Historical Events In September - 11
Friday, 20 March 2026
0009 The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends. 

0506 The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde 

0813 Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor 

1185 Isaac II Angelus results in the deaths of Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire. 

1185 Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier 

1226 The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes 

1297 Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English 

1297 Hugh de Cressingham, English treasurer, dies in battle. 

1304 Willem III is recorded as becoming earl of Holland 

1390 Lithuanian Civil War (1389-1392): the Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius 

1458 Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia). 

1476 Louise of Savoye, French mother/regentes of king Francois I. 

1522 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical 

1523 Pierre de Ronsard, poet. 

1525 Johan Georg, elector of Brandenburg (1571-91). 

1541 Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko. 

1557 Catholic and Lutheran theology debated in Worm. 

1584 Thomas Erpenius, [van Erpe], Dutch orientalist/arabist (grammar). 

1599 Cornelis de Houtman, navigator (1st Dutch trip to Java), murder at 35 

1609 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island. 

1609 Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos 

1614 Philipp Buchner, composer. 

1630 John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide 

1645 Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol 

1646 Johann Stobaeus, composer, dies at 66 

1648 -13] Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir [OS]. 

1649 Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell results in the deaths of 3000 royalists 

1697 Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power 

1700 James Thomson, songwriter (Rule Britannia). 

1708 Charles XII of Sweden formally ends his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the Battle of Poltava, and the Swedish empire is no longer a major power 

1709 English, Dutch and Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet 

1709 Battle at Malplaquet: Engl/Aust/Dutch Great Alliance beat France 

1709 Hamilton, Scottish(?) general (Malplaquet), dies in battle 

1712 Giovanni D Cassini, French astronomer, dies 

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