Events on 14 August 52
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King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
Year 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).
Year 1288
Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to Düsseldorf, the village on the banks of the Düssel.
Year 1352
War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
Year 1370
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Carlsbad which is subsequently named after him.
Year 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.
Year 1457
Publication of the Mainz Psalter, the first book to feature a printed date of publication and printed colophon
Year 1480
Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam; they are later honored in the Church.
Year 1598
Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeats an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
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Deaths on 14 August 91
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