What is June 9?
{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === * [[411 BC]] &ndash; The [[Athenian coup of 411 BC|Athenian coup]] succeeds, forming a short-lived [[oligarchy]]. * [[AD 53]] &ndash; The [[Roman emperor]] [[Nero]] marries [[Claudia Octavia]]. * [[AD 68]] &ndash; [[Nero]] commits suicide, after quoting [[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]]'', thus ending the [[Julio-Claudian dynasty]] and starting the civil war known as the [[Year of the Four Emperors]]. * [[721]] &ndash; [[Odo of Aquitaine]] defeats the [[Moors]] in the [[Battle of Toulouse (721)|Battle of Toulouse]]. * [[747]] &ndash; [[Abbasid Revolution#Khorosan phase|Abbasid Revolution]]: [[Abu Muslim Khorasani]] begins an open revolt against [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad]] rule, which is carried out under the sign of the [[Black Standard]]. * [[1311]] &ndash; [[Duccio]]'s [[Maestà (Duccio)|Maestà]], a seminal artwork of the early [[Italian Renaissance]], is unveiled and installed in [[Siena Cathedral]] in [[Siena]], Italy. * [[1523]] &ndash; The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines [[Simon de Colines]] for publishing the Biblical commentary ''Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia'' by [[Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples]]. * [[1534]] &ndash; [[Jacques Cartier]] is the first European to describe and map the [[Saint Lawrence River]]. * [[1667]] &ndash; [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]]: The [[Raid on the Medway]] by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the [[Royal Navy]]. * [[1732]] &ndash; [[James Oglethorpe]] is granted a [[royal charter]] for the colony of the future U.S. state of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. * [[1762]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] forces begin the [[Battle of Havana (1762)|Siege of Havana]] and capture the city during the [[Seven Years' War]]. * [[1772]] &ndash; The [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] [[schooner]] ''[[Gaspee Affair|Gaspee]]'' is burned in Narragansett Bay, [[Rhode Island]]. * [[1798]] &ndash; [[Irish Rebellion of 1798]]: [[Battle of Arklow|Battles of Arklow]] and [[Battle of