What happened on 14 November?

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

1. 1889 Born: Jawaharlal Nehru First Prime Minister of independent India; architect of its democracy.
2. 1913 Proust's In Search of Lost Time Seven-volume French novel of memory, society, and time.
3. 1900 Born: Aaron Copland American composer; Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man.
4. 1883 Stevenson's Treasure Island Adventure novel — defining pirate fiction.
5. 1940 The Coventry Blitz Five hundred bombers work over Coventry for eleven hours, gutting the medieval cathedral and the city's centre and killing 568 people — the concentrated raid that gives the Germans
6. 1948 Born: Charles III Succeeded his mother in 2022; the oldest person ever to become British monarch.
7. 1920 Wrangel's fleet evacuates Crimea The last White army in European Russia sails from Crimea in 126 ships — 146,000 soldiers and civilians bound for Constantinople and a scattered emigration. The Russian Civil War is
8. 1908 Death of the Guangxu Emperor Held under palace arrest since the failed reforms of 1898, the 37-year-old emperor dies a day before Cixi; tests a century later find a lethal dose of arsenic in his hair.
9. 1943 Bernstein's Carnegie Hall debut The 25-year-old assistant conductor steps in at a few hours' notice for an ailing Bruno Walter in a live national broadcast and becomes famous overnight.
10. 1965 Battle of Ia Drang The first major engagement between the US Army and the North Vietnamese Army, in the Central Highlands.
11. 1501 Catherine of Aragon marries Prince Arthur Ferdinand and Isabella's daughter marries Henry VII's heir at St Paul's, sealing the Anglo-Spanish alliance; Arthur dies within five months, and whether the marriage was consummate
12. 1888 Institut Pasteur opens Funded by an international subscription after the rabies triumph, Pasteur's research institute opens in Paris; it goes on to identify HIV and train generations of microbiologists.