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January 9

Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on January 9 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.

2 events 2 centuries 2 countries
220 CE

Emperor Guangwu of Han (Liu Xiu)

Zaoyang China

(5 BCE – 57 CE), founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 CE), is one of the iconic founding-emperors of the iconic Chinese imperial tradition — credited as the iconic restorer of the iconic Han Dynasty after the iconic 9-23 CE Wang Mang interregnum and iconic founder of the…

1945

The January 9, 1945 Lingayen Gulf landing

Dagupan Philippines

the American Sixth Army amphibious assault that began the recapture of Luzon from Japanese occupation — is one of the Pacific War operations and one of the largest amphibious operations of WWII by troop count, exceeded only by the Normandy D-Day landings of June 6, 1944 and the…

Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →