All Events

Historical Events on June 14

  • American Revolutionary War

    1775

    American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.

  • Napoleon

    1800

    The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.

  • Napoleon

    1807

    Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.

  • American Civil War

    1863

    American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.

  • Brazil

    1926

    Brazil leaves the League of Nations

  • World War II

    1940

    World War II: As part of Germany's Fall Rot, Paris is occupied and Allied forces retreat.

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    1954

    U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

  • China

    1967

    China tests its first hydrogen bomb.

  • London

    2017

    London: A fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington leaves at least 80 people dead and another 74 injured.

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