Editing July 9 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 118|118]] &ndash; [[Hadrian]], who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the World|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1989|page=228|isbn=0-13-133463-8}}</ref> 
* [[381]] &ndash; The end of the [[First Council of Constantinople|First Council]] of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman emperor [[Theodosius I]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Heather |first1=P. J. |last2=Matthews |first2=John |title=Goths in the Fourth Century |url=https://archive.org/details/gothsfourthcentu00heat |url-access=limited |location=Liverpool |publisher=Liverpool University Press |year=1991 |isbn=0-85323-426-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/gothsfourthcentu00heat/page/n150 136] }}</ref>
* [[491]] &ndash; [[Odoacer]] makes a night assault with his [[Heruli]] guardsmen, engaging [[Theoderic the Great]] in Ad Pinetam. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric forces Odoacer back into [[Ravenna]].
* [[551]] &ndash; A [[551 Beirut earthquake|major earthquake]] strikes Beirut, triggering a devastating tsunami that affects the coastal towns of [[Phoenicia under Roman rule|Byzantine Phoenicia]], causing thousands of deaths.<ref name="Elias">{{cite journal|last=Elias|first=A.|author2=Tapponnier P.|author3=Singh S.C.|author4=King G.C.P.|author5=Briais A.|author6=Daëron M.|author7=Carton H.|author8=Sursock A.|author9=Jacques E.|author10=Jomaa R.|author11=Klinger Y.|year=2007|title=Active thrusting offshore Mount Lebanon: Source of the tsunamigenic A.D. 551 Beirut-Tripoli earthquake|journal=Geology|volume=35|issue=8|pages=755–758|doi=10.1130/G23631A.1|url=http://www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/page_web/biblio/publication/elias%20et%20al%20final%20proof.pdf|access-date=2 March 2011|bibcode=2007Geo....35..755E|archive-date=12 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312125200/http://www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/page_web/biblio/publication/elias%20et%20al%20final%20proof.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[660]] &ndash; Korean forces under general [[Kim Yu-sin]] of Silla defeat the army of [[Baekje]] in the [[Battle of Hwangsanbeol]].
* [[869]] &ndash; The 8.4–9.0 {{M|w}}[[869 Sanriku earthquake|Sanriku earthquake]] strikes the area around [[Sendai]] in northern [[Honshu]], Japan. Inundation from the tsunami extended several kilometers inland.
* [[969]] &ndash; The [[Fatimid]] general [[Jawhar (general)|Jawhar]] leads the [[Friday prayer]] in [[Fustat]] in the name of Caliph [[al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah]], thereby symbolically completing the [[Fatimid conquest of Egypt]].<ref>{{cite book | chapter = The Ismāʿīlī Daʿwa and the Fāṭimid caliphate | first = Paul E. | last = Walker | title = Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume One: Islamic Egypt, 640–1517 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | editor-last = Petry | editor-first = Carl F. | location = Cambridge | year = 1998 | isbn = 978-0-521-47137-4 | pages = 120–150 | chapter-url = {{Google Books|y3FtXpB_tqMC|page=120|plainurl=y}} }}</ref>
*[[1357]] &ndash; [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Charles IV]] assists in laying the [[Cornerstone|foundation stone]] of [[Charles Bridge]] in [[Prague]].
*[[1386]] &ndash; The [[Old Swiss Confederacy]] makes great strides in [[Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy|establishing control over its territory]] by soundly defeating the [[Duchy of Austria]] in the [[Battle of Sempach]].
*[[1401]] &ndash; [[Timur]] attacks the [[Jalairid Sultanate]] and destroys Baghdad.
*[[1540]] &ndash; King [[Henry VIII]] of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, [[Anne of Cleves]].
*[[1572]] &ndash; [[Martyrs of Gorkum|Nineteen Catholics]] suffer martyrdom for their beliefs, in the Dutch town of [[Gorinchem|Gorkum]].