WHAT HAPPENED ON 14. OCTOBER
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Pope Callixtus I is killed by a mob in Rome's Trastevere after a 5-year reign in which he had stabilized the Saturday fast three times per year, with no food, oil, or wine to be consumed on those days. Callixtus is succeeded by cardinal Urban I. (14. October 222)

Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England. (14. October 1066)

Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence. (14. October 1322)

Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest (14. October 1465)

Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. (14. October 1582)

Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England. (14. October 1586)

Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive. (14. October 1656)

Seven Years' War: Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk. (14. October 1758)

The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. (14. October 1773)

Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland. (14. October 1773)

Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria. (14. October 1805)

Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia. (14. October 1806)

The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France. (14. October 1808)

Work on London's Regent's Canal starts. (14. October 1812)

The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta. (14. October 1840)

The British arrest the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes. (14. October 1843)

American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station – Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the American Union Army completely out of Virginia. (14. October 1863)

University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan. (14. October 1882)

The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. (14. October 1884)

Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene. (14. October 1888)

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