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

Found 38 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1264

  Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
• 1509

  Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
• 1607

  Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
• 1608

  The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
• 1610

  Henry IV of France is assassinated, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
• 1643

  Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
• 1747

  War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
• 1787

  In Philadelphia, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
• 1796

  Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.
• 1804

  The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
• 1811

  Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
• 1836

  The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
• 1863

  American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
• 1868

  Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
• 1870

  The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
• 1879

  The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
• 1889

  The children’s charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.
• 1897

  The Stars and Stripes Forever is first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia.
• 1913

  Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
• 1925

  Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
• 1931

  Ådalen shootings: Five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
• 1935

  The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
• 1939

  Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
• 1940

  World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
• 1940

  World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.
• 1940

  The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, makes its first flight.
• 1943

  World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
• 1948

  Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
• 1951

  Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
• 1955

  Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.

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