Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 14
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July 14: Bastille Day in France
- 1223 – Louis VIII became King of France.
- 1698 – The Darien scheme began with five ships departing Leith to establish a Scottish colony on the Isthmus of Panama.
- 1789 – French Revolution: Parisians stormed the Bastille (pictured), freeing its inmates and taking the prison's large quantities of arms and ammunition.
- 1798 – The Sedition Act became United States law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.
- 1958 – King Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim.