Editing February 9 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1621]] &ndash; [[Pope Gregory XV|Gregory XV]] becomes [[Pope]], the last Pope [[Papal election|elected]] by [[acclamation (papal elections)|acclamation]].<ref>[http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1616.htm#Ludovisi Pope Gregory XV] (by S. Miranda)</ref>
*[[1654]] &ndash; The [[Capture of Fort Rocher]] takes place during the [[Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)|Anglo-Spanish War]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zA90DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT103|title=Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas|first=Laura|last=Duncombe|date=1 April 2017|publisher=[[Chicago Review Press]]|page=103|isbn=9781613736043}}</ref>
*[[1775]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: The [[Parliament of Great Britain|British Parliament]] declares [[Massachusetts]] in rebellion.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cogliano|first=Francis D.|title=Revolutionary America, 1763–1815: A Political History|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=1999|page=47}}</ref>
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[Rhode Island]] becomes the fourth US state to ratify the [[Articles of Confederation]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hough|first=Franklin Benjamin|author-link=Franklin B. Hough|title=American Constitutions|url=https://archive.org/details/americanconstit00houggoog|year=1872|publisher=Weed, Parsons, & Company|location=Albany|page=[https://archive.org/details/americanconstit00houggoog/page/n25 10]}} References to a 1778 Virginia ratification are based on an error in the Journals of Congress: "The published Journals of Congress print this enabling act of the Virginia assembly under date of Dec. 15, 1778. This error has come from the MS. vol. 9 (History of Confederation), p. 123, Papers of the Continental Congress, Library of Congress." {{cite book|last=Dyer|first=Albion M.|title=First Ownership of Ohio Lands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byh58dkalw8C&pg=PA1|orig-year=1911|year=2008|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company|location=Baltimore|isbn=978-0-8063-0098-6|page=10}}</ref>
*[[1822]] &ndash; [[Haiti]] [[Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo|attacks]] the newly established [[Dominican Republic]] on the other side of the island of [[Hispaniola]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/report08boargoog|quote=haiti; island.|title=First Report of the United States - Board of Geographic Names 1890-1891|page=[https://archive.org/details/report08boargoog/page/n52 45]|editor=United States Geographic Board|editor-link=United States Board on Geographic Names|year=1890–1891|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Washington Government Printing Office]]|access-date=13 September 2015}}</ref>
*[[1825]] &ndash; After no candidate receives a majority of [[U.S. Electoral College|electoral votes]] in [[1824 United States presidential election|the US presidential election of 1824]], the [[United States House of Representatives]] elects [[John Quincy Adams]] as sixth [[President of the United States]] in a [[contingent election]].
*[[1849]] &ndash; The new [[Roman Republic (1849)|Roman Republic]] is declared.
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Jefferson Davis]] is elected the [[President of the Confederate States of America|Provisional President]] of the [[Confederate States of America]] by the [[Provisional Congress of the Confederate States|Provisional Confederate Congress]] at [[Montgomery, Alabama]]
*[[1870]] &ndash; US president [[Ulysses S. Grant]] signs a [[joint resolution]] of [[United States Congress|Congress]] establishing the [[U.S. Weather Bureau]].
*[[1889]] &ndash; US president [[Grover Cleveland]] signs a bill elevating the [[United States Department of Agriculture]] to a [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]]-level agency.
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Verdi]]'s last opera, ''[[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]'' premieres at [[La Scala]], [[Milan]].<ref name=klein>{{cite journal|last=Klein|first=John W.|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/911833|title=Verdi and ''Falstaff''|journal=[[The Musical Times]]|date=1 July 1926|volume=67|issue=1001|pages=605–607|doi=10.2307/911833|jstor=911833|url-access=subscription}} {{subscription required}}</ref>
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[William G. Morgan]] creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as [[volleyball]].
*[[1900]] &ndash; The [[Davis Cup]] competition is established.