Historical Events on August 14

Battle of the Second War of Scottish Independence

1385 battle in Portugal

1385 document between Poland and Lithuania

The Naval battle of Ponza was fought in early August 1435, when the Duke of Milan dispatched a Genoese fleet, in order to relief the town of Gaeta, which was currently being besieged by the King of Aragon

Action of 14 August 1564

1578 battle in Morocco

Part of the Nine Years' War in Ireland (1598)

1756 French and Indian War battle

Battle in the War of the Second Coalition

Mass murder of American pioneers

1904 battle during the Russo-Japanese War

1921 Massawa earthquake

Battle of Eastern Henan

1943 World War II battle in New Guinea

1949 West German federal election — Federal elections held in West Germany on 14 August 1949

1960 Portuguese Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1960

1977 Austrian Grand Prix — Austrian auto race

1987 battle in the Angolan Civil War

1994 Hungarian Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1994

Helios Airways Flight 522 — 2005 aviation accident in Greece

2006 air strike during the Sri Lankan civil war

Killing of eleven security personnel in August 2013 in a town in Giza

2019 UEFA Super Cup — 44th edition of the annual football match organised by UEFA

2021 Haiti earthquake — 14 August 2021 magnitude 7.2 Mw earthquake

2022 fire in Yerevan, Armenia

Gas station explosion in Makhachkala, Russia on 14 August 2023