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November 14 in history

193 sourced entries recorded on November 14, from 332 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 332 BCEAlexander is crowned as pharaoh of Upper and Lower Egypt – god and king all at once – son of Ra and Osiris, Horus the "Golden One" and beloved of Amun.source
  • 435Emperor Theodosius II orders a new edict for the death penalty of all heretics and pagans in the Empire. Judaism is considered a legal non-Christian religion.source
  • 1202November 10–24 – Siege of Zara: The Crusaders under Boniface of Montferrat besiege and conquer Zara (modern-day Zadar) in Dalmatia. Despite letters from Innocent III forbidding such an action, and threatening excommunication. The leading citizens of Zara hang banners of crosses along the outer walls, professing their Catholic faith. Nevertheless, the Crusaders breach and sack the city, killing many.source
  • 1416China's Emperor Cheng Zu and his fleet return to Nanjing from his fourth expedition for treasure after having been away since 1413.source
  • 1475The original Landshut Wedding takes place, between George, Duke of Bavaria, and Hedwig Jagiellon.source
  • 1501Arthur, Prince of Wales, marries the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon.source
  • 1535Spanish colonial administrator Antonio de Mendoza is appointed as the first Viceroy of New Spain, with jurisdiction on behalf of King Carlos of Spain over a large area of what is now Mexico and the southwestern United States, from California to Louisiana, the state of Florida, most of Central America and the Caribbean, the northern parts of South America, the Philippines and Guam.source
  • 1535Voters in the Republic of Geneva approve the merger of the city's seven charitable establishments into a single entity, the Hôpital généralsource
  • 1546The Treaty of Prague is signed between King Ferdinand of Bohemia and Maurice, Elector of Saxony with Ferdinand agreeing not to give shelter in Bohemia to John Ferdinand I, the former Elector of Saxony, who is under an Imperial ban.source
  • 1569The siege of Varberg Castle by Denmark ends after three days of shelling the Swedish defenders.source
  • 1572Residents of the Belgian city of Zutphen are massacred by the Spanish Army.source
  • 1587Davide Vacca is elected to a two-year term as the new Doge of the Republic of Genoa in Italy in a vote by the Grand Council of the Republic.source
  • 1616In England, Sir Edward Coke is dismissed as Chief Justice of the King's Bench by royal prerogative.source
  • 1617L’Union de la Boîte was founded.source
  • 1636French recapture Corbie from the Spanishsource
  • 1636French forces retake Corbie.source
  • 1643Empress Meishō abdicates and Emperor Go-Kōmyō accedes to the throne of Japan.source
  • 1659Battle of Nyborg took place on the island of Funen, Denmark. This decisive engagement saw an allied army of Danish, Imperial, and Brandenburgian forces defeat the Swedish army. The Polish cavalry, under Colonel Kazimierz Piaseczyński, played a crucial role in the allied victory. The Swedish forces, estimated at around 7,000, suffered heavy losses, with many either killed or surrendering after intense fighting. This defeat significantly weakened Sweden's position in Denmark.source
  • 1665The King's Law or Lex Regia (Danish and Norwegian: Kongeloven) was introduced.source
  • 1673Christopher Wren is knighted in England.source
  • 1680The Great Comet of 1680 is first sighted by Gottfried Kirch, the first comet discovered by telescope.source
  • 1693General Santaji Ghorpade of the Maratha Empire in India is defeated by General Himmat Khan of the Mughal Empire near Vikramhalli, and retreats. A week later, after regrouping his troops, Santaji defeats Himmat at their next encounter.source
  • 1698The Spanish king Carlos names his grandson Jozef Ferdinand as his heir.source
  • 1698first Eddystone Lighthouse illuminated.source
  • 1698The first Eddystone Lighthouse, built off Plymouth, England, is illuminated.source
  • 1715Battle of Preston: Government forces defeat the Jacobite incursion, at the conclusion of a five-day siege and action.source
  • 1740The University of Pennsylvania is officially established.source
  • 1751The 50-day long siege of the British fort of Trichinopoly (now Tiruchirappalli) in southern India is broken when the defenders use musket fire to force a stampede of the elephants of the French-backed troops of Chanda Sahib.source
  • 1767The Timucua Indian tribe, native to central Florida, becomes extinct with the death of the last speaker of the Timucuan language, Juan Alonso Cabale. Eight years earlier, the last 95 surviving Timucuan people had been forcibly relocated by the Spanish colonial government to Guanabacoa, a township in western Cuba.source
  • 1770Scottish explorer James Bruce is shown the source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.source
