What is January 9?
{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === * [[475]] &ndash; [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine Emperor]] [[Zeno (emperor)|Zeno]] is forced to leave his capital city, [[Constantinople]], and his general, [[Basiliscus]], takes control of the [[Empire]]. * [[681]] &ndash; [[Twelfth Council of Toledo]]: King [[Erwig]] of the [[Visigoths]] begins a [[Community council|council]] in which he introduces different measures against [[Judaism|Jews]] in [[Spain]]. * [[1127]] &ndash; Invading [[Jurchen people|Jurchen]] [[soldier]]s from the [[Jin Dynasty]] besiege and sack Bianjing ([[Kaifeng]]), capital city of the [[Song Dynasty]] in [[China]], abducting [[Emperor Qinzong of Song]] and others, ending the Northern [[Song Dynasty]]. * [[1150]] &ndash; [[China]]: [[Prince Hailing of Jin]] and other court officials [[murder]] [[Emperor Xizong of Jin]]. Hailing succeeds him as [[Emperor]]. * [[1317]] &ndash; King [[Philip V of France]] is crowned. * [[1349]] &ndash; The [[Jewish people|Jewish population]] of [[Basel]], [[Switzerland]], believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing [[bubonic plague]], were rounded up and burned to death. * [[1431]] &ndash; Judges' investigations for the trial of [[Joan of Arc]] begin in [[Rouen]], [[France]], the seat of the English occupation government. * [[1693]] &ndash; An [[earthquake]] in [[Sicily]] kills around {{formatnum:60000}} people. * [[1768]] &ndash; In [[London]], [[Philip Astley]] stages the first modern [[circus]]. * [[1788]] &ndash; [[Connecticut]] becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the [[United States]]. * [[1793]] &ndash; [[Jean-Pierre Blanchard]] becomes the first person to fly in a [[balloon]] in the United States. * [[1806]] &ndash; A state [[funeral]] is held for [[Admiral]] [[Horatio Nelson]] at [[St. Paul's Cathedral]] in [[London]]. * [[1816]] &ndash; [[Humphrey Davy]] tests his safety lamp for [[miners]] at Hebburn Colliery in present-day [[Tyne and Wear]] in the Northeast of [[England]]. * [[1822]] &ndash; [[Pedro I of Brazil]], then a Portuguese