On this day: June 14

Events on June 14

• 1381 During the Peasants' Revolt in England, rebels stormed the Tower of London, killing Simon Sudbury, Lord Chancellor, and Robert Hales, Lord High Treasurer. Wikipedia
• 1644 First English Civil War: Prince Maurice abandoned his siege of Lyme Regis in Dorset after learning of the approach of a Parliamentarian relief force. Wikipedia
• 1646 Franco-Spanish War: French and Spanish fleets fought the inconclusive Battle of Orbetello, with sailing vessels of both sides having to be towed into action by galleys due to light winds. Wikipedia
• 1690 King William III of England (William of Orange) lands in Ireland to confront the former King James II. Wikipedia
• 1740 War of Jenkins' Ear: Spanish troops stormed the British-held strategically crucial position of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida. Wikipedia
• 1777 The Second Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States. Wikipedia
• 1800 War of the Second Coalition: In the Battle of Marengo, Napoleonic forces secured victory over the Habsburgs when defeat had appeared inevitable until the arrival of French troops led by Louis Desaix. Wikipedia
• 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. Wikipedia
• 1822 In a paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society, English mathematician Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine, an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. Wikipedia
• 1846 Settlers in Sonoma began rebelling against Mexico, later proclaiming the California Republic and raising a homemade flag with a bear and a star. Wikipedia
• 1872 Trade unions are legalized in Canada. Wikipedia
• 1900 The second of the German Naval Laws was passed, authorising the doubling in size of the Imperial German Navy. Wikipedia
• 1926 Brazil leaves the League of Nations. Wikipedia
• 1934 The landmark Australian Eastern Mission concluded after a three-month diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia. Wikipedia
• 1940 The Soviet Union issued an ultimatum to Lithuania demanding that the Red Army be allowed to enter the country and form a pro-Soviet government. Wikipedia
• 1940 Second World War: Four days after the French government fled Paris, German forces occupied the French capital, a major accomplishment in the Fall Rot operation. Wikipedia
• 1940 Seven hundred and twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Wikipedia
• 1944 Second World War: The British Army abandoned its attempt to capture the German-occupied city of Caen. Wikipedia
• 1966 The Vatican formally abolished its 427-year-old list of prohibited books. Wikipedia
• 1982 Falklands War: British prime minister Margaret Thatcher announced that white flags were flying over Port Stanley, in advance of the formal surrender of Argentine forces. Wikipedia
• 1985 Five member nations of the European Economic Community sign the Schengen Agreement establishing a free travel zone with no border controls. Wikipedia
• 1992 Swedish woman Helena Andersson disappeared in Mariestad, one suspect were ”the man with the pilot glasses". Wikipedia
• 1996 After an 81-day standoff sparked by their refusal to be evicted from their foreclosed property in Jordan, Montana, the Christian Patriot group Montana Freemen surrendered to the FBI. Wikipedia
• 2014 War in Donbas: An Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by forces of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, killing all 49 people on board. Wikipedia
• 2017 A fire severely damaged Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, killing 72 people. Wikipedia
• 2026 A Bell 206 and AS350 collided in mid-air over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing all 6 people aboard both aircraft including American singer Oliver Tree, Argentine YouTuber Gaspi, Argentine director and screenwriter Lucas A. Vignale, and Brazilian music producer Lucas Frota. Wikipedia

Born on June 14

• 1736 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (died 1806) Wikipedia
• 1798 František Palacký, Czech historian and politician (died 1876) Wikipedia
• 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (died 1896) Wikipedia
• 1838 Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese Field Marshal and politician, 3rd and 9th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1922) Wikipedia
• 1856 Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1922) Wikipedia
• 1864 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (died 1915) Wikipedia
• 1868 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943) Wikipedia
• 1903 Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician (died 1995) Wikipedia
• 1907 René Char, French poet and author (died 1988) Wikipedia
• 1909 Burl Ives, American actor and singer (died 1995) Wikipedia
• 1917 Atle Selberg, Norwegian-American mathematician and academic (died 2007) Wikipedia
• 1924 James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2010) Wikipedia
• 1933 Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist and screenwriter (died 1991) Wikipedia
• 1946 Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality, 45th and 47th President of the United States Wikipedia
• 1961 Boy George, English singer-songwriter and producer Wikipedia
• 1969 Steffi Graf, German tennis player Wikipedia
• 1976 Massimo Oddo, Italian footballer and manager Wikipedia
• 1981 Elano, Brazilian footballer and manager Wikipedia
• 1982 Lang Lang, Chinese pianist Wikipedia
• 1989 Lucy Hale, American actress and singer-songwriter Wikipedia
• 1992 Daryl Sabara, American actor Wikipedia
• 1999 Chou Tzuyu, Taiwanese singer Wikipedia

Died on June 14

• 1594 Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer and educator (born 1532) Wikipedia
• 1837 Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (born 1798) Wikipedia
• 1886 Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian director and playwright (born 1823) Wikipedia
• 1920 Max Weber, German sociologist and economist (born 1864) Wikipedia
• 1926 Mary Cassatt, American-French painter (born 1843) Wikipedia
• 1927 Jerome K. Jerome, English author (born 1859) Wikipedia
• 1928 Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist and academic (born 1857) Wikipedia
• 1936 G. K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet, playwright, and novelist (born 1874) Wikipedia
• 1946 John Logie Baird, Scottish-English physicist and engineer (born 1888) Wikipedia
• 1968 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (born 1901) Wikipedia
• 1986 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (born 1899) Wikipedia
• 1994 Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (born 1924) Wikipedia
• 1995 Roger Zelazny, American author and poet (born 1937) Wikipedia
• 2007 Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Austrian politician, 9th President of Austria (born 1918) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day: Burchard of Meissen Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Caomhán of Inisheer Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Elisha (Roman Catholic and Lutheran) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Fortunatus of Naples (Roman Catholic) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Francisca de Paula de Jesus (Nhá Chica) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Methodios I of Constantinople Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Richard Baxter (Church of England) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Valerius and Rufinus Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: June 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Commemoration of the Soviet Deportation related observances: Baltic Freedom Day (United States) Wikipedia
• Commemoration of the Soviet Deportation related observances: Commemoration Day for the Victims of Communist Genocide (Latvia) Wikipedia
• Commemoration of the Soviet Deportation related observances: Mourning and Commemoration Day or Leinapäev (Estonia) Wikipedia
• Commemoration of the Soviet Deportation related observances: Mourning and Hope Day (Lithuania) Wikipedia
• Day of Memory for Repressed People (Armenia) Wikipedia
• Flag Day (United States) Wikipedia
• Freedom Day (Malawi) Wikipedia
• Liberation Day (Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) Wikipedia
• World Blood Donor Day Wikipedia

Sources

• Wikipedia — “June 14” — events, births, deaths and observances (text under CC BY-SA 4.0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikipedia — “Selected anniversaries/June 14” — the anniversaries editors chose for the date and the article each one is about (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikidata — in how many language editions each entry's own article exists, used to fill the lists (CC0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• vacanza/holidays (open-source holiday rules, MIT licence) — holiday rules used to build the lists (checked 2026-10-15)

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “June 14” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for June 14 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.