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September 18 in history

235 sourced entries recorded on September 18, from 14 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 14Tiberius succeeds his stepfather Augustus as Roman emperor.source
  • 96Emperor Domitian is stabbed to death by a freedman at the age 44 after a 15-year reign, in a palace conspiracy involving officers of the Praetorian Guard. The Flavian Dynasty ends.source
  • 324Battle of Chrysopolis: Constantine I definitively defeats Licinius at Chrysopolis, and becomes sole Emperor, thus ending the period of the Tetrarchy. Licinius escapes and gathers around 30,000 of his surviving troops at Nicomedia. Thus, the Civil wars of the Tetrarchy, which began in 306, end with Constantine ruling as sole Emperor.source
  • 1048Battle of Kapetron: A combined Byzantine-Georgian army, under Byzantine generals Aaronios and Katakalon Kekaumenos (supported by the Georgian duke Liparit IV), confronts the invading Seljuk Turks, led by Ibrahim Inal (a half-brother of Sultan Tughril), at Kapetron (near modern-day Pasinler). The Byzantines defeat their opposing Turkish forces in the flanks, but in the centre Ibrahim Inal captures Liparit, and can safely withdraw from Byzantine territory, laden with spoils and captives, including Liparit.source
  • 1066Harald Hardrada of Norway lands on the beaches of Scarborough, North Yorkshire and begins his invasion of England.source
  • 1214Treaty of Chinon: John of England makes a truce with Philip II at the Castle of Chinon, and recognizes the Capetian (French) territorial gains at the expense of the Angevin Empire.source
  • 1214Treaty of Chinon: John of England and Philip II of France agree to a truce at the Castle of Chinon, in which John of England recognises the Capetian (French) territorial gains at the expense of the Angevin Empire formally ending the Anglo-French war of 1213–14.source
  • 1339Emperor Go-Murakami accedes to the throne of Japan.source
  • 1385Battle of Savra: Serbian forces under Balša II and Ivaniš Mrnjavčević are defeated by Ottoman commander Hayreddin Pasha, near Berat.source
  • 1401Jingnan campaign: The Yan principality defeats the Chinese imperial forces at Beiping after a siege of more than two months.source
  • 1418Prince Yi Do, son of Korea's King Emeritus Taejong, is enthroned as King Sejong, and will make major reforms during his reign of more than 30 years.source
  • 142918 (Dhu al-Hijjah 832 AH) The Hafsid Sultanate Saracens, ruled by the Hafsid Caliph Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz II and commanded by Kaid Ridavan, depart from Tunis with 70 ships and 18,000 troops in an attempt to capture Malta, but are repelled by its defenders.source
  • 1444As the Crusade of Varna resumes, the 16,000 Christian soldiers under the command of Wladyslaw and Hunyadi begin crossing over the Danube river near Belgrade and complete their crossing into Ottoman Muslim territory in Bulgaria.source
  • 1454Thirteen Years' War – Battle of Chojnice: The Polish army is defeated by a smaller but more professional Teutonic army.source
  • 1468The Great Council of the Republic of Venice curbs the power of the Council of Ten through legislation restricting them to acting on emergency matters.source
  • 1490The coronation of Vladislaus II as King of Hungary takes place at Székesfehérvár.source
  • 1499Vasco da Gama arrives at Lisbon, returning from India, and is received by King Manuel of Portugal.source
  • 1501Aleksandras Jogailaitis, Grand Duke of Lithuania, issues a decree requiring all Roman Catholic priests in the Duchy to become fluent in the Lithuanian language.source
  • 1502Christopher Columbus lands at Central America at what is now Costa Rica.source
  • 1538Ştefan V Lăcustă of the Bogdan-Musat dynasty in Romania is appointed as the new Prince of Moldavia by the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman, replacing uncle, Petru Rareș.source
  • 1544Peace of Crépy: Peace is declared between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Francis I of France. The war between France and England continues.source
  • 1544The Treaty of Crépy is signed between representatives of King Francis I and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.source
  • 1544The expedition of Juan Bautista Pastene makes landfall in San Pedro Bay, southern Chile, claiming the territory for Spain.source
  • 1560After Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill, a Scottish Catholic, continues to resist the Scottish Reformation, the Duke of Châtellerault and the Earl of Arran commence a siege of Castle Semple at Lochwinnoch. They begin firing artillery at the castle on September 23 and destroys the gatehouse.source
  • 1598The Battle of Stegeborg results in victory for the Polish-Swedish unionists.source
  • 1600The Battle of Mirăslău takes place within Transylvania as Hungarian troops, backed by the Holy Roman Empire, triumph over the Principality of Wallachia, backed by Poland. Hungarian General Giorgio Basta brings 30,000 men against the 22,000 commanded by Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave. The Wallachians sustain more than 5,000 dead and wounded.source
