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The following events took place on March 9. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 40 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 141 BC

  Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
• 632

  The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
• 1009

  First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
• 1230

  Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
• 1276

  Augsburg becomes a Free imperial city.
• 1500

  The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
• 1566

  David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 1765

  After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
• 1796

  Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
• 1811

  Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
• 1841

  The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
• 1842

  Giuseppe Verdi’s third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy’s foremost opera writers.
• 1842

  The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
• 1847

  Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
• 1862

  American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
• 1896

  Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adwa.
• 1908

  Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.
• 1910

  The Westmoreland County coal strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
• 1916

  Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
• 1925

  Pink’s War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
• 1933

  Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
• 1944

  World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
• 1944

  World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
• 1945

  The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces begin, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
• 1945

  World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
• 1946

  Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
• 1954

  McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, “A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy”, produced by Fred Friendly.
• 1956

  Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization policy.
• 1957

  A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
• 1959

  The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

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