Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 9 May 0328Pope of Alexandria from 328 to 373
Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 ITALY🗓️ 9 May 1009Historical event in the European Middle Ages
Nephon📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 9 May 1310Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1310 to 1314
England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor📜 CITIES🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 9 May 1386Country within the United Kingdom
Timurid monarch ‘Abd al-Latif is assassinated.📜 HISTORY🌍 INDIA🗓️ 9 May 1450Turco-Mongol dynasty (1370–1857)
Christopher Columbus sets of from Cádiz for his fourth voyage.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 9 May 1502Italian navigator and explorer (1451–1506)
Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 9 May 1540Spanish conquistador (1500–1541)
Scottish Royalist forces under Lord Montrose defeat Covenanter forces under John Urry.📜 WARS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 9 May 1645Royalist supporter in the English Civil War
The figure who later became Mr. Punch makes his first recorded appearance in England.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 9 May 1662Traditional British puppet show
Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap’s molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.📜 CITIES🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 9 May 1726English innkeeper
Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 9 May 1864War between Denmark, Prussia, and Austria in 1864
American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.📜 POLITICS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 9 May 1865President of the United States from 1865 to 1869
American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville📜 POLITICS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 9 May 18651861–1865 conflict in the United States
Der Krach: The Vienna stock exchange crash begins the Panic of 1873 and heralds the Long Depression.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 9 May 1873Financial crisis leading to economic depression in Europe and North America
Mihail Kogălniceanu reads📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 9 May 1877Romanian statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist (1817–1891)
Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 9 May 1901Federal legislature of Australia
World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.📜 HISTORY🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 9 May 19151914–1918 global conflict
World War I: Germany repels Britain’s second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend📜 WARS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 9 May 19181918 Royal Navy operation to block Ostend Harbour