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On March 14, 1074: Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.

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Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.

The Battle of Mogyoród took place on 14 March 1074. It was an internal conflict between Solomon, King of Hungary and his cousins duke Géza and Ladislaus, who were claiming rights to the throne.

People

Born on March 14

Abby Ryder Fortson 2008– American actress (born 2008)
Nico Mannion 2001– Italian-American basketball player (born 2001)
Chrisean Rock 2000– American rapper (born 2000)
Jihoon 2000– South Korean singer (born 2000)
Marvin Bagley III 1999– American basketball player (born 1999)
Olivia Dean 1999– British singer (born 1999)
Tyson Jost 1998– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1998)
Simone Biles 1997– American artistic gymnast (born 1997)
Batuhan Altıntaş 1996– Turkish footballer
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Brandon Aubrey 1995– American football and soccer player (born 1995)
Nick Eh 30 1995– Canadian streamer and YouTuber (born 1995)
Ansel Elgort 1994– American actor and singer (born 1994)
Anthony Bennett 1993– Canadian basketball player (born 1993)
J. T. Miller 1993– American ice hockey player (born 1993)
Shotzi Blackheart 1992– American professional wrestler
Erik Gustafsson 1992– Swedish ice hockey player (born 1992)
Emir Bekrić 1991– Serbian hurdler
Joe Allen 1990– Welsh footballer (born 1990)

People

Died on March 14

Alan Simpson American politician (1931–2025)
Scott Hall American professional wrestler (1958–2022)
Jake Phelps American skateboarder and magazine editor (1962–2019)
Charlie Whiting Formula One race director (1952–2019)
Haig Young Canadian politician (1928–2019)
Jim Bowen English comedian and television personality (1937–2018)
Marielle Franco Brazilian politician and activist (1979–2018)
Stephen Hawking English theoretical physicist (1942–2018)
Liam O'Flynn Irish musical artist (1945–2018)
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John W. Cahn American scientist (1928–2016)
Peter Maxwell Davies English composer and conductor (1934–2016)
Suranimala Rajapaksha Sri Lankan politician
Tony Benn British politician and activist (1925–2014)
Meir Har-Zion Israeli commando (1934–2014)
Jack Greene American country music singer-songwriter (1930–2013)
Aramais Sahakyan Armenian poet, humorist, publicist and translator
Ieng Sary Cambodian politician and war criminal (1925–2013)
Pierre Schoendoerffer French film director (1928–2012)

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Every March 14 on record

  1. 1074 Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.

    1074 conflict between rival claimants to the throne of Hungary

    The Battle of Mogyoród took place on 14 March 1074. It was an internal conflict between Solomon, King of Hungary and his cousins duke Géza and Ladislaus, who were claiming rights to the throne.

  2. 1590 Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion.

    1590 battle of the French Wars of Religion

    The Battle of Ivry was fought on 14 March 1590, during the French Wars of Religion. The battle was a decisive victory for Henry IV of France, leading French royal and English forces against the Catholic League by the Duc de Mayenne and Spanish forces under the Count of Egmont. Henry's forces were victorious and he went on to lay siege to Paris.

  3. 1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.

    Major war in Central Europe (1618–1648)

    The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. 5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from the effects of battle, famine, or disease, with parts of Germany reporting population declines of over 50%. Related conflicts include the Eighty Years' War, the War of the Mantuan Succession, the Franco-Spanish War, the Torstenson War, the Dutch–Portuguese War, and the Portuguese Restoration War.

  4. 1663 According to his own account, Otto von Guericke completes his book Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, detailing his experiments on vacuum and his discovery of electrostatic repulsion.

    German scientist, inventor, and politician (1602-1686)

    Otto von Guericke was a German scientist, inventor, mathematician, and physicist. His pioneering scientific work, the development of experimental methods and repeatable demonstrations on the physics of the vacuum, atmospheric pressure, electrostatic repulsion, his advocacy for the reality of "action at a distance" and of "absolute space" were noteworthy contributions for the advancement of the Scientific Revolution.

  5. 1674 The Third Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of Ronas Voe results in the Dutch East India Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam being captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers.

    1672–74 war related to the Franco-Dutch War

    The Third Anglo-Dutch War, began on 27 March 1672, and concluded on 19 February 1674. A naval conflict between the Dutch Republic and England, in alliance with France, it is considered a related conflict of the wider 1672 to 1678 Franco-Dutch War.

  6. 1757 Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
  7. 1780 American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
  8. 1794 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
  9. 1864 Rossini's Petite messe solennelle is first performed, by twelve singers, two pianists and a harmonium player in a mansion in Paris.
  10. 1885 The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
  11. 1900 The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
  12. 1901 Utah governor Heber Manning Wells vetoes a bill that would have eased restrictions on polygamy.
  13. 1903 Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
  14. 1916 Battle of Verdun: German attack captures Côte 265 at the west end of Mort-Homme but the French 75th Infantry Brigade manages to hold Côte 295 at the east end.
  15. 1920 In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
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  1. 1921 Six members of a group of Irish Republican Army activists known as the Forgotten Ten are hanged in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison.
  2. 1923 Charlie Daly and three other members of the Irish Republican Army are executed by Irish Free State forces.
  3. 1926 The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
  4. 1931 Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
  5. 1939 Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
  6. 1942 Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.
  7. 1943 The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed.
  8. 1945 The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany.
  9. 1951 Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.
  10. 1961 A USAF B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California.
  11. 1964 Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin who had shot and killed John F. Kennedy the previous year.
  12. 1967 The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
  13. 1972 Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people.
  14. 1978 The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
  15. 1979 Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people.

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