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September 22 in history

228 sourced entries recorded on September 22, from 480 BCE to 2022 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 480 BCEThe Battle of Salamis brings victory to the Greeks, whose Athenian general Themistocles lures the Persians into the Bay of Salamis, between the Athenian port-city of Piraeus and the island of Salamis. The Greek triremes then attack furiously, ramming or sinking many Persian vessels and boarding others. The Greeks sink about 200 Persian vessels while losing only about 40 of their own. The rest of the Persian fleet is scattered, and as a result Xerxes has to postpone his planned land offensives for a year, a delay that gives the Greek city-states time to unite against him. Aeschylus fights on the winning side.source
  • 66Emperor Nero creates the Legio I Italica. He appoints Titus Flavius Vespasian as General of the army of Judea, and Governor of Judea which gives him command of three legions — V Macedonica, X Fretensis and XV Apollinaris.source
  • 904The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhao Zong, along with his family and many ministers, after seizing control of the imperial government. Zhu places Zhao Zong's 13-year-old son Ai (Li Zhou) on the imperial throne as a puppet ruler of the Tang dynasty.source
  • 1187September 20–October 2 – Siege of Jerusalem: Egyptian army under Saladin captures Jerusalem, after the Crusaders led by Balian of Ibelin surrender the 'Holy City'. The take-over of the city is relatively peaceful; Saladin agrees to let the Muslims and Christians leave the city, taking with them their goods. Balian joins his wife Maria Komnene and family, in the County of Tripoli.source
  • 1197About 16,000 German crusaders reach Acre, starting the crusade of 1197. Emperor Henry VI, who planned to join the forces later on, was forced to stay behind in Sicily due to illness. On September 28 he dies at Messina. Meanwhile, the crusaders manage to reconquer Sidon and Beirut but return to Germany after receiving the news of the emperor's death.source
  • 1217Papal legate issues his terms of the ratification of the Treaty of Lambeth at Merton.source
  • 1236Battle of Saule: The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword at Šiauliai in Lithuania.source
  • 1318Otto the Mild, becomes ruler over the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in Lower Saxony, after the death of his father Albert the Fatsource
  • 1324The War of Saint-Sardos ends after Charles, Count of Valois, forces the surrender of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent at La Réole, the last English fortress at the Duchy of Aquitaine. A six-month truce followssource
  • 1369Ludovico II Gonzaga becomes the new Lord of Mantua upon the death of his father, Guido Gonzaga.source
  • 1373The English arrived before Troyes, but are met by Constable of France Bertrand du Guesclin, Olivier V de Clisson, Louis II of Bourbon, the Duke of Burgundy and more than 7,000 men in garrison who had been waiting for them for a week. This prevented any English attempt to march on Paris through Gâtinais. The English left, around September 25.source
  • 1389The Republic of Siena and the Duchy of Milan enter into a 10-year alliance.source
  • 1408Andronikos Palaiologos becomes the new Byzantine Emperor of Thessalonica after the death of his brother, John VIII Palaiologos.source
  • 1429The English Parliament assembles at Westminster after being summoned by King Henry VI, and the House of Commons elects William Alington as Speaker of the House.source
  • 1499Treaty of Basel: Maximilian is forced to grant the Swiss de facto independence.source
  • 1503Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, Archbishop of Siena, is elected as the new Pope after the voting cardinals cannot decide between Georges d'Amboise of France or Giuliano della Rovere of Italy. Piccolomini takes the name of Pope Pius III but will reign for only 26 days.source
  • 1504Treaty of Blois: Philip the Handsome, Maximilian I, and Louis XII agree to terms.source
  • 1504The Treaty of Blois between king Louis XII and the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximillian I and Archduke Philip was signed. The treaty was meant to unite the Habsburg and Valois monarchs.source
  • 1520Suleiman I succeeds his father Selim I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He is officially crowned on September 30 and will rule until 1566.source
  • 1522A 6.8 magnitude earthquake kills more than 2,500 people in the Spanish city of Almería, near Alhama de Almería. It has a maximum felt intensity of X–XI (extreme), making it the most destructive earthquake in Spanish history, and destroys the city, as well as damaging 80 other towns; in Granada, large cracks are observed in various walls and towers.source
  • 1523Spanish conquest of Nicaragua: An agreement is made for an expedition by conquistadores into Nicaragua organized by Pedrarias Dávila.source
  • 1544Captain Juan Bautista Pastene leads the first European expedition to the estuary of Valdivia, Chile and Corral Bay.source
