- 1757 14 Mar British Admiral John Byng is executed at Portsmouth for failing in an attack against the French.
- 1939 14 Mar At Germany's insistence, Slovakia declares independence from Czechoslovakia, becoming a German satellite.
- 1991 14 Mar The 'Birmingham Six', jailed for killing 21 people in two IRA bombings, have their convictions quashed.
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