June 9
411 BC Coup in Athens succeeded, forming a short-lived
oligarchy.
68 The Roman emperor Nero was deposed and committed suicide, ending
the Julian-Claudian imperial dynasty.
721 Odo of Aquitaine defeated the Moors
in the Battle of Toulouse.
1310 Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork
of the early Italian Renaissance, was unveiled and installed in the Siena
Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1549 Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury,
issued The Protestant Book of Common Prayer, sparking a Catholic peasant
rebellion.
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