June 9 Historical Events

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

Found 50 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 411 BC
  The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
• 53
  The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
• 68
  The Roman emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer’s Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
• 721
  Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
• 747
  Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani, Arab military leader, begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.
• 1311
  Duccio’s Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
• 1534
  Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
• 1650
  The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
• 1667
  Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
• 1732
  James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
• 1762
  British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years’ War.
• 1772
  The British schooner Gaspee is burned off the coast of Rhode Island.
• 1798
  Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle of Saintfield.
• 1815
  End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set. Also, Luxembourg declares independence from the French Empire.
• 1856
  Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.

• 1862
  American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
• 1863
  American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
• 1873
  Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days.
• 1885
  Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
• 1900
  Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in a British prison under mysterious circumstances.
• 1915
  William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson‘s Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States’handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
• 1923
  Bulgaria’s military takes over the government in a coup.
• 1928
  Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
• 1930
  A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
• 1934
  Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
• 1944
  World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
• 1944
  World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
• 1946
  King Ananda Mahidol is found shot dead in his bedroom, Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world’s longest reigning monarch.
• 1948
  Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
• 1953
  Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.