July 9
date
July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 175 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
118 – Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
381 – The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman emperor Theodosius I.
455 – The elderly noble Avitus is proclaimed Roman emperor by Gothic king Theoderic II in Toulouse.
491 – Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theoderic the Great in Ad Pinetam. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric forces Odoacer back into Ravenna.
551 – A major earthquake strikes Beirut, triggering a devastating tsunami that affects the coastal towns of Byzantine Phoenicia, causing thousands of deaths.
660 – Silla forces under general Kim Yu-sin defeat the army of Baekje at the Battle of Hwangsanbeol.
869 – The 8.4–9.0 Mw Sanriku earthquake strikes the area around Sendai in northern Honshu, Japan. Inundation from the tsunami extended several kilometers inland.
969 – The Fatimid general Jawhar leads the Friday prayer in Fustat in the name of Caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, thereby symbolically completing the Fatimid conquest of Egypt.
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