WHAT HAPPENED ON 14. DECEMBER
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Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake. (14. December 557)

Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang Dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled. (14. December 835)

St. Lucia's flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people. (14. December 1287)

Princess Mary Stuart becomes Mary, Queen of Scots. (14. December 1542)

The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first military academy in the world. (14. December 1751)

The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight. (14. December 1782)

The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia. (14. December 1812)

War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana. (14. December 1814)

Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state. (14. December 1819)

The Toledo War unofficially ends. (14. December 1836)

The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company. (14. December 1896)

Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law. (14. December 1900)

The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu. (14. December 1902)

The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. (14. December 1903)

The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die. (14. December 1907)

New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory. (14. December 1909)

Roald Amundsen' s team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole. (14. December 1911)

Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II. (14. December 1913)

Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (14. December 1914)

Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne. (14. December 1918)