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The following events took place on August 14. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 55 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 29 BC

  Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
• 1040

  King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
• 1183

  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).
• 1288

  Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to Düsseldorf, the village on the banks of the Düssel.
• 1352

  War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
• 1370

  Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Carlsbad which is subsequently named after him.
• 1385

  Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
• 1415

  Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
• 1480

  Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam; they are later honored in the Church.
• 1592

  Imjin War: At the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin, Yi Eok-gi, and Won Gyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu, at Hansan Island.
• 1598

  Nine Years’ War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
• 1720

  The Spanish military Villasur expedition is wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
• 1816

  The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
• 1842

  American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
• 1848

  Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
• 1880

  Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
• 1885

  Japan’s first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
• 1888

  An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord”, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison’s phonograph in London, England.
• 1893

  France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
• 1897

  Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
• 1900

  The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
• 1901

  The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
• 1911

  United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye’s death.
• 1912

  U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
• 1914

  World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
• 1916

  Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I.
• 1921

  Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People’s Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
• 1933

  Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acre.
• 1935

  Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
• 1936

  Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.

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