March 14 is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left before the end of the year is 292.

Railways

• On March 14, 1930, the law numbered 1673 approving the international railway agreement signed in Bern.

Olaylar

• 1489 – Catherine Cornaro, Queen of the Kingdom of Cyprus, sells the island to the Republic of Venice.
• 1794 – Eli Whitney patents the cotton sorting machine.
• 1827-II. During the reign of Mahmut II, Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Şahane was established.
• 1919 – Medicine Day and anniversary of the founding of Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Şahane; Under the leadership of Hikmet Boran, today is celebrated as Medicine Day due to the official confrontation of the medical community against the imperialist powers.
• 1919 – The Greeks’ plan to land in Izmir is accepted by British Prime Minister Lloyd George, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and US President Woodrow Wilson.
• 1923 – Gençlerbirliği Sports Club is founded in Ankara.
• 1939 – The Slovak Republic and Carpathian Ukraine declare independence from Czechoslovakia under pressure from Nazi Germany.
• 1939 – Hatay Assembly adopts the Turkish Lira as its official currency.
• 1951 – Korean War: United Nations forces retake Seoul.
• 1953 – After the death of Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Malenkov transferred his post to Khrushchev 8 days later.
• 1958 – The United States begins to impose an embargo on the Batista regime in Cuba.
• 1964 – The United Nations Security Council decides that the Peace Corps will go to Cyprus.
• 1975 – Fatih Laçingil, who was serving in the army in Keşan, killed Şaban Dereli, who had just joined the division, by extorting his money. He was executed on September 12.
• 1980 – A US Air Force C-130 military transport plane crashes while landing at Incirlik Air Base. 18 American soldiers died.
• 1983 – The bill establishing State Security Courts is voted on by the Consultative Assembly.
• 1984 – Bilsak Theater Workshop is established in Istanbul.
• 1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale occurs in Iran.
• 1998 – YÖK declares that carrying and wearing a headscarf is a crime.
• 2000 – Naim Süleymanoğlu breaks the world record by lifting 145 kg in the snatch during training which he continues in Ankara.
• 2003 – The 59th Turkish government is established under the chairmanship of MP Siirt Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
• 2008 – Supreme Court Attorney General Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya filed a complaint in the Constitutional Court for the closure of the Justice and Development Party.

births

• 1627 – Roelant Roghman, Dutch Golden Age painter, illustrator and printmaker (died 1692)
• 1641 – Hyeonjong, 18th King of the Joseon Kingdom (died 1674)
• 1681 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
• 1692 – Peter Van Musschenbroek, Dutch scientist (died 1761)
• 1726 – Esma Sultan, III. Ahmed’s daughter (died 1788)
• 1742 – Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, Shah of Iran and founder of the Qajar dynasty (died 1797)
• 1804 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (died 1849)
• 1820-II. Vittorio Emanuele, King of the Kingdom of Sardinia (died 1878)
• 1821 – Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, Danish archaeologist and prehistoricist (died 1885)
• 1827 – George Frederick Bodley, British architect (died 1907)
• 1835 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
• 1836 Jules Joseph Lefebvre, French portrait painter (died 1911)
• 1844 – Umberto I, King of Italy (died 1900)
• 1847 – Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (d. 1871)
• 1853 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (died 1918)
• 1854 – Paul Ehrlich, German scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1915)
• 1854 – Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States (died 1925)
• 1854 – Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian poet, novelist, playwright and literary critic (died 1920)
• 1859 – Leonardo Bistolfi, Italian sculptor (d. 1933)
• 1874 – Anton Philips, founder of Philips Electronics in the Netherlands (died 1951)
• 1876 ​​- Lev Berg, Russian geographer, biologist and ichthyologist (died 1950)
• 1879 – Albert Einstein, German physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1955)
• 1882 – Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician (died 1969)
• 1886 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian racing cyclist (died 1964)
• 1887 – Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar, Turkish novelist and writer (died 1967)
• 1894 – Vladimir Triandafillov, Soviet commander and theorist (died 1931)
• 1903 – Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (died 1979)
• 1906 – Fazıl Küçük, Turkish Cypriot politician and journalist (died 1984)
• 1906 – Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Turkish composer (died 1972)
• 1908 Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher (died 1961)
• 1914 – Ali Tanrıyar, Turkish physician, politician and sportsman (died 2017)
• 1920 – Memduh Ün, Turkish director (died 2015)
• 1925 – Tarık Minkari, Turkish surgeon and writer (died 2010)
• 1926 – Neriman Altındağ Tüfekçi, Turkish folk music soloist and first female conductor (died 2009)
• 1933 – Michael Caine, English actor and Oscar winner
• 1933 – Quincy Jones, American bandleader, composer, musician and producer
• 1934 – Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov, Soviet physician (died 2000)
• 1934 – Manuel Piñeiro, Cuban intelligence officer and politician (died 1998)
• 1938 – Şerafettin Elçi, Turkish lawyer and politician (died 2012)
• 1940 – Durul Gence, Turkish jazz musician and bandleader
• 1940 – Metin Altiok, Turkish poet and painter (died 1993)
• 1941 – Wolfgang Petersen, German director
• 1942 – Emin Çölaşan, Turkish journalist and writer
• 1948 – Billy Crystal, Welsh film actor
• 1952 – Sheila Abdus-Salaam, American judge and attorney (died 2017)
• 1952 – Mehmet Güçlü, Turkish wrestler
• 1965 – Aamir Khan, Indian actor
• 1967 – Gürdal Tosun, Turkish theater artist (died 2000)
• 1972 – Kaan Dobra, Polish-Turkish footballer
• 1979 – Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
• 1982 – François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (died 2008)
• 1985 – Eva Angelina, American porn star
• 1988 – Sasha Grey, American porn star
• 1988 – Stephen Curry, American basketball player
• 1989 – Colby O’Donis, Puerto Rican-American R&B and pop singer
• 1990 – Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1991 – Emir Bekrić, Serbian hurdler.
• 1994 – Ansel Elgort, American actor and singer
• 1996 – Mustafa Batuhan Altintas, Turkish footballer
• 1998 – Neslican Tay, Turkish cancer activist (died 2019)

