Events on 9 March 43
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First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
Year 1230
Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
Year 1500
The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Year 1566
David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Year 1765
After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
Year 1815
Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
Year 1831
The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
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Deaths on 9 March 78
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