| 14 June 1276 | China [administration] | Shih, the seven-year-old half-brother of the captured Chinese Song emperor, is enthroned. |
| 14 June 1381 | England [revolution] | The ‘peasants' revolt’ against the poll tax in England begins. The rebels (originating mainly from Essex and Kent) occupy London and kill the chancellor, Archbishop Sudbury, and the treasurer, Robert Hales. On the following day, King Richard II of England meets the rebel leader Wat Tyler, who is later killed by the mayor of London, Sir William Walworth. The revolt is subsequently suppressed. |
| 14 June 1404 | Wales [political events] | The Welsh nationalist leader Owen Glendower, having won control of Wales, assumes the title of prince of Wales and holds a parliament. |
| 14 June 1645 | UK [British Civil Wars (1642–51)] | The English parliamentarian New Model Army has its first major success when, commanded by Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, it decisively defeats Royalist forces under King Charles I and his nephew Prince Rupert at the Battle of Naseby, Northamptonshire. Around 5,000 Royalists are taken prisoner. |
| 14 June 1736 | France [births and deaths] | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist who formulated Coulomb's law which relates the forces of electrical charges to the distance between them, born in Angoulême, France (–1806). |
| 14 June 1777 | AMERICA [legislation] | The Continental Congress votes to adopt a flag (designed, according to legend, by the seamstress Betsy Ross at the request of George Washington) as the national emblem of the new United States of America. |
| 14 June 1800 | France, Austria-HM, Italy [French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1801)] | French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat the Austrians under Baron Michel Melas at the Battle of Marengo, northwest Italy, ensuring the French reconquest of Italy. |
| 14 June 1811 | USA [births and deaths] | Harriet Beecher Stowe, US writer, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, born in Litchfield, Connecticut (–1896). |
| 14 June 1857 | France, Russian Empire [treaties] | A commercial treaty is signed between France and Russia. France is developing freer trade and Russia is more receptive to western ideas under Tsar Alexander II. |
| 14 June 1859 | Prussia, France, Austrian Empire, Italy [wars] | Prussia begins to mobilize against France in support of Austria, opposing the unification of Italy. |
| 14 June 1907 | Norway [suffrage] | Female suffrage is introduced in Norway. |
| 14–15 June 1919 | Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom [aircraft] | British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown fly, in a Vickers-Vimy twin-engined biplane, from Newfoundland to Ireland in 16 hr 12 min, winning the £10,000 prize offered by the Daily Mail for the first nonstop transatlantic flight. |
| 14 June 1928 | [births and deaths] | Che (Ernesto) Guevara, Cuban and South American communist guerrilla, born in Rosario, Argentina (–1967). |
| 14 June 1928 | [births and deaths] | Emmeline Pankhurst, militant English suffragette, dies in London, England (69). |
| 14 June 1946 | Italy [political events] | King Umberto II and his male heirs are permanently banished from Italy after the popular vote for a republican constitution. |
| 14 June 1946 | Scotland [births and deaths] | John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer who was the first to televise moving pictures, dies in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England (57). |
| 14 June 1982 | Argentina, UK [Falklands War (1982)] | Argentine forces surrender at Port Stanley, ending the Falklands War, in which 255 Britons and 652 Argentines have died. |
| 14 June 2005 | Greece [athletics] | Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell sets a new world record of 9.77 seconds for the 100 metres in Athens, Greece. |
