Year 1537
Death of Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat from drowning while escaping from the Portuguese.
FEBRUARY 14
Daily Historical Chronicle
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14 February: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 14 February.
Observances & Special Days
Parents Worship Day (parts of India)
Valentine's Day
Year 1556
The coronation of Mughal emperor Akbar took place at Kalanaur in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab. At that time, Akbar was only 13 years old.
Year 1658
Dara Shikoh defeated Shah Shuja in the Battle of Bahadurpur to take over the power of Delhi after Shah Jahan.
Year 1876
Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied for a telephone patent on the same day.
Year 1881
Establishment of India’s first homeopathic college at Kolkata.
Year 1899
Voting machines began to be used in American elections.
Year 1924
Establishment of computer maker IBM Company.
Year 1945
World War II- Royal Air Force planes bombed the city of Dresden, Germany.
Year 1945
Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru joined the United Nations.
Year 1946
The first computer was on display at ENIAC University of Pennsylvania.
Year 1989
Union Carbide agreed to pay USD 470,000,000 in compensation to the Government of India for the Bhopal tragedy.
Year 1990
Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
Year 2000
Abhijit Kunte became the fourth Grandmaster of India.
Year 2005
YouTube, the world-famous video-searching website, was launched.
Year 2019
Pulwama attack takes place in Lethpora in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel and a suicide bomber were killed and 35 were injured.
Born 1483
Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and first Emperor of the Mughal dynasty in India.
Born 1818
Frederick Douglass, an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
Born 1909
Accamma Cherian, an Indian independence activist from the erstwhile Travancore, India.
Born 1933
Madhubala, an Indian film actress.
Born 1952
Sushma Swaraj, an Indian politician, and a Supreme Court lawyer.
Died 1779
Captain James Cook, a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy.
Died 1808
John Dickinson, a Founding Father of the United States.
Died 1975
P. G. Wodehouse, an English author.
Died 2016
Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, English lieutenant, engineer, and politician (b. 1928)
Died 2016
Steven Stucky, American composer and academic (b. 1949)
Died 2018
Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician and diplomat, Prime Minister and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1939)
Died 2018
Morgan Tsvangirai, 2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (b. 1952).