  • 1770James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.source
  • 1784Samuel Seabury is consecrated at the house of John Skinner, coadjutor bishop of Aberdeen, as first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut (his native state), the first bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.source
  • 1794The first recorded meeting of the Franklin Literary Society is held at Canonsburg Academy (modern-day Washington & Jefferson College).source
  • 1834William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne becomes the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to be dismissed by the British monarch. King William IV temporarily appoints Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, to form a caretaker government.source
  • 1848Opening of the North Wales County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (North Wales Hospital), Denbigh.source
  • 1851Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick; or The Whale is published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers, New York, after being first published on October 18 in London, by Richard Bentley, in three volumes as The Whale.source
  • 1854Great Storm of 1854 in the Black Sea: 19 British transport and other ships (plus 2 French) supporting the Crimean War are wrecked with the loss of at least 287 men.source
  • 1854Great Storm of 1854 in the Black Sea: 19 British transport and other ships supporting the Crimean War are wrecked with the loss of at least 287 men.source
  • 1862President Abraham Lincoln approves the plan by General Ambrose Burnside to capture the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia. This plan leads to a disastrous Union defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13.source
  • 1865Jules Bara succeeds Victor Tesch as Minister of Justice.source
  • 1877Henrik Ibsen's first contemporary realist drama The Pillars of Society is premièred at the Odense Teater.source
  • 1882Franklyn Leslie shoots Billy Claiborne dead in the streets of Tombstone, Arizona.source
  • 1883Chile's National Library of Congress is founded.source
  • 1885November 14–28 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Serbia declares war against Bulgaria, but is defeated in the Battle of Slivnitsa on November 17–19.source
  • 1886German inventor Friedrich Soennecken first develops the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.source
  • 1886Friedrich Soennecken files his patent for his holepunch Papierlocher für Sammelmappen.source
  • 1889Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90, offensive on the tribes of the Chin and Lushai Hillssource
  • 1889Pioneer American woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins an attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days, inspired by Jules Verne; she finishes the journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.source
  • 1889Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins an attempt to beat travel around the world in less than 80 days, inspired by Jules Verne; she finishes the journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.source
  • 1899The first aerial crossing of the Mediterranean Sea is made by Louis Capazza and Alphonse Fondère in Capazza's balloon.source
  • 1903End of the lock-out at Penrhyn Quarry near Bethesda (begun 1900), the longest major industrial dispute in British history.source
  • 1908Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the first woman in England to be elected as a mayor (of Aldeburgh).source
  • 1909first tram line opened in Pskovsource
  • 1910In the first takeoff from a ship by a fixed-wing aircraft, Eugene Ely takes off from a temporary platform erected over the bow of the light cruiser USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.source
  • 1914Light cruiser HMS Carysfort is launched at Pembroke Dock.source
  • 1918Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, announces he is ceasing to rule Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, leading to the establishment of the Free State of Coburg and the Free State of Saxe-Gotha.source
  • 1919Russian Civil War, Siberian Front: Admiral Alexander Kolchak's White forces begin the Great Siberian Ice March from the cities of Omsk and Tomsk to Irkutsk, escaping from the victorious Red Army.source
  • 1920The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra holds its first concert, in Alberta.source
  • 1921The Spanish Communist Party is founded.source
  • 1922The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom, broadcasting from station 2LO in London.source
  • 1923The poet William Butler Yeats became the first Irish Nobel prize laureate when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.source