  • 1562Maximilian, son of the Emperor Ferdinand I, succeeds Ferdinand as ruler of the Kingdom of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic).source
  • 1562Treaty of Hampton Courtsource
  • 1568Jöran Persson is arrested and executed.source
  • 1575Ottoman forces led by Ferhad Pasha Sokolović defeat the Austrian Army, led by Herbard VIII von Auersperg, in the Battle of Budačka. Auersperg is decapitated and Ferhad Pasha leaves Croatia with the head as a trophy.source
  • 1575Paulo Dias de Novais becomes the first Portuguese Governor of Angola.source
  • 1586Battle of Zutphen: Spanish troops defeat the Dutch rebels and their English allies. English poet and courtier Sir Philip Sidney is mortally wounded.source
  • 1587The coronation of Vincenzo Gonzaga as Duke of Mantua in Italy takes place.source
  • 1612Retreating Polish and Lithuanian troops burn the Russian city of Vologda in reprisal for their defeat at Moscow.source
  • 1655September 20 – September 30 - Battle of Nowy Dwór Mazowieckisource
  • 1659The Ottoman-ruled island of Kizilhisar (called Castelrosso by Italy and in modern times the island of Kastellorizo in Greece) is captured from the Ottoman Empire by the navy of the Republic of Venice after nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule that had started in 1512.source
  • 1665Molière's L'Amour médecin is first presented, before Louis XIV, at the Palace of Versailles, with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully.source
  • 1675King Charles II of England orders the setting up of a commission to determine the cases of Connacht transplanters.source
  • 1687The Siege of Golconda, ordered by Emperor Aurangzeb of India's Mughal Empire against the capital of the Golconda sultanate, ends after nine months when a traitor inside the walled city, Sarandaz Khan, opens the first of several entrances into the fortress. The Sultan Abul Hasan Qutb Shah is taken prisoner by General Mir Shahab ud-Din, and Golconda (now part of Hyderabad in the Telangana state).source
  • 1692The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials are hanged. By the end of September, 14 women and 5 men have been executed by hanging. The remainder of those convicted are all eventually released.source
  • 1711The Tuscarora War begins when Tuscarora natives under the command of Chief Hancock raid settlements along the south bank of the Pamlico River, within the Province of Carolina (modern-day North Carolina), killing around 130 people.source
  • 1731Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) writes to the SPCK proposing that a Welsh school be set up at Llanddowror. This marks the beginning of the circulating schools movement.source
  • 1735Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, becomes the first British premier to move into London's 10 Downing Street.source
  • 1735Robert Walpole moves into 10 Downing Street.source
  • 1761coronation of King George III and Queen Charlotte at Westminster Abbey.source
  • 1761George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned.source
  • 1768September 22–29 – The Massachusetts Convention of Towns, assembling in Boston, resolves on a written objection to the impending arrival of British troops rather than more militant action but causes panic in London.source
  • 1778first St. Leger Stakes horse race held under this name and at its continuing location, Town Moor, Doncaster. The winner is Hollandoise.source
  • 1784Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.source
  • 1784Russia establishes their first colony in Kodiak, Alaska.source
  • 1789Russo-Turkish War (1787–92) – Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov roundly defeats 100,000 Turks.source
  • 1789(Today's New South Wales) Commonly cited as the first white child or the first white female born in Australia, Rebecca Small (22 September 1789 – 30 January 1883), was born in Port Jackson, the eldest daughter of John Small a boatswain in the First Fleet which arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788.source
  • 1789The United States Department of the Post Office is established.source
  • 1792French Revolution: The Era of the historical French Republican Calendar begins.source
  • 1795London Missionary Society inaugurated.source
  • 1796Mary Lamb commits matricide in London.source
  • 1796Frigate HMS Amphion blows up while preparing for sea at Plymouth, killing 300 out of the 312 aboard.source
  • 1810Manuel Belgrano prepares his invasion to the Provincia del Paraguay.source
  • 1822Portugal approves its first Constitution.source
  • 1823Joseph Smith first goes to the place near Manchester, New York, where the golden plates are stored, having been directed there by God through an angel (according to what he writes in 1838).source
  • 1827Joseph Smith will claim in 1838 that on this day he took the golden plates from the place where they had been stored, and that he began writing down the Book of Mormon from them the following December.source
  • 1831The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Great Reform Bill to expand the franchise, but this is later defeated in the House of Lords.source
