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September 17 in history

265 sourced entries recorded on September 17, from 525 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 525 BCEVenus occults Antares. The next such occurrence will not take place until November 17, 2400 AD.source
  • 424(Yuanjia era, 1st year, 8th month (bāyuè), dingyou day) Prince Liu Yilong is formally enthroned as the Emperor Wen of Song of China at its capital in Jiankang.source
  • 456Remistus, Roman general (magister militum), is besieged with a Gothic force at Ravenna and later executed in the Palace in Classis, outside the city.source
  • 680Theodore of Tarsus, archbishop of Canterbury, convenes a synod at Hatfield that clears the English Church from any association with the heresy of monothelitism.source
  • 1156Frederick I makes the Margraviate of Austria a duchy and gives the Babenberg Dynasty special privileges (the Privilegium Minus).source
  • 1176Battle of Myriokephalon: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine forces led by Manuel I, who are ambushed when moving through a narrow mountain pass near Lake Beyşehir. The Byzantines are dispersed and surrounded. They suffer heavy casualties and their siege equipment is destroyed. Manuel flees in panic and is forced to sign a peace treaty with Kilij Arslan II.source
  • 1179A large offensive, by the Almohad army led by Yusuf I in southern Portugal, aims at the reconquest of the Alentejo. Further north, an Almohad fleet sails to attack Lisbon, but is repelled by the Portuguese, near the Cape Espichel. The Portuguese fleet later manages to enter in the harbour of Ceuta, and destroy a number of Muslim ships. It is the beginning of a four-year naval conflict between the Almohads and Portuguese.source
  • 1248Louis IX arrives at Limassol on the island of Cyprus. He gathers his forces and is well received by King Henry I of Cyprus ("the Fat"). The Crusaders are supplemented by nobles from Acre, including Grand Masters Jean de Ronay and Guillaume de Sonnac. Louis prepares a plan of campaign, with Egypt as the prime objective.source
  • 1322Louis Dampierre becomes the new Count of Flanders (the Flemish-speaking half of modern-day Belgium) upon the death of his grandfather, Robert III, "The Lion of Flanders". Louis has become Count of Nevers upon the July 22 death of his father (and Robert's eldest son), Count Louis.source
  • 1374King Lajos of Hungary, in his role as King Ludwik of Poland, promulgates the Privilege of Koszyce, granting major concessions to the nobles of Poland in return for the nobles' pledge that they will recognize his daughter, Jadwiga, as the reigning monarch upon his death. The privileges granted are a release from paying a tribute to the King as a form of property tax, except for a token amount, limiting appointments to office to persons of Polish ethnicity, release from obligations to build and repair towns, bridges and castles, release from payment of the king's expenses, and a reimbursement by the King to the nobles to pay soldiers' wages.source
  • 1382Following the death of King Lajos, his daughter Mary is crowned the "King" of Hungary in a ceremony at Székesfehérvár, carried out by Cardinal Demeter, Archbishop of Esztergom.source
  • 1388The title of Prince of Asturias is created for the heir to the Spanish Crown, initially by King Juan of Castile for his son Enrique.source
  • 1390John VII Palaiologos seeks refuge with the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, after John V Palaiologos is restored by his son, Manuel, and the Republic of Venice.source
  • 1394King Charles VI of France orders the expulsion of all Jews from France.source
  • 1426September 17 (15 Dhu al-Qidah 829 AH) – Barakat ibn Hasan arrives in Mecca to officially assume the powers of the Emir of Mecca, after taking back over from his brother Abu al-Qasim.source
  • 1445Đurađ Branković, Despot of Serbia, and his sons Grgur, Stefan and Lazar sign a charter confirming the sovereignty and privileges of the Republic of Ragusa, located in what is now Croatia.source
  • 1462Thirteen Years' War – Battle of Świecino (Battle of Żarnowiec): The Kingdom of Poland defeats the Teutonic Order.source
  • 1475At the royal capital, Pekan, Ahmad Shah I of Pahang becomes the new Sultan of Pahang (now one of the federal states within Malaysia) upon the death of his younger brother, Muhammad Shahsource
  • 1516Based in Kamaran, an island in the Red Sea, the Mamluk Egyptian Admiral Selman Reis leads of fleet 19 ships in an unsuccessful attempt to take Yemen and Aden.source
  • 1549The Council of Trent is prorogued indefinitely.source
  • 1566November 12 – Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, campaigns against O'Neill in Armagh, Tír Eoghain and Tyrconnell, reaching Derry on October 12. Humphrey Gilbert serves under him at the start of the campaign.source
  • 1569Pope Pius V issues the papal bull Consueverunt Romani Pontifices setting specific elements for the devotion of the Rosary.source
