On this day ......

[MassRuss]

September 22, 1761 - George III & Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz are crowned King & Queen of Great Britain & King of Ireland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom

 

[unloadonme]

22 September 1915 – Birth of Arthur Lowe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lowe

 

[Pickwick]

23 September 1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christofer had three cannon and one hand gun.

 

[MassRuss]

September 23, 1949 - Birth of Bruce Springsteen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen

 

[unloadonme]

24 September 1664 – The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam

 

[Pickwick]

24 September 768 death of Pippin the Short (Pépin le Bref in French) , first Frankish king of the Caroligian house and Charlemagne's father.

 

[Pickwick]

25 September 1396 The Battle of Nicopolis : Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army. It is often referred to as the Crusade of Nicopolis and was the last large-scale crusade of the Middle Ages.

 

[unloadonme]

25 September 1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge near York marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge

 

[MassRuss]

September 25, 1929 - Birth of TV Newswoman/Personality Barbara Walters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Walters

 

[MassRuss]

September 26, 1870 - Birth of Christian X of Denmark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_X_of_Denmark

 

[Pickwick]

26 September 46 BC : Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus. He claimed the favours of Venus Victrix in his military success and Venus Genetrix as a personal, divine ancestress – apparently a long-standing family tradition among the Julii.

 

[unloadonme]

26 September 1580 – Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake

 

[MassRuss]

September 27, 1938 - Liner Queen Elizabeth is launched

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Elizabeth

 

[Pickwick]

27 September 1066 William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.

 

[unloadonme]

27 September 1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Urban_VII

 

[unloadonme]

28 September 1836 – Birth of Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper

 

[MassRuss]

September 29, 1938 - Munich Agreement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement

 

[DCRacer]

on this day in 1853:

- Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348

 

[unloadonme]

29 September 1973 – Death of W H Auden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden

 

[Pickwick]

28 September 1791 France becomes the first country to emancipate its Jewish population.

29 September 1902 death of Émile Zola, French writer.

30 September 1888 Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.