  • 1831The House of Commons passes the Great Reform Bill to expand the franchise, but this is later defeated in the Lords.source
  • 1832Qasim al-Ahmad is appointed as the new Ottoman Governor (mutasallim) of Jerusalem (Kudüs), after Sultan Mahmud II dismisses Muhammad Said Agha.source
  • 1846the Great Western Steamship Company's SS Great Britain, bound from Liverpool for New York, runs aground in Dundrum Bay (County Down). She lies here for almost a year, protected by temporary measures organised by her designer, I. K. Brunel.source
  • 1857September 22 (September 10 O.S.) – Russian ship of the line Lefort sinks in the Gulf of Finland during a sudden squall with the loss of 826 lives; 30 other ships are wrecked in the same storm.source
  • 1862American Civil War: The preliminary announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation is made by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln: From January 1, 1863, slaves in the Confederate States will be considered free.source
  • 1862Otto von Bismarck becomes Minister President of Prussia, following refusal by the country's Landtag to accept the military budget.source
  • 1862American Civil War: Preliminary announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln: From January 1, 1863, slaves in the Confederate States will be considered free.source
  • 1865Frederik Stang founds the Norwegian Red Crosssource
  • 1866Paraguay successfully defends Curupayty against the Triple Alliance in the Paraguayan War, killing more than 5,000 while sustaining just about 50 casualties.source
  • 1868September 19–27 - Glorious Revolution (Spain)source
  • 1875Cape Midland – Swartkops to Uitenhage, 13 mi 46 ch.source
  • 1877Treaty 7 is concluded between several mainly Blackfoot First Nations tribes and the Canadian Confederation, at the Blackfoot Crossing of the Bow River, settling the Blackfoot on Indian reserves in what will become southern Alberta.source
  • 1884HMS Wasp is wrecked on Tory Island, County Donegal, with the loss of 52 lives and only 6 survivors.source
  • 1891The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.source
  • 1893Elementary Education (School Attendance) Act leads to raising of school leaving age in England and Wales to eleven years.source
  • 1896Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest-reigning monarch in British history up to this time.source
  • 1899Following a court-martial, Admiral Patricio Montojo, who had surrendered the Philippines to the U.S. to end the Spanish–American War, is relieved of all commands and placed on the reserve list.source
  • 1906Atlanta race riot: Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia result in 27 people killed and the Black-owned business district severely damaged.source
  • 1906Carlton wins the VFL grand final, beating Fitzroy 15.4 (94) to 6.9 (45).source
  • 1907Uruguay abolishes capital punishment.source
  • 1914German light cruiser SMS Emden bombards Madras, the only Indian city to be attacked by the Central Powers in the War.source
  • 1914Action of 22 September 1914: German submarine U-9 torpedoes three British Royal Navy armoured cruisers, HMS Aboukir, HMS Cressy and HMS Hogue, with the death of more than 1,400 men, in the North Sea.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
  • 1920The London Metropolitan Police forms the Flying Squad, a motorised mobile detective patrol unit.source
  • 1922Estonia joined the League of Nations.source
  • 1932Soviet famine of 1932–33 begins; millions starve to death as a result of forced collectivization and as part of the government's effort to break rural resistance to its policies. The Soviet regime denies the famine and allows the deaths.source
  • 1934A gas explosion at Gresford Colliery in Wrexham, north-east Wales, kills 266 miners and rescuers.source
  • 1938Neville Chamberlain arrives in the city of Bad Godesberg, for another round of talks with Hitler over the Sudetenland crisis. Hitler raises his demands to include occupation of all German Sudeten territories by October 1. That night after a telephone conference, Chamberlain reverses himself and advises the Czechoslovaks to mobilize.source
  • 1939WWII: A joint victory parade is staged by the Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk, at the end of the Invasion of Poland.source
  • 1939Dikili Earthquake.46 deathssource
  • 1940September 22–26 – Japanese invasion of French Indochinasource
  • 1940The first flight of Heinkel He 280 occurs.source
  • 1940September 20–22 – WWII: Convoy HX 72, a North Atlantic convoy of 43 ships, is attacked by a German U-boat group (wolfpack), eleven ships of 73 tons are sunk, seven during the second night of the attack by the U-100 under the command of Joachim Schepke.source
  • 1943September 22–October 2 – WWII: Landing at Scarlet Beach on the Huon Peninsula of New Guinea by Allied forces, the first time Australian troops have made an opposed amphibious landing since the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915.source