  • 1577The Treaty of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.source
  • 1577The Treaty of Bergerac is signed between king Henry III and the Huguenots and ended the Sixth War of Religion.source
  • 1584In what is now Belgium, the Calvinist Republic of Ghent comes to an end after seven years when its capital, Ghent, falls following a siege of 13 months. Jan van Hembyze, leader of the republic since October 1583, surrenders the city to Alexander Farnese, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands.source
  • 1594A fleet of six ships, commanded by the privateer Martin Frobisher, arrives at Morlaix and prepares to bombard the city, under siege by the French Army. The Spanish Army commander of the Morlaix garrison surrenders, rather than facing the city's destruction.source
  • 1598Second Dutch Expedition to Indonesia: Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck and three ships commanded by him are separated from the Dutch Republic fleet of Admiral Wybrand van Warwyck, and land on a Portuguese-charted island, Ilha do Cisne. Van Neck names the island Mauritius, after Maurice, Prince of Orange. Although Diogo Fernandes Pereira and sailors from Portugal had, in 1507, become the first Europeans to find Mauritius, van Neck's men apparently are the first to sight the dodo, a now extinct bird.source
  • 1615Los Baños, Laguna, is founded by Spanish colonists on Luzon island in the Philippines.source
  • 1620October 7 – Battle of Cecora: The Ottoman Empire defeats Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth–Moldavian troops.source
  • 1630September 17 (September 7 Old Style) – The settlement of Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded.source
  • 1631Thirty Years' War – Battle of Breitenfeld: Tilly's Holy Roman Imperial army is decisively defeated by Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden, shattering the imperial army of the Holy Roman Empire, and marking the first significant victory for the Protestants in the war.source
  • 1631Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Breitenfeld, Tilly's imperial army is defeated by Gustavus II Adolphus, shattering the imperial army of the Holy Roman Empire and marking the first significant victory for the Protestants in the war.source
  • 1634September 16–17 – Edict and declaration of the king at Monceaux ordering establishment of a sovereign council at Nancy (continues to 13 July 1637).source
  • 1656The Second Protectorate Parliament assembles.source
  • 1656Miles Sindercombe makes a failed assassination attempt on Oliver Cromwell.source
  • 1658Portuguese Restoration War: In the Battle of Vilanova, a Spanish army, having crossed the Minho, defeats the Portuguese.source
  • 1665Charles II of Spain becomes king while not yet four years old.source
  • 1668Riksens Ständers Bank (The Bank of the Estates of the Realm), the oldest central bank in the world, is established in Stockholm to replace the failed Stockholms Banco.source
  • 1674Sukjong of the Joseon Dynasty, age 13, becomes the new Emperor of Korea upon the death of his father, the Emperor Hyeonjong. Sukjong reigns for more than 45 years until his death on July 12, 1720.source
  • 1677Troops from Denmark invade and capture the Swedish island of Rügen and drive out the local population. Five months later, on January 18, 1678, Sweden recaptures the island. Nine months later, troops from Denmark and Brandenburg invade for a third time and capture the island again on October 22, 1678. Eight months later, Denmark is given the island back under a treaty ending the Swedish-Brandenburg War on June 29, but by then, the island of Rügen is in ruins. In modern times, the island becomes a vacation resort in Germany.source
  • 1678The Franco-Dutch War between the Kingdom of France and the Dutch Republic (and its allies) comes to an end after more than six years as the Treaties of Nijmegen bring about a ceasefire.source
  • 1683The newly constructed St Mary's Church, Blessington, County Wicklow is dedicatedsource
  • 1696On Canada's Hudson Bay, the English Navy recaptures the York Factory from France, three years after the French had captured it, and renamed the site "Fort Bourbon".source
  • 1705First Javanese War of Succession: On the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia), Pakubuwono I becomes the new Sultan of Martaram, capturing Kartosuro and deposing Sultan Amangkurat III.source
  • 1730Mahmud I (died 1754) succeeds Ahmed III (ruled since 1703) as Ottoman Emperor.source
  • 1745Jacobite rising: In Edinburgh, Charles Stuart proclaims his father James Francis Edward Stuart as James VIII of Scotland.source
  • 1755Jean-Marc Vacheron founds his watch-making company Vacheron Constantin. To this day, Vacheron Constantin is the oldest watchmaker in the world with an uninterrupted watchmaking history since its foundation. 'Treasures of Vacheron Constantin: A Legacy of Watchmaking since 1755'source
