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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on September 12th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On September 12, 490 BC, an epic battle was fought between the Greeks (primarily Athenians) and the Persian Empire at the plains of Marathon, Greece, about 26 miles from Athens, with the result being a great victory for the outnumbered Greeks and giving rise to the legend of Pheidippides running the long distance to bring news of the victory to Athens, giving…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on September 11th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On September 11, 1297, Scottish forces led by William “Braveheart” Wallace defeated the English at Stirling Bridge. On September 11, 1792, in the midst of the confusion of the French Revolution, the crown jewels, which included the fabulous Hope Diamond (Le Bleu de France), were stolen. On September 11, 1826, Captain William Morgan was arrested in Batavia, New York, supposedly on a charge of failing to pay…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on September 10th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On either August 20 or September 8-10, 480 BC, the Persians defeated the Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae. On September 10, 1898, Empress Elisabeth of Austria was stabbed in the chest by assassin Luigi Lucheni. On September 10, 1939, with its torpedoing of its own submarine, the HMS Oxley, the British Royal Navy proved quite early in World War II that…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on September 9th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On September 9, 9 A.D., Germanic tribes under the leadership of Arminius dealt an army of three Roman Legions and their auxiliaries a crushing and total defeat at Teutoburg Forest in what is now Germany. On September 9, 337, almost four months after the death of Emperor Constantine the Great, his three sons inherited the throne as co-emperors, a situation that seems unworkable.…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on September 8th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On either August 20 or September 8-10, 480 BC, the Persians defeated the Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae. On September 8, 1761, King George III of the United Kingdom married Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Germany today, what was then the Holy Roman Empire). On September 8, 1923, the biggest peacetime disaster in U.S. Navy history occurred when commodore Captain Edward Watson…