14 April in history

6 events that happened on 14 April, from 69 to 1931.

  1. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    69 CE 1,957 years ago

    Vitellius's army defeats Otho at Bedriacum

    Troops loyal to Vitellius beat Emperor Otho's forces near Cremona in northern Italy. Otho took his own life two days later, but Vitellius himself fell before the year was out.

  2. 1471 CE 555 years ago

    Warwick the Kingmaker is killed at the Battle of Barnet

    Edward IV defeated the Lancastrian army in fog at Barnet, and Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, was killed in the rout. Victory at Tewkesbury weeks later secured Edward's throne.

  3. 1828 CE 198 years ago

    Noah Webster registers his American Dictionary

    Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, with some 70,000 entries, was published. It promoted American spellings such as 'color' and 'center'.

  4. 1865 CE 161 years ago

    John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln at Ford's Theatre

    Five days after Lee's surrender, the actor John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln during a play in Washington. Lincoln died the next morning, the first US president to be assassinated.

    Theatre

  5. 1912 CE 114 years ago

    Titanic strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic

    At 11.40 pm the liner struck an iceberg south of Newfoundland, opening several forward compartments to the sea. She sank less than three hours later, early on 15 April.

    Newfoundland

  6. 1931 CE 95 years ago

    Second Spanish Republic is proclaimed

    After republicans swept the cities in municipal elections, the Republic was declared and Alfonso XIII left Spain. The new democracy was overthrown by the civil war that began in 1936.

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