What is November 9?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[1282]] &ndash; [[Pope Martin IV]] excommunicates King [[Peter III of Aragon]]. * [[1313]] &ndash; [[Louis the Bavarian]] defeats his cousin, [[Frederick I of Austria]], in the [[Battle of Gamelsdorf]]. * [[1456]] &ndash; [[Ulrich II of Celje]], the last prince of the [[Celje]] [[principality]] in present–day [[Slovenia]], is murdered in [[Belgrade]]. * [[1492]] &ndash; [[Peace of Etaples]] between [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] and [[Charles VIII of France|Charles VIII]]. * [[1494]] &ndash; [[Family de' Medici]] become rulers of [[Florence]]. * [[1520]] &ndash; Over 50 people are sentenced and [[Execution|executed]] in the [[Stockholm Bloodbath]]. * [[1620]] &ndash; Pilgrims aboard the [[Mayflower]] sight land at present–day [[Cape Cod]], [[Massachusetts]]. * [[1688]] &ndash; [[Glorious Revolution]]: [[William III of England|William of Orange]] captures [[Exeter]], [[Devon]]. * [[1729]] &ndash; Spain, France & England sign the [[Treaty of Seville]]. * [[1780]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Battle of Fishdam Ford]]. * [[1791]] &ndash; Foundation of the [[Dublin]] [[Society of United Irishmen]]. * [[1799]] &ndash; [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] leads the [[Coup d'état|Coup]] of [[18 Brumaire]]. * [[1802]] &ndash; From [[Callao]], [[Peru]], [[Alexander von Humboldt]] observes the transit of the [[planet]] [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]]. * [[1861]] &ndash; The first–documented [[Canadian football]] match is played at University College, [[University of Toronto]]. * [[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: Union General [[Ambrose Burnside]] takes over control of the [[Army of the Potomac]]. * [[1867]] &ndash; The [[Tokugawa Shogunate]] hands power back to the [[Emperor]] of [[Japan]], starting the [[Meiji Restoration]]. * [[1872]] &ndash; The [[Great Boston Fire of 1872]] occurs in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. * [[1880]] &ndash; A large [[earthquake]] strikes [[Zagreb]], present–day [[Croatia]]. The city's [[cathedral]] is among the buildings either destroy