August 9 Historical Events

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

Found 36 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 48 BC
  Caesar’s Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus – Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
• 378
  Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths. Valens is killed along with over half of his army.
• 1173
  Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.
• 1329
  Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.
• 1483
  Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome with the celebration of a Mass.
• 1500
  Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503): The Ottomans capture Methoni, Messenia.
• 1610
  The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.
• 1810
  Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
• 1814
  Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
• 1842
  The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
• 1854
  Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.
• 1862
  American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain – At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
• 1877
  Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army
• 1892
  Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
• 1902
  Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

• 1907
  The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
• 1914
  Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
• 1925
  A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India
• 1930
  Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.
• 1936
  Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
• 1942
  Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
• 1942
  World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
• 1944
  The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
• 1944
  Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
• 1945
  World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 35,000 people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.
• 1945
  The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
• 1965
  Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
• 1965
  A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
• 1969
  Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men’s hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
• 1971
  The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.