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September 9 Historical Events

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

Found 60 events. Showing 1 - 30.

  • 9
    Arminius’ alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
  • 337
    Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.
  • 533
    A Byzantine army of 15,000 men under Belisarius lands at Caput Vada (modern Tunisia) and marches to Carthage.
  • 1000
    Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
  • 1087
    William Rufus becomes King of England, taking the title William II, (reigned until 1100).
  • 1141
    Yelü Dashi, the Liao dynasty general who founded the Qara Khitai, defeats the Seljuq and Kara-Khanid forces at the Battle of Qatwan.
  • 1379
    Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
  • 1488
    Anne becomes sovereign Duchess of Brittany, becoming a central figure in the struggle for influence that leads to the union of Brittany and France.
  • 1493
    Battle of Krbava Field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
  • 1513
    James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden, ending Scotland’s involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
  • 1543
    Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned “Queen of Scots” in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
  • 1561
    The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
  • 1739
    Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
  • 1776
    The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
  • 1791
    Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
  • 1801
    Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
  • 1839
    John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
  • 1850
    California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
  • 1850
    The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas’s claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas’s pre-annexation debt.
  • 1855
    Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
  • 1863
    American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
  • 1886
    The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
  • 1892
    Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
  • 1914
    World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
  • 1916
    Piggly Wiggly, the first true self-service grocery store, is founded in Memphis, Tennessee.
  • 1922
    The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
  • 1923
    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People’s Party.
  • 1924
    Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
  • 1926
    In the United States the National Broadcasting Company is formed.
  • 1936
    The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against Salazar dictatorship’s support of General Franco’s coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic.

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