On This Day In Military History
WORLD NEWS posted on 14 JUN 2007 by Andrew Glenn
Discover key military events that took place on this day in history
On this day in military history, June 14:
1300 - Battle of Ponza: Roger de Lauria's Sicilian-Catalan fleet defeats the Angevin-Sicilians.
1381 - The Peasant’s Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxed when rebels marched on London. They plundered, burned and captured the Tower of London and killed the Archbishop of Canterbury.
1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
1646 - Naval Battle of Orbetello: the Spanish defeat the French.
1658 - Battle at Dunes: English and French fleet beat Spanish.
1673 - Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: The United States Army is established by the Continental Congress.
1800 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
1809 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of the Raab: French defeat the Austrians.
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Wellington thanks his army for its performance in the Peninsula.
1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon opens the Waterloo Campaign.
1847 - Commodore Matthew C Perry makes amphibious landing at Tabasco, Mexico.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester – A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
1864 - American Civil War: At the Battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia, Confederate General Leonidas Polk is killed by a Union shell.
1864 - American Civil War: Congress orders Black soldiers be paid the same as whites.
1898 - Santiago: US ships exchange fire with Spanish batteries
1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
1904 - Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants.
1908 - Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorizing the financing the building of another four major warships.
1940 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11%.
1940 - World War II: German troops march into Paris, meeting practically no resistance as French and allied forces retreat.
1942 - World War II: German merchant cruiser Thor enters the Indian Ocean.
1942 - World War II: The bazooka goes into production at Bridgeport, Ct.
1944 - World War II: Sixty U.S. B-29 Superfortress' attacked an iron and steel works factory on Honshu Island. It was the first U.S. raid against mainland Japan.
1945 - World War II: Burma is liberated by the British.
1952 - Cold War: The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
1953 - Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia.
1965 - A military triumvirate took control in Saigon, South Vietnam.
1982 - Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
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