History of October 14

 

History of October 14

History of today

Important events of this day in the history of the country and the world

Important events of October 14

• 1066 – The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings.
• 1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept the independence of Scotland.
• 1582 – The Gregorian calendar was adopted by the Catholic Church in place of the Julian calendar.
• 1773 – The British Parliament passed the Tea Act, giving the British East India Company a monopoly on the sale of tea in the American colonies.
• 1775 – The Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia.
• 1792 – Christopher Columbus is canonized by Pope Alexander VI.
• 1815 - The Congress of Vienna was called to redraw the map of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars.
• 1862 – The Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest one-day battle in American history, is fought during the Civil War.
• 1884 - The Washington Monument was dedicated.
• 1912 – Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest while giving a campaign speech in Milwaukee, but survived because his manuscript slowed the bullet.
• 1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I on the side of the Central Powers.
• 1943 - Allied forces liberated the Italian island of Corsica from German occupation.
• 1944 – The Warsaw Uprising against German occupation ends in defeat, with more than 200,000 Poles killed.
• 1947 - Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier in an airplane.
• 1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent struggle for civil rights in the United States.
• 1973 – The Yom Kippur War begins between Israel and Egypt and Syria.
• 1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, creating the European Union.
• 2012 – Felix Baumgartner skydives from the edge of space, breaking several world records in the process.