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This is a list of selected May 14 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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1509War of the League of Cambrai: French forces defeated the Venetians at the Battle of Agnadello in present-day Northern Italy. needs more footnotes
1796 – English physician Edward Jenner began testing cowpox as a vaccine against smallpox. lead too short
1879 – The first group of Indian indentured workers arrived in Fiji on board the Leonidas, forming the nucleus of the Indo-Fijian community. refimprove section, unreferenced sections
1925Mrs Dalloway, one of the best-known novels of English modernist author Virginia Woolf, was first published. refimprove section
1955Cold War: Eight Eastern Bloc countries signed a mutual defense treaty to establish the Warsaw Pact. refimprove sections
1988 – A drunk driver struck a converted school bus carrying a church youth group on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, US, killing 27 people. no footnotes

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May 14: Feast day of Saint Matthias and Saint Mo Chutu (Roman Catholicism)

Statue of Simon de Montfort on the Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower in Leicester

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