WHAT HAPPENED ON 9. SEPTEMBER
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Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. (9. September 9)

Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti. (9. September 337)

A Byzantine army of 15,000 men under Belisarius lands at Caput Vada (modern Tunisia) and marches to Carthage. (9. September 533)

Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. (9. September 1000)

William II becomes King of England, taking the title King William II, (reigned until 1100). (9. September 1087)

Yelü Dashi, the Liao Dynasty general who founded the Qara-Khitai, defeats the Seljuq and Kara-Khanid forces at the Battle of Qatwan. (9. September 1141)

Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III. (9. September 1379)

Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire. (9. September 1493)

James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai. (9. September 1513)

Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling. (9. September 1543)

The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants. (9. September 1561)

Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina. (9. September 1739)

The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States. (9. September 1776)

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington. (9. September 1791)

Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces. (9. September 1801)

John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph. (9. September 1839)

California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state. (9. September 1850)

The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt. (9. September 1850)

Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city. (9. September 1855)

American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee. (9. September 1863)