a massacre carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. This was the largest massacre of Sinhalese civilians by the LTTE to date.source
  • 1991Jiang Qing, 77, Chinese actress and politician, widow of Mao Zedong, suicide by hanging.source
  • 1998Frank Sinatra, 82, American singer ("My Way", "That's Life") and actor (From Here to Eternity), Oscar winner (1954), heart attack.source