  • 19251925 Australian federal election: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Matthew Charlton.source
  • 1925The first Surrealist art exhibition opens in Paris.source
  • 1927Pittsburgh gasometer explosion: Three Equitable Gas storage tanks in the North Side of Pittsburgh explode, killing 26 people and causing damage estimated between $4.0 million and $5.0 million.source
  • 1928the Afghan Civil War begins as rebels besiege Jalalabad.source
  • 1928November 9 – 16 – Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness (published on 27 July by Jonathan Cape in London, England) is tried and convicted on the grounds of obscenity due to its theme of lesbian love, following a newspaper campaign.source
  • 1930Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi is shot inside Tokyo Station by Tomeo Sagoya in a failed assassination attempt. The wounds kept Hamaguchi hospitalized for several months.source
  • 1931November 4–18 - Jiangqiao Campaignsource
  • 19351935 United Kingdom general election: Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin returns to office at the head of a National Government led by the Conservative Party, with a large but reduced majority.source
  • 1935United Kingdom general election.source
  • 1937Harald Stormoen, actor (born 1872)source
  • 1939In Washington, D.C., U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.source
  • 1941The Holocaust: In Slonim (Byelorussian SSR), German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murder 9,000 Jews.source
  • 1941WWII: British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks under tow off Gibraltar, after being torpedoed the previous day by German submarine U-81.source
  • 1941The 5.4 Ms Los Angeles earthquake severely affected the Gardena–Torrance area of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing $1.1 million in financial losses, but no injuries or deaths.source
  • 1943Leonard Bernstein, substituting at the last minute for ailing principal conductor Bruno Walter, directs the New York Philharmonic in its regular Sunday afternoon broadcast concert, over CBS Radio. The event receives front-page coverage in The New York Times the following day.source
  • 1944WWII: American submarine USS Queenfish torpedoes Japanese aircraft carrier Akitsu Maru in the East China Sea; 2,246 drown.source
  • 1945A convention meeting in Dungannon establishes the nationalist Irish Anti-Partition League.source
  • 1952Aldor Ingebrigtsen, politician (born 1888)source
  • 1954Egyptian president Muhammad Naguib is deposed, and Gamal Abdel Nasser replaces him.source
  • 1956An eight-mile long stretch of highway is opened west of Topeka, Kansas, creating the first portion of the Interstate Highway System in the United States and the first highway to be completed with funds from the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956.source
  • 1957Carlos P. Garcia is elected president in the presidential elections.source
  • 1960Belgium threatens to leave the United Nations over criticism of its policy concerning the Republic of the Congo.source
  • 1960Stéblová train disaster: A head-on collision between two trains in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia, kills 118 people.source
  • 1961The Yves Saint Laurent luxury fashion brand is founded in Rue La Boetie, Paris (France), by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé.source
  • 1963A volcanic eruption under the sea near Iceland creates a new island, Surtsey.source
  • 1963The island of Surtsey is formed following a volcanic eruption off the coast of Iceland.source
  • 1965Vietnam War – Battle of Ia Drang: In the Ia Drang Valley of the Central Highlands in Vietnam, the first major engagement of the war between regular United States and North Vietnamese forces begins.source
  • 1969Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean), the second crewed mission to the Moon.source
  • 1969The SS United States, the last active United States Lines passenger ship, is withdrawn from service.source
  • 1970The Soviet Union enters the International Civil Aviation Organization, after having resisted joining the UN Agency for more than 25 years. Russian becomes the fourth official language of the ICAO.source
  • 1971Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria is enthroned.source
  • 1971Fidel Castro visits the Chuquicamata copper mine.source
  • 1972The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.source
  • 1973November 14–17: Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military junta governing the country. The uprising ended in a bloodshed after the intervention of the military.source
  • 1975Madrid Accords: Spain agrees to hand over power of the Spanish Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania by the end of February 1976.source
  • 1979Iran hostage crisis: U.S. President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks in response to the hostage crisis.source
