On this day: 12 September
Events, births and deaths on 12 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Events · 2016 Gyeongju earthquake
100 years ago1926
- Births · Joseph Newton Chandler III
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 33
- 490 BCE(Julian date)Battle of Marathon — 490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
- 1213(Julian date)Battle of Muret — Crusader army of Simon IV de Montfort defeated the Catharist, Aragonese and Catalan forces of Peter II of Aragon, at Muret near Toulouse
- 1229(Julian date)Battle of Portopí — september 1229 in Mallorca
- 1297(Julian date)Treaty of Alcañices — Portuguese treaty
- 16341634 Valletta explosion — 1634 explosion of a Hospitaller gunpowder factory in Valletta, Malta
- 1683Battle of Vienna — 1683 battle between the Christian European States and the Ottomans
- 1814Battle of North Point — battle of the War of 1812
- 1847Battle of Chapultepec — 1847 battle of the Mexican–American War
- 1848Switzerland — country in Central Europe
- 1848federalism in Switzerland — overview about federalism in Switzerland
- 1885Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord — extreme score in association football from September 12, 1885
- 1897Battle of Saragarhi — 1897 battle in British India
- 1923Southern Rhodesia — a landlocked self-governing colony of the British Empire in present-day Zimbabwe (1923–1980); initially administered by the British South Africa Company, with politics dominated by the white settler minority through racially discriminatory laws
- 1942Battle of Edson's Ridge — 1942 WW2 battle in the Solomon Islands
- 1942Laconia incident — Sinking of British troopship and attempted rescue of survivors by German submarines during World War II
- 1943Gran Sasso raid — 1943 rescue of Benito Mussolini by German forces
- 1948Liaoshen Campaign — 1948 military campaign during the Chinese civil war
- 1959Bonanza — 1959-1973 American western/cowboy television series
- 1961Air France Flight 2005 — Plane crash near Rabat, Morroco
- 1962We choose to go to the Moon — September 1962 speech by John F. Kennedy
- 1974Ethiopia — country in the Horn of Africa
- 19801980 Turkish coup d'état — 12 September 1980 government coup in Turkey
- 1990Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany — 1990 treaty making Germany fully independent
- 1990Kinmen Agreement — 1990 Red Cross accord between
- 1995Hurricane Ismael — Category 1 Pacific hurricane in 1995
- 2005Hong Kong Disneyland — Disney theme park in Hong Kong
- 2007September 2007 Sumatra earthquakes — earthquake in Indonesia
- 20082008 Chatsworth train collision — head-on collision in Los Angeles, California
- 2012Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 (2012) — 2012 aviation accident in Russia
- 2015Petlawad Explosion — disaster in Madhya Pradesh, India, 2015
- 20162016 Gyeongju earthquake — earthquake in South Korea
- 2021
- 2021Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 — 2021 aviation incident
Births · 60
- 1492(Julian date)Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino — Italian noble (1492-1519)
- 1494(Julian date)Francis I of France — King of France from 1515 to 1547 (1494-1547)
- 1818Richard Jordan Gatling — American firearm designer (1818–1903)
- 1829Anselm Feuerbach — German painter (1829–1880)
- 1837Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse — Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877 to 1892
- 1852H. H. Asquith — British politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916 (1852–1928)
- 1880H. L. Mencken — American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
- 1885(Julian date)Heinrich Hoffmann — German photographer, personal photographer of Adolf Hitler (1885-1957)
- 1888Maurice Chevalier — French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888–1972)
- 1894Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay — Indian Bengali author (1894–1950)
- 1897Irène Joliot-Curie — French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
- 1902Juscelino Kubitschek — President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961
- 1913Jesse Owens — American track and field athlete (1913–1980)
- 1914Desmond Llewelyn — British actor (1914-1999)
- 1917Han Suyin — physician and author (1917–2012)
- 1921Stanisław Lem — Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor (1921–2006)
- 1924Amílcar Cabral — Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean politician (1924-1973)
- 1927Mathé Altéry — French opera singer
- 1931Ian Holm — British actor (1931–2020)
- 1931George Jones — American country musician (1931–2013)
- 1934Glenn Davis — American track athlete and football player (1934-2009)
- 1940Linda Gray — American actress
- 1943Michael Ondaatje — Canadian novelist and poet (born 1943)
- 1944Barry White — American soul singer (1944–2003)
- 1949Irina Rodnina — Russian politician and figure skater
Deaths · 60
- 640Sak K'uk' — Maya queen
- 1185Andronikos I Komnenos — Byzantine emperor (1118–1185)
- 1213(Julian date)Peter II of Aragon — King of Aragon from 1196 to 1213
- 1362(Julian date)Innocent VI — pope of the Catholic Church from 1353 to 1362
- 1368(Julian date)Blanche of Lancaster — English noblewoman and heiress, died 1368
- 1500Albert III, Duke of Saxony — Duke of Saxony (1443-1500)
- 1544(Julian date)Clément Marot — French poet (1495-1544)
- 1612Vasili IV of Russia — Tsar of Russia (1606–1610)
- 1642Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars — French noble (1620-1642)
- 1660Jacob Cats — Dutch poet, humorist, jurist and politician (1577-1660)
- 1665Jean Bolland — Belgian Jesuit and hagiographer
- 1674Nicolaes Tulp — Dutch physician, writer and mayor of Amsterdam (1593–1674)
- 1683Afonso VI of Portugal — King of Portugal and the Algarves
- 1733François Couperin — French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist (1668–1733)
- 1764Jean-Philippe Rameau — French composer and music theorist (1683–1764)
- 1819Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher — Prussian field marshal (1742–1819)
- 1836Christian Dietrich Grabbe — German playwright (1801–1836)
- 1860William Walker — American filibuster, physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary (1824-1860)
- 1869Peter Mark Roget — English physician and philologist (1779-1869)
- 1874François Guizot — French historian, orator and statesman (1787–1874)
- 1907Ilia Chavchavadze — Georgian public figure and writer; a saint of Georgian Orthodox Church (1837-1907)
- 1918George Reid — Australian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia and 12th Premier of New South Wales (1845-1918)
- 1919Leonid Andreyev — Russian playwright, author and poet (1871–1919)
- 1927Sarah Frances Whiting — American physicist and astronomer (1847-1927)
- 1945Hajime Sugiyama — Imperial Japanese field marshal (1880–1945)
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