| 14 July 1223 | France [births and deaths] | Philip II, King of France 1179–1223, who reconquered French territories lost previously to England, dies in Nantes, France (57). |
| 14 July 1420 | Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire [wars] | In the Hussite Wars, the extremist antipapal Taborites, led by John Žiška, defeat a crusading army led by the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, King of Hungary and Bohemia, on the Vitkow, now Ziška's Hill, outside Prague, Bohemia. The ‘Four Articles of Prague’ defining the principles common to the Hussites are now published. |
| 14 July 1544 | England, France, Holy Roman Empire [Habsburg–Valois Wars (1494–1559)] | King Henry VIII of England crosses to Calais, France, to campaign against King Francis I's forces in Picardy, in conjunction with the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's invasion further east. |
| 14–20 July 1553 | England [political events] | The Duke of Northumberland sets out in force to subdue Mary Tudor, the heir to the English throne, but she has popular and noble support in London, England, in addition to her gentry army in Suffolk. Lady Jane Grey's cause fails, she is deposed, and Mary is proclaimed queen on 19 July. Northumberland surrenders and is incarcerated. |
| 14 July 1602 | Italy [births and deaths] | Jules Mazarin, cardinal, diplomat, and statesman, first minister of France 1642–61, born in Pescina, Abruzzi, Italy (–1661). |
| 14–23 July 1745 | UK [political events] | The British prince Charles Edward Stuart (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’), the ‘Young Pretender’, son of Charles Francis Edward Stuart, the ‘Old Pretender’, sails from St Nazaire, France, with some Scottish partisans in his campaign (‘the Forty-Five’) to regain the Scottish and English thrones, and lands on Eriskay Island in the Hebrides, Scotland. |
| 14 July 1789 | France [French Revolution] | A large crowd of the common people of Paris, France, (including some 5,000 women led by Théroigne de Méricourt) storms and captures the Bastille (a medieval fortress, symbol of the ancien régime) in Paris. The emigration of French aristocrats begins. |
| 14 July 1790 | France [French Revolution] | A vast rally (the Fête de la Fédération) is held in the Champ de Mars, Paris, France, on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. King Louis XVI accepts the new constitution drawn up by the National Assembly. |
| 14 July 1795 | France [music] | In France, ‘La Marseillaise’, originally written as a royalist rallying song, is adopted as the national anthem. |
| 14 July 1798 | USA [political events] | The Alien and Sedition Act in the USA attempts to suppress press criticism of the US president and his administration. |
| 14 July 1853 | USA [fairs and festivals] | The first World's Fair, modelled on the Great Exhibition of London, England, in 1851, opens in New York. |
| 14 July 1858 | England [births and deaths] | Emmeline Pankhurst, militant English suffragette, born in Manchester, England (–1928). |
| 14 July 1904 | [births and deaths] | Paul Kruger, South African statesman who founded the Afrikaaner nation and was instrumental in initiating the Second Anglo-Boer War, dies in Clarens, Switzerland (79). |
| 14 July 1909 | Germany [law and government] | Bernhard von Bülow resigns as German chancellor because of disagreements with Kaiser Wilhelm II and the naval programme, and is succeeded by Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg. |
| 14 July 1913 | [births and deaths] | Gerald Ford, 38th president of the USA (1974–77), a Republican, born in Omaha, Nebraska. |
| 14 July 1933 | Germany [legislation] | All political parties other than the National Socialist (Nazi) Party are banned in Germany. |
| 14 July 1958 | Iraq, Jordan [revolution] | Brigadier Abdul Karim Kassem mounts a coup in Baghdad, Iraq, and King Faisal II, his heir, and the prime minister Nuri-es-Said are murdered. King Hussein of Jordan assumes power as head of the Arab Federation. |
| 14 July 1976 | Spain [political events] | The ban on political parties in Spain is lifted. |
| 14 July 1999 | UK [legislation] | The European Commission votes to formally end its ban on beef exports from Britain after veterinary officials reported that the epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is under control. |
| 14 July 1999 | UK, Northern Ireland [diplomacy] | The Ulster Unionist Party rejects a peace plan proposed by British prime minister Tony Blair and Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern and refuses to attend the meeting scheduled for the following day to set up a new cabinet in Northern Ireland. The party's refusal to attend the meeting blocks the formation of the cabinet. |