  • 1771September 15–17 – The Moscow plague riot results from an outbreak of bubonic plague, which kills 57,000.source
  • 1774Clifton House, Belfast, the Belfast Charitable Society's poorhouse, is opened.source
  • 1776The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.source
  • 1778The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware).source
  • 17821782 Central Atlantic hurricane devastates a Royal Navy fleet off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland with the loss of 3,500 lives.source
  • 1784The Barony of Guldborgland is established by Poul Abraham Lehn from the manors of Orebygård and Berritzgaard.source
  • 1787The United States Constitution is signed by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.source
  • 1789William Herschel discovers Mimas, another of Saturn's moons.source
  • 1793The Army of the Eastern Pyrenees, one of the French Revolutionary armies, defeats a Spanish force at the Battle of Peyrestortes.source
  • 1796U.S. President George Washington issues his Farewell Address, which warns against partisan politics and foreign entanglements. In addition, he sets a precedent by declining to run for a third term.source
  • 1809Finnish War: The Peace of Hamina is signed between Russia and Sweden. The future Grand Duchy of Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.source
  • 1809Treaty of Fredrikshamn - Sweden cedes Finland to Russiasource
  • 1811Completion of The Cob embankment across Traeth Mawr by William Madocks is celebrated. His nearby model town of Tremadog is also completed by this year.source
  • 1812The celebration of the completion of the embankment, later known as the 'Cob' in Porthmadogsource
  • 1823Pamplona surrenders to French forces after a five-month siege.source
  • 18281828 Siebold typhoon: A typhoon kills approximately 10,000 people in Kyūshū, Japan.source
  • 1835Viscount of Vilarinho de São Romão, a title created by Queen Maria IIsource
  • 1838After almost four decades in Rome, Bertel Thorvaldsen, accompanied by his art collections and most of his own works, returns to Copenhagen.source
  • 1842September 16–17 – The Treaty of Chushul ends the Dogra–Tibetan war (Sino-Sikh War).source
  • 1843The University of Chile opens.source
  • 1847The National Statistics Institute (Chile) is established.source
  • 1848The first attempt at photography is made in New Zealand. Lieutenant-Governor Eyre is unsuccessful in his attempt to take a daguerreotype of Eliza Grey, wife of Governor Grey.source
  • 1849The Stony Monday Riot takes place in Bytownsource
  • 1857The Folketeatret opens in Copenhagen.source
  • 1859In San Francisco, Joshua Norton proclaims himself to be His Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.source
  • 1861Argentine Civil War: Battle of Pavón: Victory of Buenos Aires over the Argentine Confederation, and the re-unification of Argentina.source
  • 1861the SS Great Eastern, with a badly damaged rudder, anchors in Cork Harbour for temporary repairs.source
  • 1863royal burgh of Linlithgow enters bankruptcy.source
  • 1864American Civil War: The Second Battle of Cabin Creek is fought in Indian Territory.source
  • 1872Shiseido Pharmacy Shop, predecessor of Shiseido, a major worldwide cosmetics brand, is founded in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan.source
  • 1873The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, later Ohio State University, opens its doors with 25 students, including 2 women.source
  • 18781878 Canadian federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald and his Conservative Party are returned to power, defeating the incumbent Liberal Party, led by Alexander Mackenzie.source
  • 1878In the Nova Scotia election, Simon Hugh Holmes's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Philip Carteret Hill's Liberals.source
  • 1879The Sydney International Exhibition opens at the Garden Palace.source
  • 1888Las Cruces College (later New Mexico State University) is founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico.source
  • 1889American Civil War veteran Charles Jefferson Wright founds New York Military Academy, with 75 students on 30 acres of land in Cornwall, New York.source
  • 1892inauguration of new psychiatric hospital in Caracassource
  • 1894Battle of the Yalu River (1894)source
  • 1899The career of bandit John Francis Peggotty ends in the town of Meningie, South Australia, when Peggotty's intended victim shoots both the bandit and the ostrich. The body of the ostrich is found, but Peggotty is never seen again.source
  • 1900Philippine–American War: Battle of Mabitac – Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat the Americans.source
  • 1902Opera singer Nellie Melba arrives in Brisbane for her first Australian tour after 16 years in Europe.source
  • 1904An early study on the relationship between alcohol and cardiovascular disease is published in the United States.source
  • 1905September 11 – 19 die and 48 are seriously injured when the Ninth Avenue Elevated train derails in Manhattan.source
  • 1908At Fort Myer, Virginia, Thomas Selfridge becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash. The pilot, Orville Wright, is severely injured in the crash but recovers.source
  • 1908At Fort Myer, Virginia, U.S.A. Thomas Selfridge becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash. The pilot, Orville Wright, is severely injured in the crash, but makes a recovery.source
  • 1909militant suffragette Mabel Capper is among the first to suffer force-feeding while on hunger strike, at Winson Green Prison in Birmingham.source
  • 1912The Pentecostal church in Skövde is founded as one of the first Pentecostal churches in Sweden.source
  • 1913In Chicago, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith is founded, with Sigmund Livingston as its first president.source
  • 1916September 15–22 – WWI: Battle of Flers–Courcelette, France – The battle is significant for the first use of the tank in warfare; also for the debut of the Canadian and New Zealand Divisions in the Battle of the Somme.source
  • 1919German South West Africa is placed under South African administration.source
  • 1920The National Football League is established, as the American Professional Football Association.source
  • 1920The Victory Medal, a commemorative military medal of Japan awarded to mark service during the First World War, is established by Imperial Edict.source
  • 1922Dutch cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champion sprinter.source
  • 19231923 Berkeley fire: A major fire in Berkeley, California, erupts, consuming some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California.source
  • 19231923 Berkeley Fire: Berkeley, California erupts, consuming some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California.source
  • 1923C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo, a Salvadoran soccer team, was established.source
  • 192421 days long fasting by Mahatma Gandhi for Hindu - Muslim unity.source
  • 1929A coup ousts Augustinas Voldemaras from his prime minister position in Lithuania; he is replaced by the brother-in-law of President Antanas Smetona, Juozas Tūbelis.source
  • 1930The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.source
  • 1932A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident between Colombia and Peru.source
  • 1932Start of the Han–Liu War over Shandong.source
  • 1935Manuel L. Quezon is elected 2nd President of the Philippines.source
  • 1937Abraham Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.source
  • 1939The Soviet Union invades Poland, and then occupies eastern Polish territories.source
  • 1939October 6 — Soviet invasion of Polandsource
  • 1940September 17–18 – WWII: SS City of Benares is torpedoed by GS U-48 in the Atlantic, with the loss of 248 of the 406 on board, including child evacuees bound for Canada. This results in cancellation of the British Children's Overseas Reception Board's plan to relocate children overseas.source
  • 1942Irish Larch rescues forty survivors from the Panamanian ship Stone Street in the Atlantic.source
  • 1943WWII: Villefranche-de-Rouergue Mutiny – A group of pro-Partisan soldiers, led by Ferid Džanić and others within the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian), training in occupied France, rise against Nazi German troops in the Division; the revolt is rapidly suppressed.source
  • 1947September 17–21 – The 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane in southeastern Florida, and also in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana causes widespread damage, and kills 50 people.source
  • 1948September 13–18 – Indian annexation of Hyderabad ("Operation Polo"): The princely state of Hyderabad is invaded by the Indian Armed Forces in a "police action", in the aftermath of Pakistani leader Jinnah's death. The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his state, which is amalgamated into the newly independent Dominion of India; thousands are killed as a result of this event.source
  • 1948Lehi members, also known as the Stern Gang, assassinate Swedish count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations Mediator in Palestine, in Jerusalem.source
  • 1948According to Japanese government official document figures, a flooding river, levee collapse in around Kitakami River area by strong Typhoon Ione hit in northern Honshu, total 848 persons were lost to their lives with 1,956 persons were hurt.source
  • 1949Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour, with the loss of over 118 lives.source
  • 1949Warner Bros. cartoon, "Fast and Furry-ous" is released. It also marks the debut of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. The director is Chuck Jones (credited as Charles M. Jones).source
  • 1954William Golding's allegorical dystopian novel Lord of the Flies is published in London.source
  • 1955September 10–20: Hurricane Hilda (1955).source
