Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
107551September 19Holiday and observanceInternational Talk Like a Pirate Day
107552September 20Event622 – Muhammad and Abu Bakr arrived in Medina
107553September 20Event1058 – Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
107554September 20Event1066 – Battle of Fulford, Viking Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin
107555September 20Event1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
107556September 20Event1260 – the Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
107557September 20Event1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the "Butcher of Cesena", is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
107558September 20Event1498 – The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
107559September 20Event1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
107560September 20Event1596 – Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
107561September 20Event1697 – The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (1688–97).
107562September 20Event1737 – The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
107563September 20Event1792 – French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
107564September 20Event1835 – Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Ragamuffin War.
107565September 20Event1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
107566September 20Event1854 – Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in Crimea.
107567September 20Event1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
107568September 20Event1860 – The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
107569September 20Event1863 – American Civil War: The conclusion of the Battle of Chickamauga in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
107570September 20Event1870 – Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and complete the unification of Italy, ending de facto the temporal power of popes.
107571September 20Event1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
107572September 20Event1881 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
107573September 20Event1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
107574September 20Event1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
107575September 20Event1909 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
107576September 20Event1910 – The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
107577September 20Event1911 – White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with British warship HMS Hawke.
107578September 20Event1920 – Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
107579September 20Event1930 – Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
107580September 20Event1942 – Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.

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