Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 14
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May 14: Feast day of Saint Matthias and Saint Mochuda (Roman Catholic Church); Sanja Matsuri begins in Tokyo
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- 1264 – Second Barons' War: King Henry III was defeated at the Battle of Lewes and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
- 1607 – An expedition led by Edward Maria Wingfield, Christopher Newport, and John Smith established the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
- 1940 – The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, had its first flight.
- 1943 – World War II: The Australian Hospital Ship Centaur (pictured) was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, killing 268 people aboard.
- 1948 – David Ben-Gurion publicly read the Israeli Declaration of Independence at the present-day Independence Hall in Tel Aviv, officially establishing a new Jewish state in parts of the former British Mandate of Palestine.