Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on August 14 across the 4 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
was one of the most medieval Italian maritime powers — controlling Mediterranean trade routes, establishing colonies from the Black Sea (Caffa, modern Feodosiya) to Iberia, and significantly funding the wider Italian commercial revolution.
is wider Korean naval-hero of wider Imjin War (Japanese invasions of Korea 1592-1598).
held annually at Quillacollo on August 14-16 in honor of the Virgin Mary under her local appellation 'Virgin of Urkupiña' — is one of the three main Bolivian Catholic-Indigenous syncretic religious festivals and the main Bolivian Quechua-Catholic devotional event.
the August 14-31, 1980 Lenin Shipyard strike was triggered by the firing of dissident crane operator Anna Walentynowicz and led by electrician Lech Wałęsa (who had famously climbed the shipyard wall to join the strike).
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →