November 9 is the 313th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. In leap years, it is the 314th day. There are 52 days left until the end of the year.

Events

• 694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of helping Muslims, and orders all Jews to be made slaves.
• 1180 – The Battle of Fujigawa: Minamoto forces (30,000 men) led by Minamoto no Yoritomo defeat Taira no Koremori during a night attack near the Fuji River, though Taira escapes with his army.
• 1277 – The Treaty of Aberconwy, a settlement forced on Llywelyn ap Gruffudd by King Edward I of England, ends the Welsh Wars temporarily.
• 1307 – Knights Templar officer Hugues de Pairaud is forced to confess during the Trials of the Knights Templar. He was charged with false idolism and sodomy.
• 1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf.
• 1323 – Siege of Warangal: Prataparudra surrenders to Muhammad bin Tughlaq, marking the end of the Kakatiya dynasty.
• 1330 – At the Battle of Posada, Basarab I of Wallachia defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.
• 1372 – Trần Duệ Tông becomes king of Vietnam after succeeding his brother, Trần Nghệ Tông.
• 1431 – The Battle of Ilava: The Hungarians defeat the Hussite army.
• 1456 – Ulrich II, Count of Celje, last ruler of the County of Cilli, is assassinated in Belgrade.
• 1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
• 1580 – Second Desmond Rebellion: The Siege of Smerwick ends with the Catholic garrison surrendering to the English forces under Arthur Grey. Most of the garrison is killed the next day.
• 1620 – The Bohemian King Frederick I flees Prague to Vratislav after his troops lose the Battle of White Mountain.
• 1688 – Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
• 1719 – In a treaty between Sweden and Hanover at the end of the Great Northern War, Sweden gives the Duchies of Bremen and Verden (in northern Germany) to Hanover.
• 1720 – The synagogue of Judah HeHasid is burned by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
• 1729 – Spain, France, and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Fishdam Ford, British and Loyalist troops fail in an attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia led by Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
• 1791 – The Dublin Society of United Irishmen is founded.
• 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire, ending the Directory government, and becomes First Consul of the Consulate Government.
• 1851 – Kentucky marshals take abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, to Kentucky for trial on helping a slave escape.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside takes command of the Army of the Potomac after George B. McClellan is removed.
• 1867 – The Tokugawa shogunate returns power to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
• 1870 – The Battle of Coulmiers ends in a Pyrrhic victory for the French army during the Franco-German War of 1870.
• 1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872 occurs.
• 1880 – A major earthquake strikes Zagreb, destroying many buildings, including Zagreb Cathedral.
• 1881 – Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Temuco.
• 1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
• 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his final victim in the Whitechapel murders.
• 1900 – Russian invasion of Manchuria: Russia completes its occupation of Manchuria with 100,000 troops.
• 1901 – Prince George, Duke of Cornwall (later George V of the United Kingdom), becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
• 1905 – The Province of Alberta, Canada, holds its first general election.
• 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first sitting U.S. president to travel abroad, inspecting progress on the Panama Canal.
• 1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is given to King Edward VII on his birthday.
• 1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster on the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills over 250 people.
• 1914 – SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
• 1917 – The Balfour Declaration is published in The Times newspaper.
• 1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany becomes a republic.
• 1921 – The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista or PNF) is founded in Italy.
• 1923 – In Munich, police and government troops stop the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch.
• 1935 – The Committee for Industrial Organization, a precursor to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions in the American Federation of Labor.
• 1936 – American fashion designer Ruth Harkness captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan, named Su Lin, who becomes the first live giant panda to enter the United States.
• 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.
• 1938 – Kristallnacht occurs, with the Nazis using the killing of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan as a reason.
• 1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari by the Polish government-in-exile.
• 1942 – Battle of Stalingrad: German forces under General Friedrich Paulus reach the Volga River, capturing 90% of Stalingrad and splitting Soviet forces into two groups.
• 1943 – An agreement for the founding of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is signed by 44 countries in the White House, Washington, D.C.
• 1945 – Soo Bahk Do and Moo Duk Kwan martial arts are founded in Korea.
• 1953 – The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.

Births

• 955 – Gyeongjong, Korean king (died 981)
• 1383 – Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (died 1441)
• 1389 – Isabella of Valois, French princess and queen of England (died 1409)
• 1414 – Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1486)
• 1455 – John V, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count (died 1516)
• 1467 – Charles II, Duke of Guelders, count of Zutphen from 1492 (died 1538)
• 1467 – Philippa of Guelders, twin sister of Charles II, Dutch duchess consort (died 1547)
• 1522 – Martin Chemnitz, German astrologer and theologian (died 1586)
• 1535 – Nanda Bayin, king of Burma (died 1600)
• 1580 – Johannes Narssius, Dutch physician and poet (died 1637)

• 1606 – Hermann Conring, German philosopher and educator (died 1681)
• 1664 – Johann Speth, German organist and composer (died 1719)
• 1664 – Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (died 2014)
• 1664 – David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, English businessman and politician (died 2021)
• 1664 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (died 1996)
• 1664 – Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish economist and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Sweden
• 1664 – Roger McGough, English author, poet, and playwright
• 1664 – Do

Deaths

• Died in 959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine emperor (born in 905)
• Died in 1034 – Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia (born around 975)
• Died in 1187 – Emperor Gaozong of Song (born in 1107)
• Died in 1208 – Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (born in 1154)
• Died in 1261 – Sanchia of Provence, queen of Germany
• Died in 1284 – Siger of Brabant, Dutch philosopher (born in 1240)
• Died in 1286 – Roger Northwode, English statesman (born in 1230)
• Died in 1312 – Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (born in 1261)
• Died in 1321 – Walter Langton, bishop of Lichfield and treasurer of England (born in 1243)
• Died in 1456 – Ulrich II, Count of Celje (born in 1406)
• Died in 1492 – Jami, Persian poet (born in 1414)
• Died in 1596 – George Peele, English translator, poet, and dramatist (born in 1556)

• Died in 1623 – William Camden, English historian and mapmaker (born in 1551)
• Died in 1641 – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (born in 1610)
• Died in 1677 – Aert van der Neer, Dutch painter (born in 1603)
• Died in 1689 – Enea Silvio Piccolomini, imperial general (born in 1651)
• Died in 1706 – Peter Mews, English Royalist theologian and bishop (born in 1619)
• Died in 1719 – Oley Douglas, British Member of Parliament (born in 1684)
• Died in 1766 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer and diplomat (born in 1692)
• Died in 1770 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish general and politician (born in 1693)
• Died in 1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator (born in 1720)
• Died in 1801 – Carl Stamitz, German-Czech violinist and composer (born in 1745)
• Died in 1848 – Robert Blum, German poet and politician (born in 1810)
• Died in 1854 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)

• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born in 1757)
• Died in 1866 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private

Holidays and observances

• Celebrates the birthday of Muhammad Iqbal in Pakistan.
• Christian feast day: Celebrates the life of Benignus of Armagh, the Dedication of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran (Cathedral of the Pope), Margery Kempe (Church of England), Martin Chemnitz (Lutheran), Nectarios of Aegina, Theodore of Amasea (Roman Catholic Church), Virgin of Almudena (Madrid), and Vitonus. Observed on November 9 in Eastern Orthodox liturgics.
• Day of the Skulls, also known as Dia de los ñatitas, in Bolivia.
• Celebrates the national flag of Azerbaijan.
• Independence Day: Celebrates Cambodia’s independence from France in 1953.
• Inventors’ Day: Celebrates inventors in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
• Celebrates the formation of Uttarakhand state in India.
• World Freedom Day: Celebrates freedom and human rights in the United States.