How many days and weeks until April 14th?

Titanic received ice warnings through the day on April 14th 1912 and held her course and speed. The lookouts in the crow’s nest had no binoculars; the key to the locker had gone ashore at Southampton with an officer transferred at the last minute. At 11.40 that night, ship’s time, Frederick Fleet rang the bell three times and telephoned the bridge. The berg was alongside for perhaps ten seconds. Thomas Andrews, the ship’s designer, examined the damage and told Captain Smith she had an hour, possibly two.

Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington on the evening of April 14th 1865, five days after Appomattox, while watching a comedy called Our American Cousin. In Britain it was already the small hours of the 15th. He died the following morning without regaining consciousness.

The Battle of Barnet was fought in dense fog on Easter Sunday, April 14th 1471. The fog was decisive: one Lancastrian contingent was mistaken by its own side for Edward IV’s men, the cry of treason went up, and the line broke. Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, the man history calls the Kingmaker, was killed trying to reach his horse.

Christiaan Huygens, who found the rings of Saturn and built the first pendulum clock, was born on April 14th 1629. The actress Julie Christie was born in 1940, and the country singer Loretta Lynn in 1932.

Born on April 14th: star sign, birthstone and birth flower

Julie Christie and Christiaan Huygens — both named above — share this star sign with everyone else born in the same window.

None of this is settled fact in the way the history above is — zodiac dates, birthstones and birth flowers are conventions rather than laws, and different sources hedge them slightly differently. The birthstone is the most standardised of the three (set by the trade in 1912 and revised since); the birth flower is the least, resting on Victorian tradition rather than any governing body.

Gift ideas for a April 14th birthday

A small, themed starting point rather than a shopping list — diamond for the stone, Aries for the sign, and the sky itself on the day.

Personalised birth flower & birthstone disc

Engraved with a name, the April birthstone and the daisy — both in one pendant, in a gift box.

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Aries constellation necklace

Stainless steel, sign selectable at checkout — choose Aries for a April 14th birthday.

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Personalised star map print

The actual night sky over a chosen place on April 14th, whichever year — a print rather than jewellery.

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