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May 14

What happened on this day

First smallpox vaccination230 years agoEdward Jenner inoculates eight-year-old James Phipps with cowpox in 1796, founding vaccination.
Paraguay independence215 years agoParaguayans overthrow the Spanish governor in Asunción in 1811 and declare a republic, without a shot being fired.
Jamestown founded419 years agoEnglish colonists land at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, establishing the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
Israel declares independence78 years agoDavid Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel in 1948.
The Leonidas reaches Fiji147 years agoThe ship lands 498 indentured labourers from Calcutta at Levuka in 1879, the first of more than 61,000 over the next 37 years.

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