September 5 in History

Acknowledges Louis IV and agrees to a shared kingship arrangement.

Reaches settlement with Frederick III after years of civil war.

Selim I captures Tabriz without any resistance but is unable to hold it

Selim I captures Tabriz without any resistance but is unable to hold it

Instructs the clergy detail weddings, baptisms & burials in Parish Registars

Galileo enrolls in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Pisa.

Massey holds Gloucester until the approach of Essex's relief army forces the Royalists to abandon the siege.

Penderel guides the disguised Charles II toward the Severn, but guarded crossings prevent their planned escape into Wales.

Is arrested after losing Louis XIV's confidence.

Marlborough captures Dendermonde during the Allied advance through the Spanish Netherlands.

Appointed Adjutant NCO

Carnot was sent to the camp at Chalons to help form a new army for national defence.

Eure-et-Loir chose Brissot for the Convention, where he became one of the best-known Girondin leaders.

Robespierre was elected to the National Convention and took his place among the Montagnards.

Gironde electors returned Vergniaud to national office, sending the prominent orator to the new Convention.

The Convention elected Billaud-Varenne to preside during the September expansion of emergency revolutionary measures.

Popular pressure places terror on the order of the day as Jacobin dominated government confronts war and revolt

Popular pressure places terror on the order of the day as Jacobin dominated government confronts war and revolt.

Billaud-Varenne supported creation of a revolutionary army during the emergency measures of September 1793.

The legislature adopted the Jourdan-Delbrel law establishing conscription and compulsory military service as a permanent basis for army recruitment.

French occupation troops on Malta surrender to the British

Fort Texas is secured by United States forces and later renamed Fort Brown in honor of Major Jacob Brown

Mexican forces lift the siege after United States victory at Resaca de la Palma

Repels the final Allied landing assault and preserves the Russian Pacific port.

Brunel suffers a severe stroke shortly before the first sea trials of SS Great Eastern.

Illinois Republicans promote Lincoln as the Rail Candidate

Illinois Republicans endorse Lincoln for the presidency at Decatur

Lincoln supporters use the rail splitter image to strengthen his popular appeal

Enters Khartoum

Accepts peace after military defeats and domestic unrest.

Negotiates the peace settlement ending the Russo-Japanese War.

Nicholas II recalls Witte to negotiate peace with Japan.

Secures peace terms less severe than expected.

Dies in hospital after being shot 4 days previously

Moves against the exposed flank of von Klucks First Army & halted its southward drive

The Admiralty reviews the first loss of a warship to a submarine-fired torpedo.

Follows orders to withdraw his troops & join up with the Second Army

Begins when the French 6th Army & German IV Reserve Corps clash in the Meaux hills

Lenin appeals to all soldiers to lay down their arms. Calls for the "self determination of peoples". Calls for "peace without indemnities & without annexations". Calls for open civil war & the organisation of a new revolutionary international

The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists. The "internationalists" open their Conference in Switzerland. Opening day of a Conference of European anti-war Socialists.

The Zimmerwald Conference sees the beginning of the end of the coalition between left-wing socialists (communists) and right-wing socialists (social democrats) in the Second International.

Appointed Commander of the Russian armed forces

Lenin appeals to all soldiers to lay down their arms. Calls for the "self determination of peoples". Calls for "peace without indemnities & without annexations". Calls for open civil war & the organisation of a new revolutionary international

The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists. The "internationalists" open their Conference in Switzerland. Opening day of a Conference of European anti-war Socialists.

The Zimmerwald Conference sees the beginning of the end of the coalition between left-wing socialists (communists) and right-wing socialists (social democrats) in the Second International.

Calls for "peace without indemnities & without annexations"

The Zimmerwald Conference sees the beginning of the end of the coalition between left-wing socialists (communists) and right-wing socialists (social democrats) in the Second International. The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists

Presses for revolutionary defeatism at the anti-war socialist conference.

Joins anti-war socialists opposing the imperial war.

Attends the international socialist anti-war conference at Zimmerwald, which meets from 5 to 8 September.

The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists

The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists

The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists

Bolshevik recovery inside Soviets strengthens his position.

Is imprisoned alongside Denikin and other senior officers.

Launch of the red terror to massacre prisoners & hostages throughout Bolshevik Russia

Launch of the red terror to massacre prisoners & hostages throughout Bolshevik Russia

The Soviet government formally announces the Red Terror amid civil-war violence and attacks on Bolshevik leaders.

