📅 Today in HistoryMay 9

Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.

Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.

England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.

Timurid monarch 'Abd al-Latif is assassinated.

Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California.

The figure who later became Mr. Punch makes his first recorded appearance in England.

Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.

Exhibition of 1761, the inaugural exhibition of the Society of Artists of Great Britain opens at Spring Gardens in London.

Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.