  • 1618Beginning of the 13th Baktun, in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar (12.0.0.0.0).source
  • 1622Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland, is sworn in as Lord Deputy of Ireland.source
  • 1632Cardinal de la Cueva, Spanish ambassador, leaves Brussels.source
  • 1636September 18 (September 8 Old Style) – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes New College (Harvard University), as the first college founded in the United States.source
  • 1639Dutch Navy Admiral Maarten Tromp introduces the line of battle tactic in a battle in the English Channel against a much larger force of Spanish Navy ships, driving off 67 ships with his fleet of 29.source
  • 1641In France, the siege of Bapaume ends with the surrender of the fortress by its Spanish occupiers.source
  • 1641In Germany, the Siege of Dorsten by the Holy Roman Empire ends after nine weeks with the surrender of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel after the Hessians suffer 1,350 casualties.source
  • 1641The siege of Bapaume ends with the surrender of the fortress by its Spanish occupiers.source
  • 1675The Narragansetts sign a treaty with the English in Boston; meanwhile, Massachusetts troops are ambushed near Northampton, Massachusetts.source
  • 1677the Kangxi Emperor of China grants titles and ranks to all of his wives, and names Empress Xiaozhaoren as his consort.source
  • 1679The Province of New Hampshire is separated from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.source
  • 1691War of the Grand Alliance: English and Dutch forces are defeated by the French in the Battle of Leuze.source
  • 1691War of the Grand Alliance: English and Dutch forces defeated by the French at the Battle of Leuze.source
  • 1701Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, sworn as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (appointed 1700).source
  • 1707October 4 – War of the Spanish Succession: The Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, led by troops under the command of Alexandre Maître, begins and lasts for 16 days. On the final day, General Maitre begins the attack that takes the fortress within 45 minutes.source
  • 1711Bishop Bogusław Gosiewski sells the town of Maladzyechna in the Minsk Region of Belarus to the mighty Ogiński family.source
  • 1714George I, the new King of Great Britain and Ireland, arrives in Britain for the first time in his life, after having departed Hannover and sailing from the Netherlands.source
  • 1714King George arrives in Britain for the first time, landing at Greenwich.source
  • 1728John Deane, a colonial administrator of Britain's British East India Company, returns to Calcutta (Kolkata) after an absence of more than two years, and takes office at Fort William to return to administering the Bengal Presidency, an area now covering the Indian state of West Bengal and the nation of Bangladesh.source
  • 1738Samuel Johnson composes his first solemn prayer (published 1785).source
  • 1738Samuel Johnson composes his first solemn prayer (published 1785).source
  • 1739The Treaty of Belgrade brings the Austro-Russian–Turkish War (1735–39) to an end.source
  • 1740George Anson sets out on his voyage around the world from Spithead.source
  • 1753Britain's Board of Trade sends a directive to the colonial and provincial governors of Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania ordering them to send delegates to a summit meeting with the Iroquois Confederacy. The message instructs the governors that King George II has ordered "a Sum of Money to be issued for Presents to the Six Nations of Indians" and ordering New York's Governor George Clinton "to hold an Interview with them for delivering these Presents, for burying the Hatchet, and for renewing the Covenant Chain with them."source
  • 1755Two slaves, Mark and Phyllis, are publicly executed for the poisoning murder of their master, John Codman in front of a large crowd outside the Middlesex County Courthouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Phyllis is burned to death. Mark's execution by hanging is made as an example to other African slaves in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. His body is transported to Charlestown Common in what is now Somerville and displayed on a gibbet for more than 20 years. In 1798, Paul Revere mentions in his memoir that his famous ride of April 18, 1775, started when he first spotted British Army officers at a site "nearly opposite where Mark was hung in chains", I saw two men on Horse back, under a Tree".source
  • 1760The town (later city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, is founded.source
  • 1775Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband Henry on a visit to France.source
  • 1784Dardanus, opera by Antonio Sacchini, was first performed at Versaillessource
  • 1793United States Capitol cornerstone laying: President George Washington lays the cornerstone for the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.source