  • 1944WWII: The Red Army captures Tallinn, Estonia. Prime Minister in Duties of the President of Estonia Jüri Uluots and 80,000 Estonian civilians manage to escape to Sweden and Germany. The evacuees include almost the entire population of Estonian Swedes. Soviet bombing raids on the evacuating ships sink several, with thousands on board.source
  • 1947Bronze Soldier of Tallinn was unveiled.source
  • 1947The Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties (Cominform) is founded by the International Communist Movement.source
  • 1948The Provisional State Council of Israel passes the Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordnance, 5708-1948, annexing all territory that Israel had captured since the war began, and declaring that from then on, any part of Palestine captured and secured by the Israel Defense Forces would automatically be annexed to Israel.source
  • 1951Singapore is proclaimed a City of the British Commonwealth by a royal charter issued by King George VI.source
  • 1955Commercial television starts in the United Kingdom with the Independent Television Authority's first ITV franchises beginning broadcasting in London, ending the BBC monopoly.source
  • 1955To deal with crimes, the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act is passed, allowing for detentions.source
  • 1955September 21–30 – Hurricane Janet, one of the strongest North Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, sweeps the Lesser Antilles and Mexico, causing more than 1,020 deaths.source
  • 1957The fishing boat Doron is captured by Egyptian forces, who claim that the boat entered Egypt's territorial waters, and is led to Port Said. Its crew, 5 Israeli fishermen and its Italian captain, are interrogated by the Egyptians.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
  • 1959At its inaugural conference the Irish Congress of Trade Unions attacks the government of Northern Ireland for not recognising the new organisation.source
  • 1962Bob Dylan premieres his song "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", at Carnegie Hall in New York City.source
  • 1965Radio Peking announces that Indian troops have dismantled their equipment on the Chinese side of the border.source
  • 1969September 22–25 – An Islamic conference in Rabat, Morocco, following the al-Aqsa Mosque fire (August 21), condemns the Israeli claim of ownership of Jerusalem.source
  • 1970Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as prime minister of Malaysia, and is succeeded by his deputy Tun Abdul Razak.source
  • 1970Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj resigned as prime minister.source
  • 1970The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is founded.source
  • 1975In San Francisco, Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.source
  • 1979Vela incident: The "South Atlantic Flash" is observed near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, thought to be a nuclear weapons test conducted by South Africa and Israel.source
  • 1980The command council of Iraq orders its army to "deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets", initiating the Iran–Iraq War.source
  • 1981A Northrop F-5 crashes during a military exercise, in Babaeski, Turkey, killing 1 crew and 65 soldiers on ground.source
  • 1985The Plaza Accord is signed by five nations.source
  • 1985Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris, for two weeks (22 Sep. – 5 Oct. 1985). The Pont Neuf Wrapped attracts three million visitors.source
  • 1986Australia-India test cricket match ends in a tie at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai, becoming only the second tied test in the history.source
  • 1987Shipyard P. Smit Jr. in Rotterdam is declared bankrupt.source
  • 1988The Ocean Odyssey drilling rig suffers a blowout and fire in the North Sea (see also July 6), resulting in one death.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
  • 1989Doe v. University of Michigan: A Michigan court rules against the hate speech law at the University of Michigan, claiming it unconstitutional.source
  • 1991September 21 – 30 – Iraq disarmament crisis: IAEA inspectors discover files on Iraq's hidden nuclear weapons program. Iraqi officials refuse to let them leave with the documents, prompting a standoff that continues until the UN Security Council threatens enforcement actions on Iraq.source
  • 1991The Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time.source
  • 1991Portuguese Grand Prixsource
  • 1993Big Bayou Canot train disaster: A bridge collapses while the Amtrak Sunset Limited is in the process of crossing it, killing 47 people.source
  • 1995Nagerkovil school bombing: The Sri Lankan Air Force bombs the Nagar Kovil Maha Vidyalayam school in Jaffna, resulting in the deaths of roughly 34–71 Sri Lankan Tamil civilians based on multiple accounts.source
  • 1996The Panhellenic Socialist Movement under the leadership of Costas Simitis succeeds in the 1996 Greek legislative election.source
  • 1996Levon Ter-Petrosyan wins the presidential elections in Armenia.source
