📅 Today in HistoryMarch 9

Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.

First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.

Khwarazmian sultan Jalal ad-Din conquers the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.

Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.

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 in 1494.

Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three-year occupation.

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 died by suicide.

Scottish philosopher Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations, ushering in the classical period of political economy.

Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.

Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.