  • 179318 September-18 December – French Revolutionary Wars: Siege of Toulon – Admiral Hood's squadron of Royal Navy ships supporting French Royalists is forced to withdraw from Toulon after a successful siege by Napoleon, taking a number of French ships – including the Lutine – with them.source
  • 1793The cornerstone to the future United States Capitol is dedicated by U.S. President Washington at the site of the new Federal City on the Potomac River.source
  • 1798Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is first published anonymously in Bristol, marking the beginning of English literary Romanticism. Most of the poems are by Wordsworth, including Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, 13 July 1798, but also including the first publication of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere. First London publication is on 4 October.source
  • 1798Lyrical Ballads is published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, inaugurating the English Romantic movement in literature.source
  • 1799War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Mannheim – Victory of Archduke Charles and the Austrian army over a French force under Jacques Léonard Mullersource
  • 1809A new Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (pictured) opens in London to replace the first burnt down in 1808. An increase in ticket prices causes the Old Price Riots which last for 64 days.source
  • 1809A new theatre for the Royal Opera House opens in London to replace the first, burnt down in a fire in 1808. The price increases lead to the Old Price Riots, which last for 64 days.source
  • 1810Chile forms its First National Junta, which is the country's first step towards its independence.source
  • 1810The Government Junta of Chile (1810) is established.source
  • 1818the original Theatre Royal in Glasgow becomes the first theatre in Scotland to be lit by gas.source
  • 1821Amherst College is founded in Massachusetts.source
  • 1834Athens becomes Greece's capital city, replacing the provisional capital of Nafplio.source
  • 1838The Anti-Corn Law League is established in Britain by Richard Cobden.source
  • 1845The Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata is formally declared.source
  • 1846Chilean presidential election, 1846source
  • 1850The Fugitive Slave Law is passed by the United States Congress.source
  • 1850Harriet Tubman becomes an official conductor of the Underground Railroad.source
  • 1851The New York Times is founded in New York City.source
  • 1856Chilean presidential election, 1856source
  • 1860Battle of Castelfidardo: The Piedmontese decisively defeat the Papal forces, allowing them to continue their march into Neapolitan territory, and effectively reducing the Papal States to the territory around Rome.source
  • 1868The University of the South holds its first convocation in Sewanee, Tennessee.source
  • 1870Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn, during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition to Yellowstone in Wyoming.source
  • 1870Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.source
  • 1872Upon the death of King Charles XV and IV of Sweden-Norway, he is succeeded as King of both crowns by his brother Oscar II.source
  • 1873The New York stock market crashes as the Jay Cooke & Company investment firm declares bankruptcy, triggering the Panic of 1873, part of the Long Depression.source
  • 1873The New York stock market crash triggers the Panic of 1873, part of the Long Depression.source
  • 1880151 people were buried in a landslip at Naini Tal following 36 inch of rain in 68 hours.source
  • 1882Great Comet of 1882: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reports watching the comet rise a few minutes before the Sun, describing it as "The nucleus was then undoubtedly single, and certainly rather under than over 4″ in diameter; in fact, as I have described it, it resembled very much a star of the 1st magnitude seen by daylight."source
  • 1885The union of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria is proclaimed at Plovdiv.source
  • 1885Five Chinese people were lynched outside of Pierce City in the Idaho Territory of the United States.source
  • 1891The Chilean Civil War of 1891 ends with the suicide of deposed President José Manuel Balmaceda and victory for the Congressional party, beginning the country's Parliamentary Era.source
  • 1895Daniel David Palmer performs the first chiropractic spinal adjustment, on Harvey Lillard, whose complaint was partial deafness after an injury.source
  • 1898Fashoda Incident: A powerful flotilla of British gunboats arrives at the French-occupied fort of Fashoda on the White Nile, leading to a diplomatic stalemate, until French troops are ordered to withdraw on November 3.source
  • 1905September 11 – 19 die and 48 are seriously injured when the Ninth Avenue Elevated train derails in Manhattan.source
  • 1906A typhoon and tsunami kill an estimated 10,000 in Hong Kong.source
