What happend on 14th December

13.12
15.12
1918

Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounced the Finnish throne.

1911

First expedition reaches the South Pole, led by Roald Amundsen

1902

First telegraph cable laid across the Pacific Ocean

1900

Max Planck publishes his study of quantum theory (The birth of Quantum Theory)

1896

Glasgow Underground Railway, third in the world, opens (an accident closes it the same day and it only reopens in 1897),

1819

Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state

1790

Alexander Hamilton proposes creation of a Bank of the United States

1542

Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland.

1287

Zuider Zee sea wall collapses, killing over 50,000 people