What happened on 9 June?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 68 Year of the Four Emperors After Nero's suicide, Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian successively claim the throne; Vespasian's Flavian dynasty wins.
2. 1672 Born: Peter the Great Tsar who westernised Russia and founded St Petersburg; expanded Russia into a major power.
3. 68 Death of Nero Abandoned by the Senate, the Guard and his own slaves, the last of the Julio-Claudians stabs himself in a freedman's villa outside Rome, lamenting 'what an artist dies in me'. A ce
4. 1967 Israel storms the Golan Heights With Egypt and Jordan beaten, Israel turns on the last front and takes the Syrian plateau that had shelled its farms for years — the fighting ends with a ceasefire on the sixth day
5. 2019 Hong Kong protests of 2019–20 Mass demonstrations against extradition law and Beijing's tightening grip.
6. 1549 Book of Common Prayer (1549) Cranmer's vernacular liturgy imposed by Edward VI; doctrinally Protestant; replaces Latin services.
7. 1763 Mozart family grand tour Leopold Mozart parades his prodigy children Wolfgang and Nannerl through the courts of Europe — Paris, London, The Hague — where the boy composes his first symphonies.
8. 1967 Nasser resigns after the Six-Day War Taking the blame for the defeat on television, Nasser resigns; millions pour into the streets of Cairo and he withdraws his resignation the next day.
9. 1865 Staplehurst rail crash A boat train plunges off a viaduct in Kent; Dickens, travelling with his mistress Ellen Ternan, tends the dying and never fully recovers from the shock.