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On This Day: August 14th

A look back at history on this date

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What Happened on August 14 in History

74 BC

A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan.

29 BC

Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.

1598

Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.

1592

The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.

1385

Portuguese Crisis of 1383-85: Battle of Aljubarrota: Portuguese forces commanded by John I of Portugal defeat the Castilian army of John I of Castile.

1370

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Karlovy Vary.

1352

War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.

1264

After tricking the Venetian galley fleet into sailing east to the Levant, the Genoese capture an entire Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno.

1183

Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan.

1040

King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.

Born on This Day

Catherine of York (died 1527)

Catherine of York (died 1527)

Born 1479

John de Vere

14th Earl of Oxford, English politician (died 1526)

Born 1499

Pieter Coecke van Aelst

Flemish painter (died 1550)

Born 1502

Giambattista Benedetti

Italian mathematician and physicist (died 1590)

Born 1530

Paolo Sarpi

Italian writer (died 1623)

Born 1552

Méric Casaubon

Swiss-English scholar and author (died 1671)

Born 1599

Cosimo III de' Medici

Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1723)

Born 1642

Christopher Monck

2nd Duke of Albemarle, English colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (died 1688)

Born 1653

Died on This Day

Tiberius II Constantine

Byzantine emperor

582

Duncan I of Scotland

Duncan I of Scotland

1040

Rainald of Dassel

Italian archbishop

1167

Minamoto no Yoriie

second Shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate

1204

John I of Portugal (born 1357)

John I of Portugal (born 1357)

1433
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