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On November 9, 694: At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.

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At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.

The Seventeenth Council of Toledo first met on 9 November 694 under Visigothic King Egica. It was the king's third council and primarily directed, as was the Sixteenth, against the Jews, for whom Egica seems to have had a profound distrust and dislike.

People

Born on November 9

Prithvi Shaw 1999– Indian cricketer (born 1999)
Momo Hirai 1996– Japanese singer (born 1996)
Finn Cole 1995– English actor (born 1995)
Daniel Naroditsky 1995– American chess grandmaster (1995–2025)
Lyrica Okano 1994– American actress
Pete Dunne 1993– British professional wrestler (born 1993)
Nosa Igiebor 1990– Nigerian footballer
Baptiste Giabiconi 1989– French singer and model
Nikki Blonsky 1988– American actress (born 1988)
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Lio Tipton 1988– American actor and model (born 1988)
Carl Gunnarsson 1986– Swedish ice hockey player
Bakary Soumaré 1985– Malian footballer (born 1985)
Delta Goodrem 1984– Australian singer-songwriter (born 1984)
French Montana 1984– Moroccan and American rapper (born 1984)
Seven 1984– South Korean singer (born 1984)
Rob Elloway 1983– Germany international rugby union player
Ted Potter Jr. 1983– American professional golfer
Michael Turner 1983– English footballer

People

Died on November 9

Bobby Allison American racing driver (1937–2024)
Lou Donaldson American jazz saxophonist (1926–2024)
Judith Jamison American dancer and choreographer (1943–2024)
Ella Jenkins American folk singer (1924–2024)
Junko Ohashi Japanese singer (1950–2023)
Max Cleland American politician (1942–2021)
Chuck Mosley American musician (1959–2017)
Shyla Stylez Canadian pornographic actress (1982–2017)
Greg Ballard American basketball player (1955–2016)
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Carol Doda American dancer (1937–2015)
Ernst Fuchs Austrian artist (1930–2015)
Tommy Hanson American baseball player (1986–2015)
Byron Krieger American fencer (1920–2015)
Andy White Scottish drummer (1930–2015)
Rubén Alvarez Argentine golfer
Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani Qatari prince
R. A. Montgomery American writer
Myles Munroe Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

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Every November 9 on record

  1. 694 At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.

    694 AD synod under Iberian king Egica

    The Seventeenth Council of Toledo first met on 9 November 694 under Visigothic King Egica. It was the king's third council and primarily directed, as was the Sixteenth, against the Jews, for whom Egica seems to have had a profound distrust and dislike.

  2. 1180 The Battle of Fujigawa: Minamoto forces (30,000 men) under Minamoto no Yoritomo defeat Taira no Koremori during a night attack near the Fuji River but he escapes safely with the routed army.

    Battle in 1180 in Japan

    The Battle of Fujigawa was a battle of the Genpei War of the Heian period of Japanese history. It took place in 1180, in what is now Shizuoka Prefecture.

  3. 1277 The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement forced on Llywelyn ap Gruffudd by King Edward I of England, brings a temporary end to the Welsh Wars.

    1277 treaty between England and Wales

    The Treaty of Aberconwy was signed on the 10th of November 1277, and was made between King Edward I of England and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales. It followed Edward's invasion of Llywelyn's territories earlier that year. The treaty re-established peace between the two but also essentially guaranteed that Welsh self-rule would end upon Llywelyn's death and represented the completion of the first stage of the Conquest of Wales by Edward I.

  4. 1307 Knights Templar officer Hugues de Pairaud is forced to confess during the Trials of the Knights Templar. He was persecuted on the charges of false idolism and sodomy.

    Catholic military order, 1118 to 1312

    The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a military order of the Catholic faith, and one of the most important military orders in Western Christianity. They were founded in 1118 to defend pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem, with their headquarters located there on the Temple Mount, and existed for nearly two centuries during the Middle Ages.

  5. 1313 Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf.

    Holy Roman Emperor from 1328 to 1347

    Louis IV, called the Bavarian, was King of the Romans from 1314, King of Italy from 1327, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1328 until his death in 1347.

  6. 1323 Siege of Warangal: Prataparudra surrenders to Muhammad bin Tughlaq, officially marking the end of the Kakatiya dynasty.
  7. 1330 At the Battle of Posada, Basarab I of Wallachia defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.
  8. 1372 Trần Duệ Tông succeeds his brother Trần Nghệ Tông as King of Vietnam.
  9. 1431 The Battle of Ilava: The Hungarians defeat the Hussite army.
  10. 1456 Ulrich II, Count of Celje, last ruler of the County of Cilli, is assassinated in Belgrade.
  11. 1520 More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
  12. 1580 Second Desmond Rebellion: The Siege of Smerwick ends with the Catholic garrison surrendering to the English forces under Arthur Grey. The majority of the garrison is massacred the next day.
  13. 1620 The Bohemian King Frederick I flees Prague to Vratislav one day after the defeat of his troops in the Battle of White Mountain.
  14. 1688 Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
  15. 1719 In a treaty between Sweden and Hanover at the close of the Great Northern War, Sweden cedes the Duchies of Bremen and Verden (in northern Germany) to Hanover.
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  1. 1720 The synagogue of Judah HeHasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
  2. 1729 Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
  3. 1780 American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
  4. 1791 The Dublin Society of United Irishmen is founded.
  5. 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming First Consul of the successor Consulate Government.
  6. 1851 Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
  7. 1862 American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
  8. 1867 The Tokugawa shogunate hands back power to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
  9. 1870 The Battle of Coulmiers ends in a Pyrrhic victory for the French army during the Franco-German War of 1870.
  10. 1872 The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
  11. 1880 A major earthquake strikes Zagreb and destroys many buildings, including Zagreb Cathedral.
  12. 1881 Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.
  13. 1887 The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
  14. 1888 Jack the Ripper murders Mary Jane Kelly, his final victim in the Whitechapel murders.
  15. 1900 Russian invasion of Manchuria: Russia completes its occupation of Manchuria with 100,000 troops.

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