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 July - 09 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  Pope Gregory XI names Arnold II of Horne as bishop of Utrecht on this day in history.  

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  On July - 09 jan/Johannes van Eyck, Flemish painter (Lamb Gods), dies  

1513  On July - 09 john van Hembyze, Flemish calvinist  

1517  On July - 09 gelderse crowd robber murders population of Asperen  

1535  Emanuel van Meteren, Southern Neth, merchant/historian on July - 09.  

1536  French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada on July - 09.  

1540  England's King Henry VIII 6-mo marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled on this day in history.  

1541  On July - 09 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.  

1553  On July - 09 battle at Sievershausen Solingen: van Saksen beats Alcibiades  

1572  On this day in history 19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum  

1578  Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hungary/German Emperor (1619-37) on this day in history.  

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

1595  On this day in history johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe  

1609  Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemian protestants freedom of religion on July - 09.  

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

1654  Ferdinand, son of RC emperor Ferdinand III, dies on July - 09.  

1672  Prince Willem III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland/Zealand on July - 09.  

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

1686  Germany, Sweden & Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg on July - 09.  

1696  On this day in history waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska), dies  

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

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

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

1746  Philip V, French King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46), dies at 62 on this day in history.  

1747  On this day in history giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian opera-composer, dies at 76  

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  Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British on this day in history.  

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1511  On July - 09 birth of dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1571)  

1513  On July - 09 birth of john van Hembyze, Flemish calvinist  

1535  Emanuel van Meteren, Southern Neth, merchant/historian was born on July - 09.  

1577  On this day in history birth of thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Jamestown colonist (d. 1618)  

1578  Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hungary/German Emperor (1619-37) was born on this day in history.  

1589  Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist was born on July - 09.  

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

1686  Philip Livingston, American politician (d. 1749) was born on this day in history.  

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

1386  On July - 09 death of leopold III of Austria (b. 1351)  

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

1553  On this day in history death of maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)  

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

1654  Ferdinand, son of RC emperor Ferdinand III, dies on July - 09.  

1677  On July - 09 angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German medical/mystic poet, dies  

1696  Waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska), dies on this day in history.