The Battle of Lewes takes place on May 14, 1264, north of Lewes, Sussex, during the Second Barons' War, where Simon de Montfort's rebel forces defeated King Henry III. resulting in the capture of King Henry III and Prince Edward, and in Simon de Montfort becoming the the effective ruler of England.
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The London based "Virginia Company," established the first permanent English settlement in America on May 14, 1607, as "James Fort" at now Jamestown, with 104 men arriving aboard three ships, Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery.
The Virginia company held a royal charter granted by King James in 1606 for the colonial pursuit. The settlement faced numerous hardships, including disease, starvation, and conflict with the Powhatan Confederacy, but ultimately became a vital part of the growing English presence in the New World. It is considered a permanent settlement although it had a brief abandonment in 1610. More
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Henry IV King of France and King of Navarre is assassinated, on May 14, 1610, in Paris by François Ravaillac, a Catholic fanatic. Henry was traveling in an open carriage on the Rue de la Ferronnerie. Ravaillac stabbed the king three times, with a fatal wound to the aorta. Ravaillac was immediately apprehended and executed.
Henry IV, was also known as Good King Henry (le Bon Roi Henri) or Henry the Great (Henri le Grand), He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. He pragmatically balanced the interests of the Catholic and Protestant parties in France, as well as among the European states. He was succeeded by his son Louis XIII. More
British Dr. Edward Jenner performed the world's first successful vaccination on May 14, 1796 by inoculating eight-year-old, James Phipps with cowpox matter and, then later tested his immunity by exposing him to smallpox. James Phipps did not contract smallpox.
The successful vaccination proved Jenner's discovery that inoculation with cowpox matter provides immunity against smallpox and marked the beginning of modern vaccination, eventually leding to the global eradication of smallpox. More
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, officially departed from the St. Louis, Missouri area on May 14, 1804, traveling up the Missouri River on a mission to explore and map the newly acquired western territory of the United States. The group consisted of around 30 members, including soldiers, interpreters, scouts, and others.
They faced numerous challenges, including harsh weather, treacherous terrain, encounters with Native American tribes, and logistical difficulties. The Lewis and Clark Expedition made significant contributions to American knowledge of the West. and it continues to be celebrated as a remarkable feat of discovery and an enduring symbol of the nation's westward expansion. More
Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel, at midnight on May 14, 1948, in Tel Aviv, just before the expiration of the British mandate in Palestine; precipitating the first Arab-Israeli war.
The UN General Assembly had adopted the resolution to partition Palestine on 29 November 1947 and Britain had announced the termination of its Mandate for Palestine, effective on 15 May 1948. Ben-Gurion became Israel’s first premier. More
The Warsaw Treaty Organization (also known as the Warsaw Pact), a political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries is established on May 14, 1955, The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a collective security alliance concluded between the United States, Canada and Western European nations in 1949. More
U.S. Justice, Abraham Fortas resigns on May 14, 1969, becoming the first member of the U.S. Supreme Court to resign under threat of impeachment.
Fortas faced serious accusations of impropriety after revelations about his financial dealings with financier Louis Wolfson and the existence of a contract in which Fortas was to receive $20,000 annually from Wolfson, ostensibly for consultancy services during a time when Wolfson was under federal investigation for stock manipulation. The Justice Department investigated Fortas at the behest of President Richard Nixon. Attorney General John N. Mitchell pressured Fortas into resigning. More
Skylab, the United States, first space station, Skylab, is launched by NASA on May 14, 1973, aboard the final Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center. Three separate, three-man crews occupied the Skylab workshop for a total of 171 days and 13 hours, between May 1973 and February 1974, validating long-duration human spaceflight.
It was the site of nearly 300 scientific and technical experiments, including medical experiments on humans’ adaptability to zero gravity, solar observations and detailed Earth resources experiments. Skylab is no longer in space. After completing its missions, Skylab re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and broke apart, with debris falling in Western Australia in 1979. More