  • 1997Two overloaded PNR Metro trains collide, causing a train coach to hit into a squatter area in Muntinlupa, killing nine people and injuring more than 200 in one of the country's worst railway accidents. —"Philippines: 6 reported dead after 2 commuter trains crash" AP Archive. 09-22-1997. Retrieved 02-18-2022.source
  • 2001American spacecraft Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.source
  • 2002September 14–27 – Hurricane Isidore crosses Cuba, the Yucatán Peninsula, and Louisiana.source
  • 2002September 21–October 4 – Hurricane Lili crosses Cuba and several other Caribbean islands before making landfall in Louisiana.source
  • 2004Experts and officials from Interpol and 19 countries met Tuesday in Burkina Faso to elaborate a strategy to combat terrorism and crime in Africa. Countries participating included Chad.source
  • 2005September 17-25 - Croatia hosted the 2005 Women's European Volleyball Championship in Pula and Zagreb.source
  • 2006Annular solar eclipse, visible in Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, parts of Brazil, and the southern Atlantic.source
  • 2006Former Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin is announced as the successor of Piet Hein Donner. Former Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment Pieter Winsemius succeeds Sybilla Dekker.source
  • 2007Several hundred Buddhist monks marched through Burma's second largest city Mandalay as activists urged people to join the protests against the ruling military junta.source
  • 2009WikiLeaks exposes the contents of Kaupthing Bank's internal documents prior to the Icelandic Financial Crisis. These documents showed suspicious amounts of money were loaned to bank owners, and debts being written off.source
  • 2010Anonymous initiates Operation Payback, a coordinated cyberattack on multiple corporations, law firms, and politicians over the banning of file-sharing websites such as LimeWire and The Pirate Bay and also the politicians and financial institutions against WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website.source
  • 2012The United Kingdom informs the World Health Organization about a novel coronavirus case originating from Saudi Arabia.source
  • 2014American-led intervention in Syria: The United States and several Arab partners begin their airstrike campaign in Syria.source
  • 2018An attack at a military parade kills 30 people (including 5 attackers) and injures 70 more in Ahvaz, Iran.source
  • 2019Nearly three weeks after Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on The Bahamas, the official death toll stands at 52 and 1,300 are reported missing. Rescuers report the widespread stench of rotting bodies in the rubble.source
  • 2022September 14–September 25 – The Atlantic hurricane Fiona hits Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Lucayan Archipelago, Bermuda, and Eastern Canada.source
  • 2022September 22 – October 1 – The 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup is held in Sydney, Australia. In the final, the United States wins 83–61 against China.source

Births

  • 480 BCESeptember 22 (traditional date) – Euripides, Greek playwright (died 406 BC)source
  • 701Shōmu, emperor of Japan (died 756)source
  • 1013Richeza (or Adelaide), queen of Hungary (died 1075)source
  • 1060Vitalis of Savigny, Catholic saint and itinerant preacher (died 1122)source
  • 1211Ibn Khallikan, Barmakid historian (died 1282)source
  • 1373Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (died 1400)source
  • 1515Anne of Cleves, Fourth Queen of Henry VIII (died 1557)source
  • 1523Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, French church leader and pretender to the throne (died 1590)source
  • 1523Charles de Bourbon French nobleman and Archbishop of Rouen (d.1590)source
  • 1601Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII and regent of France (died 1666)source
  • 1606Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (died 1645)source
  • 1645Chikka Devaraja, Ruler of Mysore (died 1704)source
  • 1680Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (died 1747)source
  • 1684Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, French general and statesman (died 1761)source
  • 1694Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, British statesman and man of letters (died 1773)source
  • 1701Anna Magdalena Bach, accomplished German singer, second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1760)source
  • 1707John Rattray, Edinburgh surgeon who served as surgeon to Prince Charles Edward Stuart (died 1771)source
  • 1741Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (died 1811)source
  • 1752Ruler Jeongjo of Joseon (died 1800)source
  • 1791Michael Faraday, English scientist (died 1867)source
  • 1806Bernardino António Gomes, Portuguese physician and naturalist (died 1877)source
  • 1842Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1918)source
  • 1885Ben Chifley, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1951)source
  • 1999Kim Yoo-jung, actresssource

Deaths

  • 189He Jin, Chinese Grand Marshal and regentsource
  • 237Mingdao (or Mao), Chinese empresssource
  • 530Pope Felix IV dies at Rome after a tenure of four years, two months and 13 days, in which he has condemned semi-pelagianism. He is succeeded by Boniface II, who becomes the 55th pope.source
