| 102181 | September 8 | Event | 1756 – French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition. |
| 102182 | September 8 | Event | 1761 – Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. |
| 102183 | September 8 | Event | 1775 – The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta. |
| 102184 | September 8 | Event | 1781 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory. |
| 102185 | September 8 | Event | 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote. |
| 102186 | September 8 | Event | 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano: French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa. |
| 102187 | September 8 | Event | 1810 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor' |
| 102188 | September 8 | Event | 1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| 102189 | September 8 | Event | 1831 – November Uprising: Battle of Warsaw ends, effectively ending the Insurrection. |
| 102190 | September 8 | Event | 1860 – The steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives. |
| 102191 | September 8 | Event | 1862 – Millennium of Russia monument unveiled in Novgorod. |
| 102192 | September 8 | Event | 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass: On the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas. |
| 102193 | September 8 | Event | 1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries. |
| 102194 | September 8 | Event | 1888 – In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral's submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made. |
| 102195 | September 8 | Event | 1888 – In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found. |
| 102196 | September 8 | Event | 1888 – In England the first six Football League matches are played. |
| 102197 | September 8 | Event | 1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited. |
| 102198 | September 8 | Event | 1900 – Galveston Hurricane of 1900: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people. |
| 102199 | September 8 | Event | 1914 – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war. |
| 102200 | September 8 | Event | 1921 – Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America. |
| 102201 | September 8 | Event | 1923 – Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed. |
| 102202 | September 8 | Event | 1925 – Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima (Northern Morocco). |
| 102203 | September 8 | Event | 1926 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations. |
| 102204 | September 8 | Event | 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape. |
| 102205 | September 8 | Event | 1933 – Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq. |
| 102206 | September 8 | Event | 1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people. |
| 102207 | September 8 | Event | 1935 – US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building. |
| 102208 | September 8 | Event | 1941 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. |
| 102209 | September 8 | Event | 1943 – World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF. |
| 102210 | September 8 | Event | 1943 – World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy. |