On This Day in History for February 14
Events in History
- 842 Charles II & Louis the German sign The Oaths of Strasbourg, a pact uniting their armies in fights against their older brother Lothar
- 1014 Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II Holy Roman Emperor
- 1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV (for the 1st time)
- 1130 Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
- 1349 900 Jews are burned alive in Strasbourg and similar number banned from the city after being blamed for the spread of the Black Death
- 1540 Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
- 1556 English Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
- 1615 Peruvian nobleman Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala writes to offer Spanish King Philip III his newly completed Chronicle of Andean history and Spanish rule - now only indigenous Andean viewpoint to survive (Danish National Library) [1]
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Babur
Frederick Douglass
Christopher Latham Sholes
Michael Bloomberg
Carl Bernstein
Mark RutteWeddings in History
Divorces in History
- 1919 German theoretical physicist Physicist Albert Einstein (39) divorces Serbian physicist and mathematician Mileva Marić (43) after 16 years of marriage
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Richard II
James Cook
John Dickinson
Vicente Guerrero
William Tecumseh Sherman
Dolly the SheepFebruary in History
Ancient Dresden Reduced to Rubble
The blanket bombing of Dresden in East Germany which began on this day, cost thousands of lives and remains highly controversial.
February 13, 1945
Last Adventure of Captain Cook
Explorer James Cook was the first European to set foot on Hawaii, where he was thought to be a god. But he would never leave the island alive.
February 14, 1779
Oldest Photo of a Serving US President
James K. Polk, in a restored 1849 daguerrotype that is the oldest image of a serving American president
February 14, 1849
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)
British ships with captured Spanish vessels in the foreground and the rest of the British fleet in pursuit of the fleeing Spanish
February 14, 1797