On This Day: September 14th

Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.

Morean War: the Battle of Kalamata ends in a Venetian victory over the forces of the Ottoman Empire under the Kapudan Pasha.

Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.

Battle of Homildon Hill: An invading Scottish army under Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany and Archibald, Earl Douglas is decimated by a contingent of 500 English archers under the command of George, Earl of March and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland.

The first recorded instance of the Catholic practice of perpetual Eucharistic adoration formally begins in Avignon, France.

Genpei War: In the Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan, the new military commander of the Minamoto clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo, is routed by Ōba Kagechika of the Taira clan.

Roger of Salerno's Crusader army defeats a numerically superior Seljuk army in the battle of Sarmin

Battle of Islandbridge: High King Niall Glúndub is killed while leading an Irish coalition against the Vikings of Uí Ímair, led by King Sitric Cáech.

"Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun.

Domitian became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.