On July 14
On July 14, 3 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including The storming of the Bastille and the outbreak of the French Revolution (1789).
On this day
14 July 1789The storming of the Bastille and the outbreak of the French RevolutionPolitics & governance
On 14 July 1789 a Parisian crowd seeking arms and gunpowder stormed the Bastille, a royal fortress-prison that symbolised Bourbon absolutism.
14 July 1889Founding of the Second International and Designation of May Day as International Workers' DayPolitics & governance
On 14 July 1889, the centenary of the storming of the Bastille, a Marxist International Socialist Congress convened in Paris and founded the Second International, a federation of socialist and labour parties drawn from some twenty…
On 14 July 2015, after years of negotiation, Iran and the P5+1 group (the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany, with the European Union) reached the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in Vienna.