On This Day: June 9th

The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.

The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.

James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.

Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.

The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.

Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.

Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.

Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.

Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.

The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.