14 January - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, January 14 is the day number 14 in a given year. January 14 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
January 14 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1301 | The Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century, ended with the death of King Andrew III. |
| 1551 | Abul Fazl, one of Akbar's Navratnas, was born in the Mughal period. |
| 1659 | Portugal defeated Spain in the Battle of Elvas. |
| 1703 | The earthquake shook Italy Norquie. |
| 1717 | German deposition leader "Sajko " was sentenced to death in Amsterdam. |
| 1724 | Philip V, the first Bourbon ruler of Spain, abdicated in favour of his eldest son Louis. |
| 1724 | King Philip V of Spain abdicated the throne for his 16-year-old son Louis I. |
| 1741 | The third war of Panipat started between the Marathas and the Afghans. |
| 1742 | Edmund Healy, England's best known astronomer, who introduced the world to Haley Comet, died. |
| 1758 | The King of England gave the East India Company the right to retain the property won in battle in India. |
| 1760 | French General Lely handed Puducherry to the British. |
| 1761 | The Afghans led by Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the French-supplied and trained Maratha troops at the Third Battle of Panipat in Panipat, present-day Haryana, India. |
| 1766 | Christian VII became king of Denmark. |
| 1784 | After the victory in the American independence struggle, the government entered into a peace treaty with Britain. |
| 1795 | The University of North Carolina, opened to students at Chapel Hill, is the first state university in the United States. |
| 1814 | Sweden and Denmark–Norway signed the Treaty of Kiel, whereby Frederick VI of Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden in return for the Swedish holdings in Pomerania. |
| 1898 | Joey Darling hit his first six of the Test match. |
| 1900 | Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanza in Rome. |
| 1907 | A 6.5 Mw earthquake struck Kingston, Jamaica, resulting in at least 800 deaths, which was at the time considered one of the world's deadliest earthquakes recorded in history. |
| 1907 | More than 1000 people died in the devastating earthquake in Kingston, the capital of the Caribbean country of Jamaica. |
| 1912 | Raymond Poincaré became the Prime Minister of France. |
| 1943 | Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, and Henri Giraud ) met in Casablanca to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. |
| 1953 | Josip Broz Tito was inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia. |
| 1954 | Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson Motor Car Company merged to become American Motors in an effort to create one multi brand company capable of challenging the 'Big Three' as an equal. |
| 1957 | Kripalu Maharaj became the fifth Jagadguru, the supreme spiritual leader of Hinduism. |
| 1960 | The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and bank note-issuing authority, was established. |
| 1967 | The counterculture Human Be-In was held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. |
| 1969 | Madras, the southern state of India, was renamed Tamil Nadu. |
| 1973 | Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii was broadcast live via satellite, and set a record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history. |
| 1974 | The World Football League was established. |
| 1975 | British teenage heiress Lesley Whittle was kidnapped by Donald Neilson and subsequently murdered during a failed ransom collection attempt. |
| 1977 | Narayan Karthikeyan was the first Indian to fill the Formula One race. |
| 1978 | Austrian logician Kurt Gödel, who suffered from an obsessive fear of being poisoned, died of starvation after his wife was hospitalized and unable to cook for him. |
| 1989 | In Bradford England, 1000 Muslims burn Salman Rushdie's novel Satanic Verses. |
| 1990 | Famous golf player, Perez de Cuellar says that he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf. |
| 1991 | Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as President of Guatemala. |
| 1991 | USSR decides to launch its new Premier named Valentine Pavlov. |
| 1994 | TM-17, a Russian manned spacecraft landed on the moon. |
| 1994 | For the first time in 300 years, a member of Britain's royal family adopted Catholicism. The Duchess of Kent became a member of the Catholic Church in a private service. |
| 1996 | After 97 performances of “Swinging On a Star” closes at Music Box Theater New York City. |
| 2002 | The British government announced that the foot and mouth disease that had been spreading in the country for nearly 11 months would be considered to end at midnight. |
| 2007 | The Interim Constitution was approved in Nepal. |
| 2009 | The government announced 100 percent foreign investment from facsimile copy of foreign letters. |
| 2011 | The Taliban drop their ban on education for females in Afghanistan due to a cultural change. |
| 2011 | After mass protests and revolution, Tunisia's President Zayn al-Abidin bin Ali fled the country to Saudi Arabia. |
| 2012 | Due to a transformer malfunction in Bursa, Turkey millions were left without power supply. |
| 2012 | A suicide attack in Basra, Iraq, killed 53 and injured 130 people. |
| 2013 | The former US president George Bush was released from the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas after more than 7 weeks of bronchitis treatment. |
| 2013 | The UK's oldest company, HMV opens its first shop on Oxford Street in 1921. It is the oldest music retailer with 4,500 more employees. |
Famous Birthdays of January 14:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1981 | Hyleas Fountain / Athlete / United States of America |
| 1941 | Milan Kučan / Politician / Slovakia |
| 1947 | Taylor Branch / Author / United States of America |
| 1940 | Vasilka Stoeva / Discus Thrower / Bulgaria |
| 1928 | Garry Winogrand / Author / United States of America |
| 1951 | O. Panneerselvam / Politician / India |
| 1943 | Angelo Bagnasco / Cardinal / Italy |
| 1981 | Concepción Montaner / Long Jumper / Spain |
| 1949 | Lawrence Kasdan / Producer / United States of America |
| 1956 | Étienne Daho / Singer / France |
| 1818 | Zachris Topelius / Journalist / Finland |
| 1908 | Russ Columbo / Singer / United States of America |
| 1892 | Martin Niemöller / Pastor / Germany |
| 1964 | Beverly Kinch / Sprinter / United Kingdom |
| 1982 | Víctor Valdés / Footballer / Spain |
| 83 B | Mark Antony / Politician / Rome |
| 1925 | Moscelyne Larkin / Ballerina / United States of America |
| 1952 | Sydney Biddle Barrows / Author / United States of America |
| 1950 | Arthur Byron Cover / Author / United States of America |
| 1963 | Steven Soderbergh / Producer / United States of America |
| 1928 | Gerald Arpino / Dancer / United States of America |
| 1979 | Evans Soligo / Footballer / Italy |
| 1949 | Mary Robison / Writer / United States of America |
| 1926 | Warren Mitchell / Actor / United Kingdom |
| 1964 | Shepard Smith / Journalist / United States of America |
| 1976 | Vincenzo Chianese / Footballer / Italy |
| 1870 | George Pearce / Politician / Australia |
| 1700 | Picander / Poet / Germany |
| 1930 | Kenny Wheeler / Composer / Canada |
| 1897 | Hasso von Manteuffel / Politician / Germany |
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Read in Hindi : 14 जनवरी की प्रमुख ऐतिहासिक घटनाएं