9th of January in History

Today in history.

These are the events thatb have happened over the years, decades and centuries in a chronological order

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• 475 Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.
• 1296 Earl Floris V signs accord with French King
• 1317 Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France
• 1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses 
• 1464 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands 
• 1522 Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
• 1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland 
• 1799 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces income tax to raise funds for the war
• 1806 Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral, London. against Napoleon
• 1861 A Union merchant ship, the Star of the West, is fired upon as it tries to deliver supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
• 1861 Mississippi secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
• 1862 The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe arrives at Victoria Docks, London, England aboard the Elizabeth Watts
• 1863 -Jan 11th] Battle of Arkansas Post, AR (Ft Hindman)
• 1866 Fisk University opens in Nashville, Tennessee
• 1878 Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
• 1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Ft Robinson
• 1879 Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas
• 1880 6' (1.83 metres) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
• 1880 The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
• 1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters
• 1894 Georges Feydeau's "Un à la Patte" premieres in Paris
• 1894 New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• 1901 NSW (918) defeat S Australia (157 & 156) by innings & 605
• 1903 Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace
• 1903 Wind Cave National Park, SD established
• 1903 Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase the American League's Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and move it to NYC creating the NY Yankees
• 1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
• 1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California, established

and a host of other very many happenings...