What happened on 14 May?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1948 Founding of the State of Israel David Ben-Gurion declares independence; Arab-Israeli war follows immediately.
2. 1796 Jenner's smallpox vaccine Edward Jenner's cowpox inoculation gives the world the first vaccine.
3. 1607 Jamestown founded First permanent English settlement in North America, in Virginia.
4. 1986 Gorbachev breaks the silence Eighteen days after the explosion, Gorbachev finally addresses the nation on television — candid by Soviet standards, defensive by any other. Privately the disaster radicalises him
5. 1925 Mrs Dalloway Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novel of a single day in post-war London.
6. 2017 Presidency of Emmanuel Macron Labour-market reform, the gilets jaunes, the pandemic and pension protests.
7. 1610 Assassination of Henry IV King Henry IV is stabbed to death in Paris by François Ravaillac.
8. 1940 Britain raises the Home Guard A radio appeal for Local Defence Volunteers brings 250,000 men in a week — veterans, boys and reserved-occupation workers drilling with shotguns, pikes and eventually rifles. A qua
9. 1973 Skylab America's first space station, saved by spacewalking repairs after losing its shield at launch; its fiery 1979 return over Australia is a global media event.