  • 1959September 15–28 – USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his wife tour the United States, at the invitation of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.source
  • 1959The hypersonic North American X-15 research aircraft, piloted by Scott Crossfield, makes its first powered flight at Edwards Air Force Base, California.source
  • 1960King Bhumibol of Thailand makes a state visit to Luxembourg, lasting until 19 September.source
  • 1961Military rulers in Turkey hang former prime minister Adnan Menderes, together with the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Fatin Rüştü Zorlu and former Minister of Finance Hasan Polatkan.source
  • 1961London police arrest over 1,300 protesters in Trafalgar Square during a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament rally.source
  • 1961The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.source
  • 1967Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked not to.source
  • 1968The D'Oliveira affair: The Marylebone Cricket Club tour of South Africa is cancelled when the South Africans refuse to accept the presence of Basil D'Oliveira, a Cape Coloured, in the England side.source
  • 1968The first A&W store opens at MSA Building, making it Singapore's first fast food restaurant. This went on until 2003, when A&W decided to leave Singapore. It made a return in 2019 to Jewel Changi Airport.source
  • 1968The Marylebone Cricket Club tour of South Africa is cancelled when South Africa refuses to accept the presence of Basil D'Oliveira in the side.source
  • 1970Black September: King Hussein of Jordan orders the Jordanian Armed Forces to oust Palestinian fedayeen from Jordan.source
  • 1971Formation of Malik ministry in East Pakistan.source
  • 1971September 5–18: Hurricane Edith.source
  • 1976The space shuttle Enterprise is rolled out of a hangar in Palmdale, California, United States.source
  • 1977Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is arrested under martial law orders.source
  • 1978The Camp David Accords are signed between Israel and Egypt.source
  • 1978The Camp David Accords are signed between Israel and Egypt. The Accords lead directly to the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.source
  • 1979September 14–21: Hurricane Henri (1979)source
  • 1980After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.source
  • 1981The new Rajang Area Security Command (RASCOM) headquarters was officially opened in Sibu, Sarawak.source
  • 1981Ric Flair defeats Dusty Rhodes to win his first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Kansas City.source
  • 1984Brian Mulroney is sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1987Religious leaders, including Desmond Tutu, hold talks with the African National Congress in Zambia.source
  • 1987September 7–21 – The world's first conference on artificial life is held at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.source
  • 1988China National Petroleum Corporation was established, as changing from Petroleum and chemical industrial section of PRC. (People's Republic of China)source
  • 1988September 8–19: Hurricane Gilbertsource
  • 1988October 2 – The 1988 Summer Olympics are held in Seoul, South Korea.source
  • 1988October 2 – 1988 Summer Olympics are held in Seoul.source
  • 1989Central Bank announces that rescheduled foreign debts have been repaid.source
  • 1989September 17–22 – Hurricane Hugo devastates the Caribbean and the southeastern United States, causing at least 71 deaths and $8,000,000,000 in damages.source
  • 1991September 16–19: Tropical Storm Ignacio (1991).source
  • 1991Home Improvement premieres on ABC.source
  • 1993The last Russian military personnel leave Poland.source
  • 1993September 15–21 – Hurricane Gert crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through Central America and Mexico.source
  • 19951995 Hong Kong legislative election is held.source
  • 1998Basque conflict: Basque Homeland and Liberty reaches a ceasefire agreement with the government of Spain, the second such agreement in two years.source
  • 2001George W. Bush, president of the United States, delivers remarks at the Islamic Center of Washington praising Muslim Americans and condemning Islamophobia in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.source
  • 2002September 14–27 – Hurricane Isidore crosses Cuba, the Yucatán Peninsula, and Louisiana.source
  • 2005September 17-25 - Croatia hosted the 2005 Women's European Volleyball Championship in Pula and Zagreb.source
  • 2008Rwanda becomes the first nation where women outnumber men in parliament.source
  • 2011Former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra visits Cambodia for high-level talks with the government of Cambodia over a variety of issues, including the ownership of Preah Vihear.source
  • 2011Occupy Wall Street protests begin in the United States. This develops into the Occupy movement which spreads to 82 countries by October.source
