September
- First cable sent from Britain to America, 1858.
German army invaded Poland, 1939. - Battle of Actium, 31 B.C.
Japan surrenders, 1945. - Definitive Treaty of Peace signed ending American Revolution, 1783.
Britain and France declare war on Germany, 1939. - Ghibellines defeat Gulephs at Monaperti, 1260.
Third Republic proclaimed in France, 1870. - Suleiman the Magnificent died, 1566.
King Louis XIV born, 1638. - Mayflower set sail for America, 1620.
First Battle of Marne begins, 1914. - Boniface VIII captured at Anagni, 1303.
Queen Elizabeth I born, 1533. - Richard the Lion-Hearted born, 1157.
- Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu born, 1585.
Mao Tse-tung died, 1976. - Treaty of St. Germain signed, 1919.
- Pierre de Ronsard born, 1524.
Sebastopol surrendered, 1855. - Battle of Marathon, 490 B.C.
John Sobieski, King of Poland, defeats Turks at Vienna, 1683. - Battle of Quebec began (death of James Wolfe and Louis Joseph de Montcalm), 1759.
- Dante Alighieri died, 1321.
Russia proclaimed a Republic, 1917. - Manchester to Liverpool Railway opened, 1830.
- Louis XIV of France born, 1638.
Mexican revolt against Spanish began, 1810. - Battle of Leipzig, 1631.
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat Condorcet born, 1743. - Dr. Samuel Johnson born, 1709.
- Battle of Poitiers, 1356.
- Salisbury Cathedral consecrated, 1258.
- Publius Vergilius Maro Virgil died, 19 B.C.
Federal Republic of Germany formally begins, 1949. - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette, born, 1880.
- Augustus Caesar born, 63 B.C.
- Horace Walpole born, 1717.
- Religious Peace of Augsburg, 1555.
Trans-Atlantic telephone cables opened between Britain and America, 1956. - Holy Alliance between Russia, Austria, and Prussia, 1815.
- Bishop Bossuet born, 1627.
- George Clemenceau born, 1841.
Louis Pasteur died, 1895. - Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto born, 1518.
Lord Nelson born, 1758.
Otto von Bismarck delivers "Blood and Iron" speech, 1862. - Deposition of Richard II of England, 1399.
Munich Agreement signed, 1938.
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