  • 1914Welsh Church Act, disestablishing the Church in Wales, receives Royal Assent, but simultaneously with the Suspensory Act which delays its coming into effect.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
  • 1916Cape – Idutywa to Umtata, 71 mi 13 ch.source
  • 1918WWI: Battle of Épehy – British approach the Hindenburg Line along the St Quentin Canal.source
  • 1922W. T. Cosgrave introduces the Constitution of Saorstát Éireann Bill to enable the implementation of the Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland.source
  • 1926Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates Miami, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion in the modern day).source
  • 1926Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates Miami, Florida, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion today).source
  • 1927The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed in the United States, and goes on the air with 47 radio stations.source
  • 1931The Japanese military stages the Mukden Incident, an explosion blamed on Chinese dissidents and used as a pretext for the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.source
  • 1934Soviet Union joins the League of Nations as a permanent Board membersource
  • 1938During a meeting between Neville Chamberlain, the recently elected Premier of France, Édouard Daladier, and Daladier's Foreign Minister, Georges Bonnet, it becomes apparent that neither the British nor the French governments are prepared to go to war over the Sudetenland. The Soviet Union declares it will come to the defence of Czechoslovakia only if France honours her commitment to defend Czechoslovak independence.source
  • 1939WWII: Orzeł incident: Polish submarine ORP Orzeł escapes internment from Tallinn Harbour, Estonia, leading both the Soviet Union and Germany to question Estonia's neutrality.source
  • 1939The Muslim League declares that the Federal scheme, now suspended, should be altogether abandoned.source
  • 1939C.D. Dragón, a Salvadoran football club, was established.source
  • 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
  • 1944Jüri Uluots, prime minister in capacity of president of Estonia, asks Otto Tief to form a government on the eve of the withdrawal of German forces; official gazette published proclaiming the Tief government.source
  • 1944After German forces declare the evacuation of Estonia the day before, the Estonian national government briefly resumes control of Tallinn before the Soviet advance.source
  • 1944British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Japanese "hell ship" Jun'yō Maru; 5,620 drown.source
  • 1945Typhoon Makurazaki kills 3,746 people in Japan.source
  • 1947The Department of War becomes the Department of the Army, a branch of the new Department of Defense.source
  • 1947The National Security Act of 1947 becomes effective on this day, creating the United States Air Force, National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.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
  • 1948An inaugural motor race is held at Goodwood Circuit, West Sussex, England.source
  • 1949Indian rupee suffers devaluation due to 30% devaluation of Pound sterling by Chancellor of the Exchequer.source
  • 1950Rede Tupi, the first television broadcast network in South America, is founded in Brazil.source
  • 1952The Soviet Union vetoes Japan's application for membership in the United Nations.source
  • 1954Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi is the first Western head of state to be awarded the highest honor of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin.source
  • 1954TARS is renamed TAROM (Transporturi Aeriene Române, Romanian Air Transport) to recognise the full ownership of the airline by the Romanian state.source
  • 1955The United Kingdom formally annexes the uninhabited Atlantic island of Rockall.source
  • 1955Democratic Party was founded.source
  • 1955September 10–20: Hurricane Hilda (1955).source
  • 1958BankAmericard, the first credit card to be widely offered, is launched in Fresno, California in what becomes known as the "Fresno Drop".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
  • 1960The first international Summer Paralympics open in Rome under the title "9th International Stoke Mandeville Games", the first quadrennial paralympic event outside of England.source
  • 19611961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash: Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld is one of 16 to die in an air crash en route to Katanga, Congo.source
  • 1963Rioters burn down the British Embassy in Jakarta, to protest the formation of Malaysia.source
  • 1964In Athens, King Constantine II of Greece marries Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, who becomes Europe's youngest Queen at age 18 years, 19 days.source
  • 1965Comet Ikeya–Seki is first sighted by Japanese astronomers.source
  • 1965Comet Ikeya–Seki first sighted by Japanese astronomers.source
  • 1965In Denmark, Palle Sørensen shoots 4 policemen in pursuit; he is apprehended the same day.source
