About April 14
April 14, 2025 is the 104th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 261 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 309 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 14
- 69 –Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
- 70 –Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.
- 966 –After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
- 1205 –Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
- 1341 –Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
- 1471 –In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
- 1699 –Khalsa: The Sikh Religion was formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in Northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
- 1775 –The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
- 1846 –The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
- 1860 –The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
- 1881 –The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
- 1890 –The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
- 1894 –The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
- 1906 –The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
- 1940 –World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
- 1956 –In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
- 1981 –STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
- 1991 –The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1999 –NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
- 2003 –U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
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