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September 20, 2026 marks 234 years since the Battle of Valmy, in Champagne. French armies under Charles-François Dumouriez and François-Christophe Kel...
On 20 September 1857, East India Company forces took Bahadur Shah II, also known as Zafar, into custody at Humayun’s Tomb, south of Delhi. The recaptu...
On 20 September 1854, on the heights south of the River Alma, British, French and Ottoman armies drove back Russian forces commanded by Prince Alexand...
On 20 September 1519 five ships left Sanlúcar de Barrameda for the Atlantic. The expedition had left Seville on 10 August and come down the Guadalquiv...
On 19 September 1870, Prussian armies and troops from allied German states closed the roads and railways into Paris. The siege lasted until the capitu...
On 19 September 1796, George Washington’s farewell message appeared in David C. Claypoole’s Philadelphia newspaper, the American Daily Advertiser. It...
On 19 September 1893, Governor Lord Glasgow signed the Electoral Act. New Zealand became the first self-governing country in which women could vote in...
On 18 September, anniversary calendars often recall Christopher Columbus’s expedition reaching the Caribbean coast of the territory now called Costa R...
18 September 2026 marks 216 years since Chile formed its First National Government Junta. Chile’s National Archives and National Library date the open...
18 September 2026 marks 233 years since the cornerstone ceremony for the United States Capitol, the building intended as the home of Congress. The 179...
17 September 2026 marks 164 years since the explosions at the Allegheny Arsenal in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh. The Battle of Antietam was fought the sa...
17 September 2026 marks 217 years since the Treaty of Fredrikshamn, known in Finnish as the Treaty of Hamina. The 1809 printed text held by the Nation...
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