  • 2013Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.source
  • 2014Voters in Fiji go to the polls for the first election since a coup in 2006, with coup leader Voreqe Bainimarama's FijiFirst Party achieving almost 60 per cent of the vote.source
  • 2017September 16-17 - Nursultan Nazarbayev becomes the first foreign leader to visit President Mirziyoyev Tashkent.source
  • 2018Syrian Civil War: While the Israeli Air Force conduct missile strikes that hit targets in western Syria, a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance plane is shot down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile, killing all 15 Russian servicemen on board. Russia blamed Israel's military for the accident because the Israeli jets that conducted the strikes allegedly used the Russian plane as cover to allow them to approach their targets without being hit by Syrian fire.source
  • 2018The Red Sea Development forms a 12-member advisory board.source
  • 2019Interest rates on repurchase agreements (or "repos") in the United States experience a sudden and unexpected spike.source
  • 2020France, Germany, and the United Kingdom issue a joint note verbale to the United Nations rejecting China's claims to the South China Sea, and supporting the ruling in Philippines v. China that said the historic rights per the nine-dash line ran counter to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. However, the statement says that on "territorial sovereignty" they "take no position".source
  • 2020The U.N. warns that record flooding and locust swarms threaten food security in South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Sudan.source
  • 2021Suspected criminals, known locally as Dahalo, attacked the villages of Ambohitsohy and Vohitsimbe in Marovitsika Commune, Befotaka Atsi Region. The incidents involved up to 120 assailants. At least 46 people were killed in the clashes, including 42 suspected Dahalo and four villagers. The motive for the incident is not clear; however, attacks have been linked to cultural practices involving cattle rustling.source
  • 2022September 14–September 25 – The Atlantic hurricane Fiona hits Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Lucayan Archipelago, Bermuda, and Eastern Canada.source
  • 2024The Taliban announces the reopening of the Afghan embassy in Muscat.source
  • 2025September 13–21 – The 2025 World Athletics Championships are held in Tokyo, Japan.source

Births

  • 879Charles the Simple, king of the West Frankish Kingdom (died 929)source
  • 1192Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shōgun (died 1219)source
  • 1312William Donn de Burgh, Irish nobleman (died 1333)source
  • 1312William Donn de Burgh, Irish noble (died 1333)source
  • 1433James of Portugal, Portuguese cardinal (died 1459)source
  • 1550Pope Paul V (died 1621)source
  • 1565Edward Fortunatus, German nobleman (died 1600)source
  • 1578John Prideaux, English academic administrator and Anglican bishop (died 1650)source
  • 1629Sir John Perceval, 1st Baronet, Anglo-Irish nobleman (died 1665)source
  • 1677Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (died 1761)source
  • 1677Stephen Hales, physiologist, chemist and inventor (died 1761)source
  • 1719James Smith, signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence (died 1806)source
  • 1730Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (died 1794)source
  • 1734Elizabeth Canning, English maidservant and kidnappee (died 1773)source
  • 1743Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (died 1794)source
  • 1744Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey, father of Lady Charlotte Guest (died 1818)source
  • 1773Jonathan Alder, American settler (died 1849)source
  • 1776Langdon Cheves, American politician (died 1857)source
  • 1776Langdon Cheves, politician (died 1857)source
  • 1783Nadezhda Durova, first female Russian army officer (died 1866)source
  • 1783Samuel Prout, English painter (died 1852)source
  • 1819Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, the first president of the South African Republic and founder of Pretoria, is born on the farm Pretoriuskloof in the Graaff-Reinet district of the Cape Colonysource
  • 1820Earl van Dorn, American Confederate general (died 1863)source
  • 1825Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1893)source
  • 1836William Jackson Palmer, American founder of Colorado Springs, Colorado (died 1909)source
  • 1859William H. Bonney (Billy The Kid), American outlaw, gunfighter (died 1881)source
  • 1929Stirling Moss, British Formula One racing driver (died 2020)source
  • 1950Narendra Modi, 14th Prime Minister of Indiasource
  • 1975Jimmie Johnson, American race car driversource
  • 1991Mena Massoud, Egyptian-born Canadian actorsource
  • 1995Patrick Mahomes, American football playersource
  • 1996Esteban Ocon, French racing driversource

Deaths

  • 456Remistus, Roman general (magister militum)source
  • 936Unni, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremensource
  • 958Li Jingsui, Chinese prince (born 920)source
  • 1025Hugh Magnus, king of France (born 1007)source
  • 1106Manasses II, archbishop of Reimssource
  • 1148Conan III, duke of Brittany (born 1095)source
  • 1174Pietro di Miso, Italian cardinalsource
  • 1176John Kantakouzenos, Byzantine generalsource
  • 1179Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess (born 1098)source
  • 1179Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and polymath, dies at Rupertsberg. Having founded two monasteries, she has also written theological, botanical, and medicinal texts.source
  • 1200Guang Zong, Chinese emperor (born 1147)source
  • 1224Emperor Ning Zong of the Chinese Song dynasty dies at Hangzhou, possibly from poisoning, after a 30-year reign. He is succeeded by his relative, Li Zong, as all of Ning Zong's children have died.source
  • 1224Ning Zong, Chinese emperor (born 1168)source
  • 1225William VI, marquis of Montferrat (born 1173)source
  • 1322Robert III, Flemish nobleman and knight (born 1249)source
  • 1415Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (killed in battle) (born 1367)source
  • 1422Emperor Constantine II of Bulgaria (born after 1370)source
  • 1424Catherine, Princess of Asturias, Castilian royal (born 1422)source
  • 1425Bonne of Artois, Duchess of Burgundy (born 1396)source
  • 1459Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra, Portuguese Duchess (born 1409)source
  • 1462Anna of Saxony, Landgravine of Hesse, German royalty (born 1420)source
  • 1482William III, Landgrave of Thuringia, Duke of Luxembourg (born 1425)source
  • 1510Giorgione, Italian painter (born c. 1477)source
  • 1533Philip I, Margrave of Baden (born 1479)source
  • 1563Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier (born 1526)source
  • 1565September 11–20 – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (born 1515)source
  • 1574Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Spanish admiral and explorer (born 1519)source
  • 1575Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (born 1504)source
  • 1609Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (born 1525)source
  • 1621Robert Bellarmine, Italian Roman Catholic bishop, saint, proponent of futurism (born 1542)source
  • 1630Thomas Lake, English statesman (born 1567)source
  • 1632Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia (born 1607)source
  • 1665King Philip IV of Spain (born 1605)source
  • 1674Hyeonjong of Joseon, 18th monarch of the Korean Joseon Dynasty (born 1641)source
  • 1676Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (born 1626)source
  • 1697Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha becomes the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire in the wake of the disastrous Ottoman defeat at Zenta, replacing Grand Vizier Elmas Mehmed Pasha, who was killed in the battle by his own troops.source
  • 1701Stanislaus Papczyński, Polish priest (born 1631)source
  • 1702Olaus Rudbeck, Swedish architect (born 1630)source
  • 1721Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, French princess (born 1645)source
  • 1771Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (born 1721)source
  • 1808Benjamin Bourne, American politician (born 1755)source
  • 1823Abraham-Louis Breguet, Swiss horologist, inventor (born 1747)source
  • 1836Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (born 1748)source
  • 1858Dred Scott, African-American slave (born c. 1795)source
  • 1873Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer, Australian pioneer (born 1781)source
  • 1877Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer (born 1800)source
  • 1879Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (born 1814)source
  • 1888Iulia Hasdeu, poet, first Romanian woman to study at the University of Paris (born 1869).source
  • 1941September 16–30 – The Nikolaev massacre takes place in Mykolaiv (Soviet Union); 35,782 men, women and children, mostly Jews, are killed by Einsatzgruppe D and local collaborators.source
  • 195715 Children from the Arab village Sandala are killed while playing with a mortar shell which was fired but wasn't exploded during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.source
  • 1971Hugo L. Black retires as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States after serving for 34 years, at this time a record for longevity; Black dies eight days later.source
  • 1996Spiro Agnew, 77, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States, leukemia.source
  • 1997Red Skelton, 84, American comedian (The Red Skelton Show), pneumonia.source
  • 2000Dem Rădulescu, 68, Romanian actor, heart attack.source
  • 2000Georgiy Gongadze, journalistsource
  • 2024September 17–18 – Thirty-two people are killed and more than 3,200 are injured after pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah militants and medics explode in two massive cyberattacks. Israel is the presumed perpetrator.source