Editing April 14 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1639]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: Forces of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] and [[Electorate of Saxony]] are defeated by the Swedes at the [[Battle of Chemnitz]], ending the military effectiveness of the Saxon army for the rest of the war and allowing the Swedes to advance into [[Bohemia]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Watts|first=Tim J.|chapter=Chemnitz, Battle of (April 14, 1639)|title=Germany at War: 400 years of Military History|editor-last=Zabecki|editor-first=David T.|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2014|isbn=9781598849806|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCWMBQAAQBAJ|page=252}}</ref>
*[[1775]] &ndash; The [[Pennsylvania Abolition Society|Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage]], the first [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolition]] society in North America, is organized in [[Philadelphia]] by [[Benjamin Franklin]] and [[Benjamin Rush]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Sinha|first=Manisha|title=The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition|location=New Haven|publisher=Yale University Press|date=2017|isbn=9780300227116|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Bh8CwAAQBAJ|page=72}}</ref>
*[[1793]] &ndash; The French troops led by [[Léger-Félicité Sonthonax]] defeat the slaves settlers in the [[Siege of Port-au-Prince (1793)|Siege of Port-au-Prince]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schœlcher|first=Victor|author-link=Victor Schœlcher|title=Vie de Toussaint Louverture|publisher=[[Éditions Karthala]]|orig-year=1889|year=1982|language=French|page=71}}</ref>
*[[1816]] &ndash; [[Bussa's rebellion#Bussa|Bussa]], a slave in British-ruled [[Barbados]], [[Bussa's rebellion|leads a slave rebellion]], for which he is remembered as the country's first national hero.<ref>{{cite book|author=Junius P. Rodriguez|title=Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h86YKfO-9RgC&pg=PA90|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-33272-2|pages=90}}</ref>
*[[1849]] &ndash; Hungary [[Hungarian Declaration of Independence|declares itself independent]] of [[Austrian Empire|Austria]] with [[Lajos Kossuth]] as its leader.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Spencer C.|title=The Roots and Consequences of Independence Wars: Conflicts That Changed World History|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2018|isbn=9781440855986|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r59MDwAAQBAJ|page=178}}</ref>
*[[1858]] &ndash; The [[1858 Christiania fire]] severely destroys several city blocks near [[Stortorvet]] in [[Oslo|Christiania]], Norway, and about 1,000 people lose their homes.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Branner |encyclopedia=[[Oslo byleksikon]] |editor1=Arstal, Aksel |editor1-link=Aksel Arstal|editor2=Just, Carl|editor2-link=Carl Just|publisher=Aschehoug |location=Oslo|edition=2|year=1966 |orig-date=1938 |language=Norwegian }}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln|Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth]]; Lincoln dies the following day.<ref>{{cite book|author=Carolyn Lawton Harrell|title=When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln: Southern Reaction to the Assassination|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uRdfSQHLaPoC&pg=PA75|year=1997|publisher=Mercer University Press|isbn=978-0-86554-587-8|pages=75}}</ref>
* 1865 &ndash; [[William H. Seward]], the [[United States Secretary of State|U.S. Secretary of State]], and his family are [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln#Powell attacks Seward|attacked at home]] by [[Lewis Powell (conspirator)|Lewis Powell]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=James J. Barnes|author2=Patience P. Barnes|title=The American Civil War Through British Eyes: February 1863-December 1865|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rUS7OZzDXzIC&pg=PA315|year=2003|publisher=Kent State University Press|isbn=978-0-87338-831-3|pages=315–}}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; The [[Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight]] occurs in [[El Paso, Texas]].<ref>{{cite book|title=American Cowboy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YOoCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA152|date=November–December 2007|publisher=Active Interest Media, Inc.|pages=152}}</ref>
*[[1890]] &ndash; The [[Organization of American States|Pan-American Union]] is founded by the First [[Pan-American Conference|International Conference of American States]] in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite book|last=Manger|first=William|title=Inter-American Highlights, 1890-1940|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|date=1940|oclc=1193999715|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9VpqAAAAMAAJ|page=3}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; The first ever commercial [[film|motion picture]] house opens in New York City, United States. It uses ten [[Kinetoscope]]s, devices for peep-show viewing of films.<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Musser|title=The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IEUMWToGOtUC&pg=PA81|date=4 May 1994|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-08533-6|pages=81}}</ref>
*[[1895]] &ndash; The [[1895 Ljubljana earthquake]], both the most and last destructive earthquake in the area, occurs.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kajzer |first=Janez |title=S tramovi podprto mesto |publisher=Mladinska Knjiga |year=1983 |location=Ljubljana |pages=84–164 |language=sl}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; The world's fair [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|Exposition Universelle]] opens in Paris.<ref>{{cite book|last=Burbank|first=Richard|title=Twentieth Century Music|location=New York City, USA|publisher=Facts on File Publication, New York City, NY|year=1984|isbn=0-87196-464-3|page=13}}|</ref>