January 9

January 9 is the ninth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 356 days remain until the end of the year (357 in leap years).

Events

1601–1900

• 1767 – The Provincial Assemblies of the Provinces of North Catarina, South Catariana, New Cumbria, Edessa and Mantiqueira announced that their communities would join in cooperation to maintain their sovereignty, creating the United Provinces. (SA)

• 1897 – The United Kingdom issues a 48-hour ultimatum to the South African Republic to withdraw its military from Cape Colony. Two days later, the United Kingdom declares war after the Volksraad fails to respond timely. The conflict becomes known as the Anglo-Boer War. (Altverse II)

1901–present

• 1927 – Chiang Kai-shek is elected President of the Republic of China. (Altverse II)
• 1965 – Frederik IX of Skandinavia inaugurates the second Skandinavisk Kirkemøtet of The Church of Skandinavia. (Skandinavia)
• 1996 – In The Net, the Nosers attack a domain belonging to alt.tv-beavis-n-butthead, in a conflict that became known as the Feline Wars. (The Net)
• 2009 – Fighting between the Cheyenne government and the Dakotan Republic begins during the Second American Civil War. (FW)
• 2013 – During a Jacobite protest against the election of Carson Davis as the Chief Alderman of Bernheim, a powerful bomb explodes in a trash can near the protest in Downtown Bernheim. 37 people are killed instantly, and 3 others succumb to their injuries later. The attack was perpetrated by four members of a republican militia, who were arrested. (Altverse II)
• 2021 – The Cannabis Depenalization Act of 2021 is passed into law in Kalșeri. (Kalșeri)

Births

Pre-1600

• 1523 – Ichadbod von Chronistein, German writer and historian who documented the political history of the Rätian Union (d. 1611) (Merveilles des Morte)

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 1539 – Walter Steinmeir, Thuringian theorist and statesman (b. 1480) (Merveilles des Morte)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Adrian of Canterbury
  • Berhtwald
  • Translation of the Black Nazarene (Manila, Tondo)
  • Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow
  • Stephen (old calendar Eastern Orthodox)
  • January 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Start of Hōonkō (Nishi Honganji) January 9–16 (Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism)
• Non-Resident Indian Day (India)