Historical Events in September, Month of September Events
Here is a list of some historical events in September. You can learn What major event happened in September?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| September 19, 1846 | Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette. |
| September 29, 2004 | The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth. |
| September 1, 1862 | American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly: Confederate Army troops defeat a group of retreating Union Army troops in Chantilly, Virginia. |
| September 9, 1776 | The Continental Congress officially names its union of states the United States. |
| September 25, 1962 | The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government. |
| September 6, 1940 | King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. General Ion Antonescu becomes the Conducător of Romania. |
| September 12, 1814 | Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812. |
| September 9, 1488 | Anne becomes sovereign Duchess of Brittany, becoming a central figure in the struggle for influence that leads to the union of Brittany and France. |
| September 3, 36 | In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate. |
| September 21, 1964 | Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, but remains in the Commonwealth. |
| September 26, 1905 | Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity. |
| September 6, 1965 | India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration. |
| September 7, 1927 | The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth. |
| September 9, 2012 | A wave of attacks kills more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq. |
| September 14, 1917 | The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic. |
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