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===Pre-1600===
* [[748]] &ndash; [[Abbasid Revolution#Persian phase|Abbasid Revolution]]: The [[Kaysanites Shia#History|Hashimi]] rebels under [[Abu Muslim Khorasani]] take [[Merv]], capital of the [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad]] province [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]], marking the consolidation of the [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid]] revolt.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bosworth|first1=C.E.|last2=Bolshakov|first2=O.G.|chapter=Central Asia Under the Umayyads and the Early 'Abbasids|title=History of Civilizations of Central Asia. Vol. 4: The Age of Achievement: A.D. 750 to the End of the Fifteenth century. Part I: The Historical, Social and Economic Setting|editor-last=Asimov|editor-first=M.S.|location=Paris|publisher=Unesco Publishing|date=1999|isbn=9231034677|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=18eABeokpjEC|page=29}}</ref>
* [[842]] &ndash; [[Charles the Bald]] and [[Louis the German]] swear the [[Oaths of Strasbourg]] in the French and German languages.<ref>{{cite book|last=Verbruggen|first=J.F.|title=The Art of Warfare in Western Europe During the Middle Ages: From the Eighth Century to 1340|location=Rochester, N.Y.|publisher=The Boydell Press|date=1997|isbn=9780851155708|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-qH1u1Ca-1IC|page=31}}</ref>
*[[1014]] &ndash; [[Pope Benedict VIII]] crowns [[Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry of Bavaria]], [[Monarchy|King]] of Germany and of Italy, as [[Holy Roman Emperor]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Henry II {{!}} Holy Roman emperor |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-II-Holy-Roman-emperor |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=12 February 2020 |language=en |archive-date=5 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805112943/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-II-Holy-Roman-emperor |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1130]] &ndash; The troubled [[1130 papal election]] exposes a rift within the [[College of Cardinals]].
*[[1349]] &ndash; Several hundred [[History of the Jews in Europe|Jews]] are [[Death by burning|burned to death]] by mobs while the remaining Jews are [[Strasbourg massacre|forcibly removed]] from [[Strasbourg]].
*[[1530]] &ndash; [[Conquistador|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]].
*[[1556]] &ndash; Having been declared a [[Heresy#Catholicism|heretic]] and [[Loss of clerical state|laicized]] by [[Pope Paul IV]] on 4 December 1555,<ref>{{cite book|last=Heinze|first=R.W.|chapter='I pray God to grant that I may endure to the end': A new look at the martyrdom of Thomas Cranmer|title=Thomas Cranmer: Churchman and Scholar|editor-last1=Ayris|editor-first1=Paul|editor-last2=Selwyn|editor-first2=David G.|location=Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|date=1999|isbn=9780851157405|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v38KbocqEScC|page=271}}</ref> [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] [[Thomas Cranmer]] is publicly defrocked at [[Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford|Christ Church Cathedral]].<ref>{{cite book|last=MacCulloch|first=Diarmaid|title=Thomas Cranmer: A Life|location=London|publisher=Yale University Press|year=1996|isbn=9780300066883|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y4DD4mAYipUC|pages=590–592}}</ref>
*  1556   &ndash; Coronation of [[Akbar]] as ruler of the [[Mughal Empire]].