April 9

Today in History
• 0193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum
• 0715 - Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1241 - Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles and Germans
• 1388 - Battle of Nafels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
• 1483 - Edward I succeeds Edward IV as king of England
• 1667 - 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)
• 1682 - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
• 1816 - African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes in Philadelphia


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Appomattox Day
• Bataan Day
• Easter
• Kosovo Constitution Day
• National Bodhi Day
• National Unicorn Day
• Orthodox Palm Sunday
• Vimy Ridge Day

Birthdays
• 1336 - Tamerlane, Turko-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire
• 1597 - John Davenport, Puritan clergyman and cofounder of the New Haven Colony
• 1648 - Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway
• 1753 - Pieter Paulus, President of the First National Assembly in The Hague
• 1785 - Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch physician and chemist, electric car 1835
• 1794 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute
• 1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer
• 1835 - Leopold II, King of Belgium (1865-1909)