  • 1968The Republic Act No. 5446 takes effect which regards Sabah as part of the Philippines.source
  • 1971September 5–18: Hurricane Edith.source
  • 1973The two German Republics, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), are admitted to the United Nations.source
  • 1973The Archbishop of Santiago Raúl Silva Henríquez performs the traditional Te deum of national holidays where General Augusto Pinochet and former presidents Jorge Alessandri, Gabriel González Videla participate. and Eduardo Frei Montalva.source
  • 1977Courageous (U.S.), skippered by Ted Turner, sweeps the Australian challenger Australia in the 24th America's Cup yacht race at Newport, Rhode Island.source
  • 1979September 14–21: Hurricane Henri (1979)source
  • 1981France's National Assembly votes to abolish Capital punishment in France.source
  • 1982Sabra and Shatila massacre: A Lebanese Christian militia (the Phalange) kill thousands of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut; the massacre is a response to the assassination of the president-elect, Bachir Gemayel, four days earlier.source
  • 1982The funeral of Princess Grace of Monaco takes place.source
  • 1984Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic, solo, in a hot air balloon.source
  • 1987September 7–21 – The world's first conference on artificial life is held at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.source
  • 1988September 8–19: Hurricane Gilbertsource
  • 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
  • 1990Provisional Irish Republican Army assassination attempt on the life of Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England. Hit by at least 9 bullets, the former Governor of Gibraltar survives, as does his wife, Lady Betty Terry, who is also shot (most likely by accident).source
  • 1990The International Olympic Committee awards the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta.source
  • 1991September 16–19: Tropical Storm Ignacio (1991).source
  • 1993September 15–21 – Hurricane Gert crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through Central America and Mexico.source
  • 1994The first tier of the 1994 Hong Kong electoral reform, pertaining to the reform of the local councils, was carried out by the last governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, to broaden the electorate base of the territory.source
  • 1997Wales votes in favour of devolution and the formation of a National Assembly for Wales.source
  • 1997Al-Qaeda carries out a terrorist attack in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.source
  • 1997The haze came to Singapore, which caused the Pollutant Standards Index to reach a record of 226 then (since surpassed by 401 during the June 2013 haze).source
  • 1998The United Nations condemns Libya, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for breaches against the UN's air embargo against Libya.source
  • 2001The 2001 anthrax attacks begin in the United States, which cause five fatalities and 17 other infections.source
  • 2002September 14–27 – Hurricane Isidore crosses Cuba, the Yucatán Peninsula, and Louisiana.source
  • 2003Hurricane Isabel makes landfall in North Carolina.source
  • 2005September 17-25 - Croatia hosted the 2005 Women's European Volleyball Championship in Pula and Zagreb.source
  • 2007North Korea denies allegations that it is helping Syria to develop a nuclear weapons facility.source
  • 2008An open beta of the high-definition channel of the Chinese video sharing website Tudou, also known as Heidou, is released for public use.source
  • 2010Slovak political reform referendum, 2010source
  • 2011The 6.9 Mw Sikkim earthquake shook northeastern India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), leaving 111 people dead.source
  • 2014In the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom.source
  • 2015Automaker Volkswagen is alleged to have been involved in worldwide rigging of diesel emissions tests, affecting an estimated 11 million vehicles globally.source
  • 2015October 31 – The 2015 Rugby World Cup is held in England and is won by New Zealand who beat Australia in the final.source
  • 2019Prosecutiors in the case of the latest attempt to kill Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi announce that Eletise Leafa Vitale, convicted of the assassination of one of Malielegoai's cabinet members in another failed attempt at killing him in 1999, will testify in the trial against the conspirators of this year's plot.source
  • 2020Opposition leader Ralph Regenvanu warns about the sale of honorary Vanuatuan citizenship to potential international criminals and people stripped of other nationalities for nefarious activities. The government says it has stopped selling its citizenship but promises further investigation into the matter.source
  • 2022September 14–September 25 – The Atlantic hurricane Fiona hits Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Lucayan Archipelago, Bermuda, and Eastern Canada.source
  • 2025September 13–21 – The 2025 World Athletics Championships are held in Tokyo, Japan.source

Births

