Historical Events In July - 09
Friday, 02 January 2026
0455 Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire on July - 09. 

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

1228 On July - 09 stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury 

1357 Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assists laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague on this day in history. 

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

1386 On July - 09 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 July - 09. 

1517 Gelderse crowd robber murders population of Asperen on this day in history. 

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

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

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

1541 On this day in history 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 Battle at Sievershausen Solingen: van Saksen beats Alcibiades on this day in history. 

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

1578 On July - 09 ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hungary/German Emperor (1619-37) 

1589 On July - 09 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 July - 09 entonius Walaeus, calvinist theologist, dies at 65 

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

1672 On July - 09 prince Willem III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland/Zealand 

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

1686 Germany, Sweden & Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg on this day in history. 

1696 Waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska), dies on July - 09. 

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 Bonnie Prince Charlies "Elisabeth" battles with HMS Lion on this day in history. 

1746 On this day in history 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 Edward Cornwallis c1713-1753 founds new settlement of Halifax founded as naval settlement to counter the French fort at Louisbourg on July - 09. 

1755 On this day in history british Gen E Braddock mortally wounded during French & Indian War 

1755 Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British on July - 09. 

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