December 14

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Events

=Pre-1600=

  • 557Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake, which cracks the dome of Hagia Sophia.{{cite book|last=Evans|first=J.A.S.|title=The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire|location=Westport, Conn.|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=2005|isbn=9780313325823|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xDNv6qZ_I-IC|page=xx}}
  • 835Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled.{{cite book|last=Broughton|first=Jeffrey L.|title=Zongmi on Chan|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|date=2009|isbn=9780231143929|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WsJIbu1WXEUC|page=204}}
  • 1287St. Lucia's flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.{{cite book|last=Wallenfeldt|first=Jeff|title=Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands|location=New York|publisher=Britannica Educational|date=2014|isbn=9781615309733|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3eGbAAAAQBAJ|page=140}}
  • 1542 – Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen of Scots at the age of one week on the death of her father, James V of Scotland.{{cite book|last=Fraser|first=Antonia|title=Mary Queen of Scots|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|date=2015|isbn=9781780229263|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YE9GAwAAQBAJ|page=3}}

=1601–1900=

  • 1751 – The Theresian Military Academy is founded in Wiener Neustadt, Austria.{{cite book|last1=Király|first1=Béla K.|last2=Rothenberg|first2=Gunther E.|title=War and Society in East Central Europe|location=New York|publisher=Brooklyn College Press|date=1988|oclc=63437018|page=99}}
  • 1780Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York.{{cite book|last=Newton|first=Michael E.|title=Discovering Hamilton: New Discoveries in the Lives of Alexander Hamilton, His Family, Friends, and Colleagues, From Various Archives Around the World|location=Phoenix, Ariz.|publisher=Eleftheria Publishing|date=2019|isbn=9780982604045|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5oOiDwAAQBAJ|page=250}}
  • 1782 – The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly {{convert|2.5|km|mi|abbr=on}}.{{cite book|last=Gillispie|first=Charles Coulston|title=The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784: With a Word on the Importance of Ballooning for the Science of Heat and the Art of Building Railroads|location=Princeton, N.J.|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=2014|isbn=9780691613321|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gNX_AwAAQBAJ|page=21}}
  • 1812 – The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.{{cite book|last=Hartley|first=Janet M.|chapter=War, Economy and Utopianism: Russia After the Napoleonic Era|title=War, Demobilization and Memory The Legacy of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions|editor-last1=Forrest|editor-first1=Alan|editor-last2=Hagemann|editor-first2=Karen|editor-last3=Rowe|editor-first3=Michael|location=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|date=2016|isbn=9781137406491|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xa7tCwAAQBAJ|page=84}}
  • 1814War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.{{cite book|author=Office of the Chief of Naval Operations|title=Riverine Warfare: The U.S. Navy's Operations on Inland Waters|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Naval history Division, United States Navy|date=1968|oclc=712698|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NeZHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP1|page=11}}
  • 1819Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.{{cite book|last=Lewis|first=Herbert James|title=Alabama Founders: Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State|location=Tuscaloosa|publisher=The University of Alabama Press|date=2018|isbn=9780817319830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ys9ZDwAAQBAJ|page=86}}
  • 1836 – The Toledo War unofficially ends as the "Frostbitten Convention" votes to accept Congress' terms for admitting Michigan as a U.S. state.{{cite book|last=Fuller|first=George Newman|title=Historic Michigan" Land of the Great Lakes|location=Dayton, Ohio|publisher=National Historical Association|date=1924|oclc=632517669|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wRwFtBSbFoYC|pages=63–65}}
  • 1863American Civil War: The Confederate victory under General James Longstreet at the Battle of Bean's Station in East Tennessee ends the Knoxville Campaign, but achieves very little as Longstreet returns to Virginia next spring.{{cite web|title=Battle of Bean's Station|url=https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/battle-of-beans-station/|author=King, Spurgeon|website= Tennessee Encyclopedia|date= October 8, 2017|access-date= December 7, 2020}}
  • 1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.{{cite book|last=Wills|first=Elspeth|title=Scottish Firsts: A Celebration of Innovation and Achievement|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Mainstream Publishing|date=2002|isbn=9781840186116|page=126}}
  • 1900Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law (quantum theory) at the Physic Society in Berlin.{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=22|isbn=0-942191-01-3}}

=1901–present=

Births

=Pre-1600=

  • 1009Go-Suzaku, emperor of Japan (died 1045)
  • 1332Frederick III, German nobleman (died 1381)
  • 1546Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and chemist (died 1601){{cite book |last1=Moesgaard |first1=Kristian Peder |chapter=Brahe, Tycho [Tyge] Ottesen |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |date=2007 |pages=163–165 |doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_196|isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 }}
  • 1599Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge, English politician (died 1668)

=1601–1900=

=1901–present=

Deaths

=Pre-1600=

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=1901–present=

Holidays and observances

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