On This Day: February 14th

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

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.

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.

Strasbourg massacre: Several thousand Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from Strasbourg after being accused of causing the Black Death.

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

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

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

The death of Ibrahim ibn Abdallah marks the end of the Alid revolt of 762-763.

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