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14 December 1135Norway [administration]King Harold IV of Norway is murdered by his brother Sigurd; he is succeeded by his sons, Sigurd II and Inge I.
14 December 1542Scotland [political events]Following the death of King James V of Scotland ‘of a broken heart’ on hearing the news of the bloody Scottish defeat at Solway Moss, he is succeeded by his six-day-old daughter, Mary Queen of Scots. Cardinal David Beaton claims the regency.
14 December 1546Scandinavia [births and deaths]Tycho Brahe, leading Danish astronomer, teacher of Johannes Kepler, born in Knudstrup, Scania, Denmark-Norway (–1601).
14 December 1799America, USA [births and deaths]George Washington, commander in chief during the American Revolution, and first president of the USA 1789–97, dies and is buried in Mount Vernon, Virginia (67).
14 December 1877Serbia, Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire [wars]Serbia, siding with Russia, declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
14 December 1918Portugal [law and government]Sidonio Paes, the dictatorial president of Portugal, is assassinated. Democracy is subsequently restored.
14 December 1955world [United Nations]Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Finland, Hungary, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, and Spain are admitted to the United Nations (UN).
14 December 1981Middle East [political events]Israel formally annexes the Golan Heights, taken from Syria in the 1967 Yom Kippur War.
14 December 1995Bosnia-Herzegovina, France [treaties]The formal signing of the peace plan for Bosnia-Herzegovina takes place at the Elysée Palace, Paris, France; it creates two entities within Bosnia-Herzegovina, a Muslim-Croat federation with 51% of territory and a Serb republic with 49%; a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force will be replaced by a NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) implementation force.
14 December 1998USA [diplomacy]US president Bill Clinton, on a peace mission to the Middle East, is the first US president to visit a Palestinian territory when he meets Palestinian Liberation Organization head Yasser Arafat on the Gaza Strip. In a show of hands the Palestinian National Council affirms its renunciation of violence against Israel.


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