  • 524Kan Bahlam I, ruler of Palenque (died 583)source
  • 1060Godfrey of Bouillon, French nobleman (died 1100)source
  • 1091Andronikos Komnenos, Byzantine prince and generalsource
  • 1115Empress Wu (Song dynasty), Chinese consort (died 1197)source
  • 1344Marie Valois, French princess, daughter of King John II of France (died 1404)source
  • 1434Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (died 1467)source
  • 1495Louis X, Duke of Bavaria, German noble (died 1545)source
  • 1501Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford, English baron (died 1563)source
  • 1539Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, Italian-French dignitary and diplomat (died 1595)source
  • 1574Claudio Achillini, Italian philosopher, theologian, mathematician, poet, jurist (died 1640)source
  • 1587Francesca Caccini, Italian composersource
  • 1592Jean Guyon, French colonist (died 1663)source
  • 1606Zhang Xianzhong, Chinese rebel (died 1647)source
  • 1643Gilbert Burnet, Scottish philosopher and historian (died 1715)source
  • 1676Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (died 1733)source
  • 1709Samuel Johnson, English poet, biographer, essayist, and lexicographer (died 1784)source
  • 1709Samuel Johnson, English writer, critic and lexicographer (died 1784)source
  • 1733George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1798)source
  • 1765Pope Gregory XVI (died 1846)source
  • 1779Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1845)source
  • 1786King Christian VIII of Denmark (died 1848)source
  • 1876James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1953)source
  • 1895John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1979)source
  • 1905Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (died 1990)source
  • 1908Viktor Ambartsumian, Soviet Armenian astrophysicist (died 1996)source
  • 1976Ronaldo, Brazilian footballersource
  • 1998Christian Pulisic, American footballersource
  • 2021Willydoit, Thoroughbred racehorsesource

Deaths

  • 96Domitian, Roman emperor (born AD 51)source
  • 411Constantine III, Roman usurpersource
  • 869Wenilo, Frankish archbishopsource
  • 887Pietro I Candiano, doge of Venicesource
  • 893Zhang Xiong, Chinese warlordsource
  • 958Liu Sheng, Chinese emperor (born 920)source
  • 1017Henry of Schweinfurt, German noblemansource
  • 1137Eric II, king of Denmark (born 1090)source
  • 1180Louis VII (the Younger), king of France (born 1120)source
  • 1197Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary, consort, daughter of Louis VIIsource
  • 1261Konrad von Hochstaden, German archbishopsource
  • 1345Andrew, Duke of Calabria, is assassinated in Naples (died in Aversa).source
  • 1345Andrew, Duke of Calabria, king consort of Naples (born 1327) (murdered)source
  • 1361Louis V, Duke of Bavaria (born 1315)source
  • 1385Balša II, ruler of Zetasource
  • 1426Hubert van Eyck, paintersource
  • 1443Lewis of Luxembourg, Archbishop of Rouensource
  • 1479Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron FitzWarin, English baron (born 1445)source
  • 1508Jorge da Costa, Cardinal (born 1406)source
  • 1524Charlotte of France, princess (born 1516)source
  • 1531Lorenzo Pucci, Italian Catholic cardinal (born 1458)source
  • 1565September 11–20 – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (born 1515)source
  • 1598September 18 (Keichō 3, 18th day of the 8th month) – General Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who united Japan and became the Chancellor of the Realm, dies after ruling 12 years. He is nominally succeeded by his 5-year-old son, Toyotomi Hideyori, with the regency exercised by the Council of Five Elders.source
  • 1598Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (born 1537)source
  • 1630Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (born 1552)source
  • 1663Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (born 1603)source
  • 1721Matthew Prior, British poet and diplomat (born 1664)source
  • 1783Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, physicist (born 1707)source
  • 1783Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman, Hebrew scholar (born 1718)source
  • 1786Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Italian luthier (born 1711)source
  • 1819John Langdon, American Founding Father (born 1741)source
  • 1830William Hazlitt, English essayist (born 1778)source
  • 1840Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Constantinople-born French polymath (born 1783)source
  • 1905George MacDonald, Scottish author, poet and Christian minister (born 1824)source
  • 1911Pyotr Stolypin, third Prime Minister of the Russian Empire is assassinated in Kiev by Leftist revolutionary Dmitry Bogrov and is succeeded by Count Vladimir Kokovtsov.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
  • 1970Jimi Hendrix, American rock musician (born 1942)source
  • 2020Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (since 1993) and Judge of the D.C. Cir. (1980–1993), complications from pancreatic cancer.source
  • 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