September 7th in History

1191 - Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.

1571 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.

1818 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.

1921 - The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.


1940 - Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.


1945 - Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.

1988 - Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.

2005 - Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election.

Famous Birthdays:

1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England 

1817 - Queen Louise of Hesse-Kassel of Denmark

1819 - Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States

1903 - Margaret Landon, writer

1917 - Jacob Lawrence, painter

1930 - King Baudouin I of Belgium 

1950 - Julie Kavner, actress

1981 - Paul McCoy, musician

1987 - Aleksandra Wozniak, tennis player

September 6th in History

3114 BC - According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started.

1522 - The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

1620 - The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16)

1885 - Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.

1939 - World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.

1940 - King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.

1944 - World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.

1948 - Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.

1968 - Swaziland becomes independent.

Famous Birthdays:

1666 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia

1766 - John Dalton, chemist and physicist

1869 - Felix Salten, author

1913 - Julie Gibson, actress

1923 - Peter II of Yugoslavia

1937 - Jo Anne Worley, actress

1957 - José Sócrates, former Prime Minister of Portugal

1974 - Tim Henman, tennis player

1988 - Max George, singer

2006 - His Imperial Highness Prince Hisahito of Akishino, third in line to become Emperor of Japan.

September 5th in History

1666 - Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died.

1725 - Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.

1800 - Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.

1836 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas

1839 - United Kingdom declared First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.

1882 - The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

1937 - Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.

1941 - Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.

1960 - The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

1972 - Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.

Famous Birthdays:

1187 - Louis VIII of France

1638 - Louis XIV of France

1771 - Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen

1817 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, poet, author, and playwright

1888 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 2nd President of India

1929 - Bob Newhart, actor and comedian

1942 - Eduardo Mata, conductor and composer

1965 - Chris Morris, comedian and actor


1978 - Yu Nan, actress

1987 - Pierre Casiraghi, son of HRH Caroline, Princess of Hanover

September 4th in History

476 - Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy, thus ending the Western Roman Empire.


1666 - In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.

1812 - War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.

1870 - Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.

1948 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.

1972 - Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at the Munich, West Germany Olympic Games.

1998 - Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.

Famous Birthdays:

1241 - Alexander III of Scotland 

1563 - Emperor Wanli of China

1803 - Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States, wife of the 11th President of the United States, James Polk

1902 - Thomas Mitchell, cricketer

1945 - Danny Gatton, musician

1971 - Ione Skye, actress

1981 - Beyoncé Knowles, singer and actress

September 3rd in History

301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by St. Marinus.

590 - Consecration of Pope Gregory I

1189 - Richard I of England (Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster Abbey.


1651 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester – Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.

1658 - Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England

1783 - American Revolutionary War: the war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1870 - Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23

1939 - World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.

1943 - World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins.


1945 - Three-day celebration was held in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2nd.

1971 - Qatar becomes an independent state

Famous Birthdays:

1034 - Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan

1724 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, soldier and Governor of Quebec

1851 - Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, Queen of Greece

1899 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, biologist, Nobel laureate

1925 - Bengt Lindström, artist

1949 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, 129th Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa


1964 - Nigel Rhodes, actor

1976 - Ashley Jones, actress

1981 - Fearne Cotton, television presenter

September 2nd in History

44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.

1666 - The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings.

1752 - Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar


1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.

1945 - Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Famous Birthdays:

1838 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen regnant of Hawaii, last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii

1883 - Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria

1931 - Clifford Jordan, saxophonist

1946 - Luis Avalos, actor

1960 - Rex Hudler, baseball player

1971 - Pawan Kalyan, actor

1988 - Ishant Sharma, cricketer

September 1st in History

1532 - Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.

1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years - the longest of any major European monarch.

1763 - Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow

1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.


1914 - St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.

1914 - The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.

1939 - World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia and Russia Soviet Union invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.

1939 - Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.

1958 - Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.


1961 - The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.

1969 - A coup in Libya brings Muammar al-Gaddafi to power.

1981 - A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.

1991 - Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union

Famous Birthdays:

1588 - Henry II, Prince of Condé

1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia, consort of Tsar Alexei I of Russia

1711 - William IV, Prince of Orange

1818 - José María Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica and founder of the Republic

1908 - Amir Elahi, cricketer

1926 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, former President of Bangladesh

1946 - Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea

1962 - Tony Cascarino, footballer

1966 - Tim Hardaway, basketball player

1982 - Jeffrey Buttle, figure skater