On this day: 8 September
Events, births and deaths on 8 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Prince Buster
- Deaths · Hannes Arch
100 years ago1926
- Births · Bhupen Hazarika
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1100 · Deaths · Clement III
Events · 35
- 617(Julian date)Battle of Huoyi — battle fought in China in 617
- 1380(Julian date)Battle of Kulikovo — 1380 battle between Russian principalities and Golden Horde
- 1514(Julian date)Battle of Orsha — 1514 battle
- 1755Battle of Lake George — 1755 battle in the Seven Years' War
- 1756Battle of Kittanning — 1756 battle of the French and Indian War
- 1775Rising of the Priests — 1775 revolt in Malta led by priests
- 1781Battle of Eutaw Springs — 1781 battle of the American Revolution
- 1793Battle of Hondschoote — 1793 battle during the War of the First Coalition
- 1796Battle of Bassano — 1796 battle during the War of the First Coalition
- 1831Coronation of William IV and Adelaide — 1831 coronation in the United Kingdom
- 1863Second Battle of Sabine Pass — 1863 battle
- 19051905 Calabria earthquake — earthquake struck Calabria, Italy on September 8, 1905
- 1923Honda Point disaster — shipwreck
- 1935Assassination of Huey Long — 1935 murder of the US Senator
- 19361936 Naval Revolt — 1936 mutiny in the Portuguese Navy
- 1941Siege of Leningrad — 8 September 1941 – 27 January 1944 blockade of Leningrad by the Axis
- 1943Operation Achse — 1943 military operation
- 1946Bulgarian republic referendum — 1946 referendum in Bulgaria on whether to become a republic
- 1948flag of North Korea — national flag of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- 1951Treaty of San Francisco — peace treaty between Japan and the Allied Powers of World War II, officially ending the American-led Allied Occupation of Japan.
- 1954Southeast Asia Treaty Organization — former international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia
- 1966Star Trek — science fiction media franchise
- 1966Star Trek: The Original Series — American science fiction television series (1966–1969)
- 1966Severn Bridge — suspension bridge in Gloucestershire, England
- 1970Trans International Airlines Flight 863 — aviation accident
- 1974Presidential Proclamation 4311 of September 8, 1974, by President Gerald R. Ford granting a pardon to Richard M. Nixon. (NAID 299996) — 1974 proclamation by U.S. President Gerald Ford
- 1978Black Friday — mass shooting of protesters in Pahlavi Iran on 8 September 1978
- 1989Partnair Flight 394 — Aviation accident on 8 September 1989
- 1991Tailhook scandal — military scandal and controversy
- 1994USAir Flight 427 — aviation accident
- 2017Deir ez-Zor campaign (2017–2019) — military operation by Syrian Democratic Forces during the Syrian Civil War
- 2022death of Elizabeth II — death of the monarch of the United Kingdom
- 20232023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake — 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Morocco
- 20232023 Rugby World Cup — tenth edition of the Rugby World Cup
- 20252025 Nepalese Gen Z protests — anti-government protests in Nepal
Births · 60
- 685(Julian date)Emperor Xuanzong of Tang — 7th emperor of the Tang dynasty, reigning from 713 to 756 CE
- 801(Julian date)Ansgar — missionary to Denmark and later Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
- 829(Julian date)Ali al-Hadi — tenth of the Twelve Shia Imams (828–868)
- 1157(Julian date)Richard I of England — King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)
- 1380(Julian date)Bernardino of Siena — Italian Franciscan and saint (1380–1444)
- 1413(Julian date)Catherine of Bologna — Italian cloistered nun (1413-1463)
- 1474(Julian date)Ludovico Ariosto — Italian poet (1474–1533)
- 1588Marin Mersenne — French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (1588-1648)
- 1621Louis, Grand Condé — Prince of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon, French general and famous military leader
- 1633Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans — King of Bohemia, Hungary, Croatia, and the Romans (1633-1654)
- 1749Marie Thérèse of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe — French princess (1749-1792)
- 1767August Wilhelm von Schlegel — German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845)
- 1774Anne Catherine Emmerich — German Augustinian canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist (1774-1824)
- 1779Mustafa IV — 29th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1807–1808)
- 1783Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig — Danish Lutheran pastor, theologian, hymn-writer and educator (1783-1872)
- 1804Eduard Mörike — German poet (1804–1875)
- 1830Frédéric Mistral — Provençal writer, poet, lexicographer and founder of Le Félibrige (1830–1914)
- 1831Wilhelm Raabe — German novelist (1831-1910)
- 1841Antonín Dvořák — Czech composer (1841–1904)
- 1852Gojong of the Korean Empire — 26th king of Joseon, first emperor of the Korean Empire (1852–1919)
- 1857Georg Michaelis — German civil servant and chancellor (1857-1936)
- 1873Alfred Jarry — French writer (1873–1907)
- 1886Siegfried Sassoon — English war poet and writer (1886-1967)
- 1887Sivananda Saraswati — Hindu spiritual teacher (1887–1963)
- 1901Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd — Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966
Deaths · 60
- 394(Julian date)Arbogast — Frankish general (340-394)
- 701(Julian date)Sergius I — pope
- 780Leo IV the Khazar — Byzantine emperor
- 1100(Julian date)Clement III — antipope 1080 to 1100
- 1397Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester — thirteenth and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault
- 1425Charles III of Navarre — 1361 – 1425 King of Navarre from 1387
- 1476(Julian date)John II, Duke of Alençon — Duke of Alençon (1415-1474)
- 1519(Julian date)Hōjō Sōun — Japanese daimyo of the early Sengoku period
- 1555(Julian date)Thomas of Villanova — Spanish Augustinian saint and archbishop (1488–1555)
- 1613Carlo Gesualdo — Napoletan noble, composer and murderer (1566–1613)
- 1637Robert Fludd — English mathematician, doctor and astrologer
- 1644Francis Quarles — English poet
- 1645Francisco Quevedo — Spanish writer (1580-1645)
- 1656Joseph Hall — British bishop and writer (1574-1656)
- 1682Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz — Spanish mathematician and theologian
- 1784Ann Lee — English Shaker leader (1736-1784)
- 1811Peter Simon Pallas — German zoologist and botanist (1741–1811)
- 1814Maria Carolina of Austria — Queen of Naples and Sicily from 1768 to 1814 (1752–1814)
- 1853Frédéric Ozanam — French scholar (1813-1853)
- 1882Joseph Liouville — French mathematician and engineer (1809–1882)
- 1894Hermann von Helmholtz — German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894)
- 1895Adam Opel — founder of the German automobile company Adam Opel AG (1837–1895)
- 1933Faisal I of Iraq — 1st king of Hashemite Iraq from 1921 to 1933
- 1943Julius Fučík — Czech journalist and revolutionary (1903–1943)
- 1949Richard Strauss — German composer and orchestra director (1864–1949)
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