Events on 14 November 39
See all →Year 1812
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor & Oudinot defeated by Wittgenstein.
Year 1862
American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Year 1889
Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
Year 1910
Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
Year 1932
Al Shorta SC, one of Iraq's biggest football clubs, are founded as Montakhab Al Shorta.
Birthdays on 14 November 220
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Sidonie of Poděbrady
b. 1449 – d. 1510
Sidonie of Poděbrady, daughter of King of Bohemia (d. 1510)
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John III of Pernstein
b. 1487 – d. 1548
John III of Pernstein, Bohemian land-owner, Governor of Moravia and Count of Kladsko (d. 1548)
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Anna of Oldenburg
b. 1501 – d. 1575
Anna of Oldenburg, Regent of East Frisia (d. 1575)
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Richard Topcliffe
b. 1531
Richard Topcliffe, English torturer (died 1604)
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Maurice, Prince of Orange
b. 1567 – d. 1625
Maurice, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
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John Eudes
b. 1601 – d. 1680
John Eudes, French priest and missionary (d. 1680)
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Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow
b. 1663 – d. 1712
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, German organist and composer (d. 1712)
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Leopold Mozart
b. 1719 – d. 1787
Leopold Mozart, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1787)
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Robert Fulton
b. 1765 – d. 1815
Robert Fulton, American engineer, invented the steamboat (d. 1815)
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Marie François Xavier Bichat
b. 1771 – d. 1802
Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)
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Henri Dutrochet
b. 1776 – d. 1847
Henri Dutrochet, French physician, botanist, and physiologist (d. 1847)
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Nathaniel Claiborne
b. 1777 – d. 1859
Nathaniel Claiborne, American farmer and politician (d. 1859)
Deaths on 14 November 101
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Justinian I
d. 565 (b. 482)
Justinian I, Byzantine emperor (b. 482)
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Fujiwara no Kamatari
d. 669 (b. 614)
Fujiwara no Kamatari, Japanese courtier and politician (b. 614)
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Abu'l-Fadl al-Bal'ami
d. 940
Abu'l-Fadl al-Bal'ami, Samanid vizier
Emperor Taizu of Song
d. 976 (b. 927)
Emperor Taizu of Song (b. 927)
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Geoffrey II, Count of Anjou
d. 1060
Geoffrey II, Count of Anjou
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William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex
d. 1189
William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex
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Frederick of Isenberg
d. 1226 (b. 1193)
Frederick of Isenberg (b. 1193)
Alexander Nevsky
d. 1263 (b. 1221)
Alexander Nevsky, Russian saint (b. 1220)
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Ostasio I da Polenta
d. 1346
Ostasio I da Polenta, Lord of Ravenna
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Gregory Palamas
d. 1359 (b. 1296)
Gregory Palamas, Greek archbishop and saint (b. 1296)
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Nikola Tavelić
d. 1391 (b. 1340)
Nikola Tavelić, Croatian missionary and saint (b. 1340)
Anne of Burgundy
d. 1432 (b. 1404)
Anne of Burgundy, Duchess of Bedford (b. 1404)