September 5 Historical Events

The following events took place on September 5. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 60 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 917
  Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
• 1590
  Alexander Farnese’s army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
• 1661
  Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king’s musketeers.
• 1666
  Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings including St Paul’s Cathedral are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died.
• 1697
  War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson’s Bay.
• 1698
  In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
• 1725
  Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
• 1774
  First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
• 1781
  Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
• 1793
  French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
• 1798
  Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
• 1812
  War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac’s forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort’s outhouses.
• 1816
  Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable (“Unobtainable Chamber”).
• 1836
  Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
• 1839
  The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.

• 1840
  Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
• 1862
  American Civil War: The Potomac River is crossed at White’s Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
• 1862
  James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon.
• 1864
  François Achille Bazaine becomes Marshal of France.
• 1877
  American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
• 1882
  The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
• 1887
  A fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England kills 186.
• 1905
  Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
• 1906
  The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
• 1914
  World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
• 1915
  The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
• 1918
  The original publication of the Cheka decree, “On Red Terror”.
• 1921
  Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
• 1927
  The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
• 1932
  The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.