  • 904Zhao Zong, emperor of the Tang dynasty (born 867)source
  • 967Wichmann II, Frankish noblemansource
  • 1072Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and poet (born 1007)source
  • 1093King Olaf III of Norway ("the Peaceful") dies after a 26-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Magnus Barefoot who is proclaimed ruler of Norway at the Borgarting (or the Thing), an assembly of lawspeakers, in the region of Viken.source
  • 1093Olaf III "the Peaceful", king of Norwaysource
  • 1158Otto of Freising, German bishop (born 1114)source
  • 1174Uhtred, Lord of Gallowaysource
  • 1253Dōgen, Japanese Buddhist priest (born 1200)source
  • 1261September 22/27 – Plaisance of Antioch, queen consort of Cyprus (born 1235)source
  • 1286Mugaku Sogen, Chinese adviser (born 1226)source
  • 1304Thomas of Corbridge, England's powerful Archbishop of York, dies after a little more than four years in office. The office is vacant for several months, and leads to the resignation of Lord Chancellor William Greenfield to become the new Bishop.source
  • 1306John of Paris, French scholar, theologian and writersource
  • 1318Albert the Fat, German nobleman (born 1268)source
  • 1345Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (born 1281)source
  • 1399Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (born 1366)source
  • 1408John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (born 1370)source
  • 1417Anne of Auvergne, Sovereign Dauphine of Auvergne and Countess of Forez (born 1358)source
  • 1417Anne of Auvergne (born 1358)source
  • 1450William Tresham, English politiciansource
  • 1457Peter II, Duke of Brittany (born 1418)source
  • 1457Peter II, Duke of Brittanysource
  • 1471After being tracked down by King Edward IV and taken prisoner at Southampton, the rebel Thomas Neville is beheaded at Middleham Castle in his native Yorkshire.source
  • 1482Philibert I of Savoy (born 1465)source
  • 1504Jan II the Mad, Duke of Żagań (1439–1449 and 1461–1468 and again in 1472) (born 1435)source
  • 1520Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (born 1470)source
  • 1531Louise of Savoy, French regent (born 1476)source
  • 1531Louise of Savoy, mother of King Francis I and Marguerite of Navarre. And queen regent in 1515, 1525–1526 and 1529, during the absence of her son.(b.1476)source
  • 1554Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Spanish conquistador (born c. 1510)source
  • 1568Jöran Persson, royal adviser (died 1530)source
  • 1568Anna Pehrsönernas moder, alleged witch (Born unknown date)source
  • 1576Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (born 1541)source
  • 1576Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, Earl Marshal of Ireland (born 1541)source
  • 1607Alessandro Allori, Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school (born 1535)source
  • 1626Hugh MacCaghwell, Franciscan theologian and archbishop (born 1571)source
  • 1629(5 Safar 1039 AH) Ahmad ibn Abd al-Muttalib, who had become Emir of Mecca and King of the Hejaz by force 16 months earlier, is assassinated by order of Kansuh Pasha, Governor of Yemen.source
  • 1630Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese politician, military general and writer (born 1584)source
  • 1637Charles Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (born 1580)source
  • 1662John Biddle, English theologian (born 1615)source
  • 1710Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville, Marquis de Denonville (born 1637)source
  • 1726Aixinjueluo Yuntang, born Aixinjueluo Yintang, Qing prince (born 1683)source
  • 1756Abu l-Hasan Ali I, ruler of Tunisia (born 1688)source
  • 1769Antonio Genovesi, Italian philosopher (born 1712)source
  • 1774Pope Clement XIV, pope and bishop of Rome from 1769 to 1774 (born 1705)source
  • 1776American Revolutionary War – Nathan Hale is executed by the British in New York City for espionage.source
  • 1776Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary War captain, writer and patriot (executed) (born 1755)source
  • 1776American Revolution: Nathan Hale is executed by the British in New York City for espionage.source
  • 1777John Bartram, American botanist (born 1699)source
  • 1828Shaka, most influential leader of the Zulu Kingdom (born 1787)source
  • 1840Anne Lister, English landowner, diarist, mountaineer and traveller, "the first modern lesbian" (born 1791)source
  • 1892In Paris, Filipino painter Juan Luna fatally shot his wife Paz Pardo de Tavera, who died 11 days later.source
  • 1910Ali Reza Khan Azod-ol-Molk, Iranian politician.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
  • 1949Sam Wood, American director (born 1883)source
  • 1961Marion Davies, American actress (born 1897)source
  • 1979Abul A'la Maududi, 75, Pakistani Islamic scholar, heart attack.source
  • 2009Rescue teams scour eastern Bhutan after at least 11 people are killed by an earthquake which struck the region.source
  • 2019September 19 – 30 Afghan nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in Nangarhar Province.source