About May 14
May 14, 2025 is the 134th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 279 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 14
- 1264 –Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
- 1607 –Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
- 1610 –Henry IV of France is assassinated bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
- 1787 –In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
- 1811 –Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
- 1836 –The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
- 1868 –Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
- 1870 –The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
- 1889 –The children’s charity National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.
- 1913 –New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
- 1925 –Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
- 1935 –The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
- 1939 –Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
- 1940 –World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
- 1940 –World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.
- 1943 –A Japanese submarine sinks Ship AHS off the coast of Queensland.
- 1955 –Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
- 1963 –Kuwait joins the United Nations.
- 1973 –Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.
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