📅 Today in HistoryFebruary 14

Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.

Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.

Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.

The troubled 1130 papal election exposes a rift within the College of Cardinals.

Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from Strasbourg.

Spanish conquistadores, led by Nuño de Guzmán, overthrow and execute Tangaxuan II, the last independent monarch of the Tarascan state in present-day central Mexico.

Having been declared a heretic and laicized by Pope Paul IV on 4 December 1555, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is publicly defrocked at Christ Church Cathedral.

Coronation of Akbar as ruler of the Mughal Empire.

Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate at Whitehall Palace, London.

The Mapuches launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile beginning the Mapuche uprising of 1655.