  • 1983The immunosuppressant cyclosporine is approved by the FDA, leading to a revolution in the field of transplantation.source
  • 1990Alitalia Flight 404 crashes on approach to Zurich Airport, killing all 46 occupants.source
  • 1991American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103 over Britain in 1988.source
  • 1991Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after 13 years of exile.source
  • 1992In poor conditions caused by Cyclone Forrest, Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 crashes near Nha Trang, killing 30.source
  • 1994The first Eurostar train passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel.source
  • 1997Iraq expels 6 American weapon inspectors, and the UN orders inspectors from other nationalities to leave the country.source
  • 2001A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes China with an epicenter near Kokoxili, but it occurs in a sparsely populated mountainous region and there are no casualties.source
  • 2003The dwarf planet Sedna is discovered by a team of astronomers led by Michael E. Brown from the Palomar Observatory.source
  • 2004Researchers claim to have found a site that may be a candidate for the lost city of Atlantis on the bottom of the east Mediterranean, 80 kilometers southeast of Cyprus. The Cypriot government disputes the claim, saying more evidence is needed.source
  • 2004November 14–26 – Typhoon Muifa kills 600 people in the Philippines.source
  • 2010Sebastian Vettel became the youngest F1 Champion after a 4 way championship fight.source
  • 2012November 14–21 – Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Palestinian-governed Gaza Strip, killing Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari. In the following week 140 Palestinians and five Israelis are killed in an ensuing cycle of violence. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is announced by Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after the week-long escalation in hostilities in Southern Israel and the Gaza Strip.source
  • 2017Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, leader of the Lebanon-based Maronite Church, makes a rare visit to Saudi Arabia, where he meets with King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The visit comes at a time of high tension between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.source
  • 2019Italy declares a state of emergency in Venice following record flooding.source
  • 2021The 2021 Bulgarian general election is held.source
  • 2022November 6–November 18 – The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) on climate change mitigation takes place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.source
  • 2024Lesotho is granted World Rugby Full Member status by the World Rugby Council.source
  • 2024November 11–22 – COP29 is held in Baku, Azerbaijan.source
  • 2025November 10–21 – The COP30 summit is held in Belém, Brazil, focusing on the role of the Amazon rainforest in climate action.source

Births

  • 1245Sang Sapurba, Indonesian ruler (died 1316)source
  • 1449Sidonie of Poděbrady, Bohemian princess, duchess consort of Saxony (died 1510)source
  • 1487John III of Pernstein, Bohemian land-owner, Governor of Moravia and Count of Kladsko (died 1548)source
  • 1501Anna of Oldenburg, Regent of East Frisia from 1540 to 1561 (died 1575)source
  • 1531Richard Topcliffe, English torturer (died 1604)source
  • 1565Petrus Bertius, Flemish theologian and scientist (died 1629)source
  • 1567Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (died 1625)source
  • 1577François Leclerc du Tremblay. French Frier. (d.1638).source
  • 1601John Eudes, French missionary (died 1680)source
  • 1653Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier, Catholic bishop of Quebec (died 1727)source
  • 1717Alexander Sumarokov, poet, play write (died 1777)source
  • 1719Leopold Mozart, German/Austrian composer, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (died 1787)source
  • 1765Robert Fulton, American inventor (died 1815)source
  • 1771Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and pathologist (died 1802)source
  • 1773Stapleton Stapleton-Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, military leader (died 1865)source
  • 1778Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer, virtuoso pianist (died 1837)source
  • 1779Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (died 1850)source
  • 1797Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (died 1875)source
  • 1805Fanny Hensel, German composer, pianist (died 1847)source
  • 1840Claude Monet, French painter (died 1926)source
  • 1889Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (died 1964)source
  • 1891Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1941)source
