In Events:
December 9th 0536 | | Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten
| December 9th 0656 | | Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion
| December 9th 1212 | | Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
| December 9th 1315 | | Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)
| December 9th 1425 | | Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven
| December 9th 1570 | | Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein
| December 9th 1625 | | Netherlands & England sign military treaty
| December 9th 1640 | | Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
| December 9th 1658 | | Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India
| December 9th 1688 | | King James II's wife & son flee England for France
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In Births:
December 9th 1392 | | Peter, Prince/Regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa benfeitoria)
| December 9th 1561 | | Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony
| December 9th 1569 | | Martinus de Porres, Peru, saint (patron of social justice)
| December 9th 1571 | | Adrian A Metius, Dutch mathematician/fort architect
| December 9th 1581 | | Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daughter of Willem of Orange
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In Deaths:
December 9th 1165 | | Malcom IV, king of Scotland (1153-65), dies at 24
| December 9th 1292 | | Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden), dies
| December 9th 1437 | | Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 70
| December 9th 1565 | | Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian Pope (1559-65), dies at 66
| December 9th 1625 | | Ubbo Emmius, [van Embden], Frisian humanist/historian, dies at 78
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