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Year 748

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

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Year 842

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

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Year 1014

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

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Year 1076

Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Year 1130

Pope Innocent II is elected.

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Year 1349

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

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Year 1400

Richard II of England dies, most probably from starvation, in Pontefract Castle, on the orders of Henry Bolingbroke.

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Year 1502

Spanish Inquisition: The Catholic Monarchs issue a decree forcing Muslims in Granada to convert to Catholicism or leave Spain.

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Year 1530

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.

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Year 1556

Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.

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Birthdays on 14 February 191

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Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

b. 1368 – d. 1437

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1437)

Leon Battista Alberti

b. 1404 – d. 1472

Leon Battista Alberti, Italian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)

John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel

b. 1408 – d. 1435

John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English commander (b. 1408)

Pandolfo Petrucci

b. 1452 – d. 1512

Pandolfo Petrucci, Italian ruler (b. 1452)

Johannes Werner

b. 1468 – d. 1522

Johannes Werner, German priest and mathematician (d. 1522)

Babur

b. 1483 – d. 1530

Babur, Moghul emperor (d. 1530)

Valentin Friedland

b. 1490 – d. 1556

Valentin Friedland, German scholar and educationist of the Reformation (d. 1556)

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Domenico Ferrabosco

b. 1513 – d. 1573

Domenico Ferrabosco, Italian composer (d. 1573)

Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara

b. 1545 – d. 1561

Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara (d. 1561)

Francesco Cavalli

b. 1602 – d. 1676

Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (d. 1676)

John Wilkins

b. 1614 – d. 1672

John Wilkins, English bishop, academic and natural philosopher (d. 1672)

Countess Palatine Maria Eufrosyne of Zweibrücken

b. 1625 – d. 1687

Countess Palatine Maria Eufrosyne of Zweibrücken, Swedish princess (d. 1687)

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Deaths on 14 February 94

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Saints Cyril and Methodius

d. 885 (b. 827)

Saint Methodius, Byzantine missionary and saint (b. 815)

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Lian Chongyu

d. 945

Lian Chongyu, Chinese general

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Zhu Wenjin

d. 945

Zhu Wenjin, emperor of Min (Ten Kingdoms)

Gisela of Swabia

d. 1043 (b. 990)

Gisela of Swabia, Holy Roman Empress (b. 990)

Leo I, Prince of Armenia

d. 1140

Leo I, Prince of Armenia

Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia

d. 1140

Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia

Sviatoslav Olgovich

d. 1164

Prince Sviatoslav Olgovich of Novgorod-Seversky

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Rǫgnvaldr Guðrøðarson

d. 1229

Rǫgnvaldr Guðrøðarson, King of the Isles

Margaret of France, Queen of England

d. 1317 (b. 1282)

Margaret of France, Queen of England (b. 1282)

Richard II of England

d. 1400 (b. 1367)

Richard II of England (b. 1367)

Timur

d. 1405 (b. 1336)

Timur, Mongol ruler (b. 1336)

Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg

d. 1440

Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg, German noble (b.c. 1398)

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