WHAT HAPPENED ON 9. MARCH
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Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China. (9. March 141. BC)

The Last Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of Prophet Muhammad. (9. March 632)

First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg. (9. March 1009)

Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa. (9. March 1230)

Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City. (9. March 1276)

The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas. (9. March 1500)

David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland. (9. March 1566)

After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide. (9. March 1765)

Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. (9. March 1796)

Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí. (9. March 1811)

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally. (9. March 1841)

Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers. (9. March 1842)

The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush. (9. March 1842)

Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz. (9. March 1847)

American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships. (9. March 1862)

Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa. (9. March 1896)

Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club. (9. March 1908)

The Westmoreland County coal strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins. (9. March 1910)

Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico. (9. March 1916)

Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins. (9. March 1925)