  • 1898Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher (died 1944)source
  • 1900Aaron Copland, American composer (died 1990)source
  • 1908Joseph McCarthy, American politician (died 1957)source
  • 1917Park Chung Hee, 3rd president of South Korea (died 1979)source
  • 1922Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General of the United Nations (died 2016)source
  • 1934Catherine McGuinness, President of the Law Reform Commission and former justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland.source
  • 1935King Hussein of Jordan (died 1999)source
  • 1948King Charles III of the United Kingdomsource
  • 1954Condoleezza Rice, American politician, 66th United States Secretary of Statesource

Deaths

  • 518Gao, Chinese empress dowager of Northern Wei (murdered)source
  • 565Justinian I, emperor of the Byzantine Empiresource
  • 669Kamatari, Japanese statesman and reformer, receives the surname Fujiwara from Emperor Tenji as a reward for his services, but dies in Yamato prefecture (modern-day Sakurai City). [Significance of this event is unclear]source
  • 669Fujiwara no Kamatari, founder of the Fujiwara clan (born 614)source
  • 683Caliph Yazid I dies at Damascus, after a 3-year reign marked by civil war. He is succeeded by his son Muawiya II as ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate.source
  • 940Abu'l-Fadl al-Bal'ami, Samanid viziersource
  • 976Emperor Taizu (Zhao Kuangyin) dies at Kaifeng after a 16-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Tai Zong as ruler of the Song Dynasty. During his rule the Yuelu Academy (located in Hunan Province) is founded, which becomes one of the renowned academies (Shūyuàn).source
  • 976Taizu, Chinese emperor (born 927)source
  • 1044Thietmar of Hildesheim, German bishopsource
  • 1060Geoffrey II, count of Anjousource
  • 1180Lorcán Ua Tuathail, Irish archbishop (born 1128)source
  • 1210Qutb al-Din Aibak, Indian ruler (born 1150)source
  • 1229Martin of Pattishall, English chief justicesource
  • 1263Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorodsource
  • 1346Ostasio I da Polenta, Lord of Ravenna (assassinated)source
  • 1432Anne of Burgundy, Duchess of Bedford (born 1404)source
  • 1442Yolande of Aragon, politically active French noblewoman (born 1384)source
  • 1522Anne of France, Princess and Regent of France (born 1461)source
  • 1539Hugh Cook Faringdon, English Abbot of Readingsource
  • 1615John Leveson, English politician (born 1555)source
  • 1622Miler Magrath, Irish Catholic priest (born 1523)source
  • 1633William Ames, English philosopher (born 1576)source
  • 1659Colonel Kazimierz Piaseczyński, a Polish military commander leading a cavalry regiment allied with Denmark, was killed while leading a charge against Swedish forces during the Battle of Nyborg.source
  • 1687Nell Gwyn, English actress, a mistress of Charles II of England (born 1650)source
  • 1687Nell Gwynne, actress, a mistress of Charles II of England (born 1650)source
  • 1716Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician (born 1646)source
  • 1724John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl (born 1660)source
  • 1734Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of Charles II of England (born 1649)source
  • 1739Juan de Galavís, Spanish Catholic archbishop (born 1683)source
  • 1746Georg Steller, German naturalist (born 1709)source
  • 1817Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian spy, revolutionary who worked for the independence of Colombia (born 1795)source
  • 1825Jean Paul, German writer (born 1763)source
  • 1831Georg Hegel, German philosopher (born 1770)source
  • 1832Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator (born 1737)source
  • 1835James Freeman, first American clergyman to call himself a Unitarian (born 1759)source
  • 1844Flora Tristan, French feminist (born 1803)source
  • 1866King Miguel I of Portugal (born 1802)source
  • 1895Alexandru Odobescu, author, archaeologist and politician (born 1834).source
  • 1908The Guangxu Emperor of China dies, probably poisoned. The following day, his aunt and the power behind the throne, Empress Dowager Cixi, dies.source
  • 1909Joshua Slocum, Canadian-born American seaman and adventurer (born 1844)source
  • 1914Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, British field marshal (born 1832)source
  • 1915Booker T. Washington, American educator (born 1856)source
  • 1940WWII: Coventry Blitz – The city centre of Coventry, England is destroyed by 500 Luftwaffe bombers; 150,000 fire bombs, 503 tons of high explosives and 130 parachute mines level 60,000 of the city's 75,000 buildings; 568 people are killed. The city's cathedral is gutted.source
  • 1984Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.source
  • 1997Another 125 people are reported to have died during the Somali flood.source