Historical Events In July - 09

0455  On this day in history roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire.  

0711  Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupies North Spain on July - 09.  

1228  On this day in history stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury  

1357  On July - 09 charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assists laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.  

1371  On July - 09 pope Gregory XI names Arnold II of Horne as bishop of Utrecht  

1386  On this day in history battle at Sempach: Swiss beat duke Leopold III of Austria  

1401  Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad on this day in history.  

1441  Jan/Johannes van Eyck, Flemish painter (Lamb Gods), dies on this day in history.  

1513  John van Hembyze, Flemish calvinist on this day in history.  

1517  Gelderse crowd robber murders population of Asperen on July - 09.  

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1535  On July - 09 emanuel van Meteren, Southern Neth, merchant/historian  

1536  On July - 09 french navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada  

1540  On this day in history england's King Henry VIII 6-mo marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled  

1541  Estevão da Gama departs Massawa, leaving behind 400 matchlock men and 150 slaves under his brother Christovão da Gama, with orders to help the Emperor of Ethiopia defeat Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi who has invaded his Empire on July - 09.  

1553  Battle at Sievershausen Solingen: van Saksen beats Alcibiades on July - 09.  

1572  19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum on July - 09.  

1578  On this day in history ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hungary/German Emperor (1619-37)  

1589  On this day in history johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist  

1595  On July - 09 johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe  

1609  On July - 09 emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemian protestants freedom of religion  

1639  On this day in history entonius Walaeus, calvinist theologist, dies at 65  

1654  On July - 09 ferdinand, son of RC emperor Ferdinand III, dies  

1672  On this day in history prince Willem III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland/Zealand  

1677  On this day in history angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German medical/mystic poet, dies  

1686  On July - 09 germany, Sweden & Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg  

1696  On July - 09 waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska), dies  

1716  On July - 09 joseph Sauveur, French sound engineer, dies at 63  

1737  On July - 09 de' Medici, last Medici-grand duke of Toscane, dies  

1745  On this day in history bonnie Prince Charlies "Elisabeth" battles with HMS Lion  

1746  On July - 09 philip V, French King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46), dies at 62  

1747  Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian opera-composer, dies at 76 on July - 09.  

1749  On this day in history edward Cornwallis c1713-1753 founds new settlement of Halifax founded as naval settlement to counter the French fort at Louisbourg.  

1755  British Gen E Braddock mortally wounded during French & Indian War on this day in history.  

1755  On this day in history battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British  

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1511  On this day in history birth of dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1571)  

1513  John van Hembyze, Flemish calvinist was born on July - 09.  

1535  On this day in history birth of emanuel van Meteren, Southern Neth, merchant/historian  

1577  Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Jamestown colonist (d. 1618) was born on July - 09.  

1578  Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hungary/German Emperor (1619-37) was born on July - 09.  

1589  Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist was born on this day in history.  

1654  Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732) was born on this day in history.  

1686  On July - 09 birth of philip Livingston, American politician (d. 1749)  

1228  On this day in history death of stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury  

1386  Death of Leopold III of Austria (b. 1351) on this day in history.  

1441  On this day in history jan/Johannes van Eyck, Flemish painter (Lamb Gods), dies  

1553  Death of Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521) on July - 09.  

1639  Entonius Walaeus, calvinist theologist, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

1654  On this day in history ferdinand, son of RC emperor Ferdinand III, dies  

1677  Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German medical/mystic poet, dies on July - 09.  

1696  On July - 09 waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska), dies