September 6 Historical Events

The following events took place on September 6. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 48 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 3114 BC
  According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started. (Non-standard interpretation).
• 394
  Battle of the Frigidus: Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the usurper Eugenius. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later
• 1492
  Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
• 1522
  The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
• 1620
  The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
• 1628
  Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1634
  Thirty Years’ War: In the Battle of Nördlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
• 1781
  The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
• 1803
  British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
• 1847
  Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
• 1861
  American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River’s mouth.
• 1863
  American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
• 1870
  Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
• 1885
  Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. Bulgarian unification is henceforth accomplished.
• 1901
  Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

• 1916
  The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tennessee, by Clarence Saunders.
• 1930
  Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
• 1939
  World War II: At the Battle of Barking Creek, Britain suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War as a result of friendly fire.
• 1939
  World War II: South Africa declares war on Nazi Germany.
• 1940
  King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
• 1943
  The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
• 1943
  Pennsylvania Railroad’s premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
• 1944
  World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.
• 1944
  World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
• 1946
  United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
• 1948
  Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
• 1949
  Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
• 1952
  A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
• 1955
  Istanbul’s Greek, Jewish and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens die in the ensuing riots.
• 1962
  Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.