Abbasid Revolution: Rise to Power (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)

2025-02-14

A Daily Dose of History (14 Feb 2025) Today's historical events: 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...

A Daily Dose of History (14 Feb 2025) Today's historical events:

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.
The Mapuches launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile beginning the Mapuche uprising of 1655.
The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent: John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.