Armed

• 1457 – Emperor Jingtai, seventh Ming dynasty emperor of China (born 1428)
• 1471 – Thomas Malory, English writer (b. 1415)
• 1571 – János Zsigmond Zápolya becomes King of Transylvania and Hungary from 1540 to 1571 (b. 1540)
• 1604 – Kınalızade Hasan Çelebi, Ottoman scholar of fiqh and kalam (b. 1546)
• 1632 – Tokugawa Hidetada, 2nd shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty (b. 1579)
• 1703 – Robert Hooke, English scientist (b. 1635)
• 1791 – Johann Salomo Semler, German Protestant theologian (b. 1725)
• 1823 – Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez, French general (born in 1739)
• 1854 – Yekaterina Vladimirovna Apraksina, Russian nobleman (b. 1770)
• 1883 – Karl Marx, German philosopher and economist (b. 1818)
• 1932 – George Eastman, American inventor and industrialist (Kodak Company) (b. 1854)
• 1938 – Alexei Rykov, Bolshevik revolutionary (b. 1881)
• 1940 – Gabriele Possanner, Austrian physician (born 1860)
• 1944 – Katharine Elizabeth Dopp, American educator and author (b. 1863)
• 1946 – Werner von Blomberg, Minister of Defense of Nazi Germany b. 1878)
• 1953 – Klement Gottwald, Czech statesman and journalist b. 1896)
• 1955 – Şamran Hanım, Turkish composer and singing artist (b. 1870)
• 1959 – Faik Ahmet Barutçu, Turkish politician (born in 1894)
• 1968 – Josef Harpe, First and Second World Wars. German Generaloberst in World War II (b. 1887)
• 1973 – Chic Young, American Cartoonist (Blondie-Fatoş-) (b. 1901)
• 1975 – Susan Hayward, American actress (born 1917)
• 1978 – Aziz Basmacı, Turkish theater and film actor (born in 1912)
• 1980 – Mohammad Hatta, leader of the Indonesian independence movement (b. 1902)
• 1983 – Maurice Ronet, French film actor (born in 1927)
• 1989 – Zita von Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria (b. 1892)
• 1995 – William Alfred Fowler, American philosopher (b. 1911)
• 1997 – Jurek Becker, Polish-born German writer, screenwriter, East German dissident (born 1937)
• 1997 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born American director (born 1907)
• 2006 – Lennart Meri, Estonian writer and director (2nd President of Estonia) (born 1929)
• 2007 – Lucie Aubrac, professor of French history and member of the French Resistance (born in 1912)
• 2017 – Sa’dun Hammadi, former Prime Minister of Iraq under President Saddam Hussein (b. 1930)
• 2010 Peter Graves, American actor (Our mission is danger) (born in 1926)
• 2011 – Jülide Gülizar, Turkish presenter, writer, trainer and one of the first news presenters of TRT and Turkey (b. 1929)
• 2014 – İlhan Feyman, Turkish jazz musician and trumpeter (born 1930)
• 2018 – Halit Deringör, Turkish footballer and sportswriter (born 1922)
• 2018 – Marielle Franco, Brazilian activist and politician (born in 1979)
• 2018 – Stephen Hawking, English physicist, cosmologist, astronomer, theorist and author (b. 1942)

Holidays and special occasions

• Medical day
• Pi Day
• World Rotaract Day
• Withdrawal of Russian and Armenian troops from Hınıs district in Erzurum (1918)
• Withdrawal of Russian and Armenian troops from Köprüköy district in Erzurum (1918)