Toledo's Twelfth Council: Impact on Spanish Jews (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)

A Daily Dose of History (09 Jan 2025)

Today's historical events:

• Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
• Jin-Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong of Song and others, ending the Northern Song dynasty.
• The Jewish population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.
• The trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen.
• Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
• Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed, ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-92.
• Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
• British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
• Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
• Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
• The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process.
• The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
• The 7.9 Mw  Fort Tejon earthquake shakes Central and Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).

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