January 9

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[edit] Events

• 475 - Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.
• 1349 - The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague, is rounded up and incinerated.
• 1431 - Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
• 1760 - Afghans defeat Marathas in Battle of Barari Ghat.
• 1788 - Connecticut becomes the fifth state to join the United States.
• 1799 - British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon.
• 1900 - S.S. Lazio is founded in Rome, Italy.

[edit] Births

• 1554 - Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623)
• 1589 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (d. 1638)
• 1685 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766)
• 1728 - Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
• 1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855)
• 1811 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
• 1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)

[edit] Deaths

• 1499 - Johann Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
• 1514 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
• 1543 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
• 1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
• 1677 - Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
• 1927 - Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British-born historian and political philosopher (b. 1855)