Template:On this day - June 14

Jorge Luis Borges

• 853 – Anastasius, a religious canonized by the Catholic Church, dies martyred in the Emirate of Córdoba (present-day Spain) (b. 9th century).
• 853 – Digna, a nun canonized by the Catholic Church, dies martyred in the Emirate of Córdoba (present-day Spain) (b. 9th century).
• 853 – Felix of Alcalá, a Benedictine monk canonized by the Catholic Church, dies martyred in the Emirate of Córdoba (present-day Spain) (b. 830).
• 1217 – In Autillo de Campos, Ferdinand III is proclaimed King of Castile, later to be officially crowned in Valladolid (present-day Spain).
• 1658 – At Dunkirk (Spanish Netherlands, present-day France), the Franco-English army defeats the Spanish-English army at the Battle of the Dunes.
• 1808 – In Cádiz (Spain) (in the course of the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain), the French squadron of Admiral Rosily surrenders to the naval forces of the Spaniard Juan Ruiz de Apodaca.
• 1846 – In Sonoma, Anglo-American settlers start a rebellion against Mexico, proclaiming the California Republic.
• 1855 – The American filibuster William Walker, financed by the slaveholders of the southern United States in their eagerness to annex new territories, lands in Nicaragua.
• 1864 – In Spain, Isabella II inaugurates the National Factory of Currency and Stamps.
• 1883 – Death of Edward FitzGerald, British writer, translator and Hispanist (b. 1809).
• 1921 – In Misiones Province (Argentina), the town of Aristóbulo del Valle is founded.
• 1928 – Birth of Ernesto Che Guevara, Argentine-Cuban physician, politician and revolutionary guerrilla fighter (d. 1967).
• 1935 – The Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay comes to an end.
• 1940 – The Francoist Army (of Spain) occupies the international city of Tangier in order to guarantee its neutrality.
• 1959 – In the Dominican Republic the 14th of June Revolutionary Movement is formed to fight against the dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo.
• 1982 – The Falklands War ends with the unconditional surrender of the Argentine troops to the British forces at Port Stanley.
• 1986 – Death of Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer of short stories, poems and essays, a key figure of both Spanish-language literature and world literature (b. 1899).
• 2008 – In Zaragoza (Spain), the International Exposition opens to the public under the motto «Water and sustainable development».
• 2021 – Death of Enrique Bolaños, engineer and politician, President of Nicaragua between 2002 and 2007 (b. 1928).