Birmingham's new municipal orchestra gives its first public concert.

Is overthrown after the Sergeants' Revolt.

Kerensky records his position on april crisis in exile.

Appointed President of Turkey

Appointed Prime Minister of Turkey

Ataturk asks for his will to be written

Roznan is captured by the Germans

The Polish Corridor is breached

Makes a speech in Senate comparing Hitler's efforts with the struggle for Afrikaaners. Hertzogs motion for South African neutrality is defeated by the Senate. Hertzog is forced to resign when his policy of neutrality in World War II is defeated

Appointed Prime Minister of South Africa, 2nd term

Hertzog is forced to resign when his policy of neutrality in World War II is defeated

Hertzog is forced to resign when his policy of neutrality in World War II is defeated

Vilna is transferred from Poland to Lithuania & becomes its capital

Russia signs Treaty of Mutual Assistance with Latvia giving Russia occupation rights

Reverts to just Commanding Army Group B

Reverts to just Commanding Army Group B

Russia declares war on Bulgaria. Bulgaria declares war on Germany then declares an armistice with Russia

Bulgaria decides to agree an armistice with Russia & declare war on Germany

The Inchon landing force sets out from Japan to invade Korea, 260 ships & 70,000 men

Directs Beyond a Reasonable Doubt.

Rejects his dismissal and announces that President Kasa-Vubu has instead been removed from office.

Kasa-Vubu announces Lumumba's dismissal amid a constitutional struggle over executive authority.

Villa defeats Rotherham United 3-2 on aggregate in the first League Cup final.

Shows that Io strongly influences the occurrence of Jupiter's decametric radio emission.

Directs Abschied von gestern, a major New German Cinema film.

The TUC rejects Statutory Incomes Policy & approves voluntary wage restraint

The TUC rejects Statutory Incomes Policy & approves voluntary wage restraint

The Munich attack is widely condemned around the world, with King Hussein of Jordan - the only leader of an Arab country to publicly denounce the Olympic attack - calling it a "savage crime against civilization. perpetrated by sick minds"

Meir appeals to other countries to "save our citizens and condemn the unspeakable criminal acts committed"

Massacre of 11 Israeli athletes

The Munich attack is widely condemned around the world, with King Hussein of Jordan - the only leader of an Arab country to publicly denounce the Olympic attack - calling it a "savage crime against civilization. perpetrated by sick minds"

Terror strikes the Munich Olympic games in West Germany as Arab guerrillas attack the Israeli delegation, Palestinian terrorists kill 2 athletes and take 9 others and their coaches hostage. Meir appeals to other countries to "save our citizens and condemn the unspeakable criminal acts committed"

Fencing coach Andre Spitzer, who spoke fluent German, and shooting coach Kehat Shorr, the senior member of the Israeli delegation, had a brief conversation with German officials while standing at the second-floor window of the besieged building

Fencing coach Andre Spitzer, who spoke fluent German, and shooting coach Kehat Shorr, the senior member of the Israeli delegation, had a brief conversation with German officials while standing at the second-floor window of the besieged building

Terrorists try to force the release of Baader and ten other imprisoned RAF members by kidnapping Hanns Martin as part of the sequence of events known as the "German Autumn"

Terrorists try to force the release of Baader and ten other imprisoned RAF members by kidnapping Hanns Martin as part of the sequence of events known as the "German Autumn"

Voyager 1 launches from Cape Canaveral to begin its outer-planet mission.

US President Carter, Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt meet at Camp David

US President Carter, Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt meet at Camp David

Becomes executive State President under the new constitution.

Is elected South Africa's first executive state president.

Makes 1st public appearence for 7 weeks

The office of prime minister is abolished.

The premiership is abolished under the new constitution.

Resumes nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia. France conducts nuclear tests beneath atolls southeast of Tahiti in French Polynesia, breaking a 1992 test moratorium despite worldwide protests from environmentalists

Serb forces resume their attacks on Sarajevo

Is reconfirmed as National Defence Commission chairman.

Reviews security conditions with Israeli counterparts as part of American efforts to stabilize the ceasefire process.

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act creates a legal guarantee of rural wage employment.

Reports to Parliament on the collapse of Qadhafi's rule and Britain's role in the international campaign.

Keita appoints Ly to lead his first government.

Hosts NATO leaders in Wales for talks on Russia, defence spending, Afghanistan and emerging security threats.

Forms a second government backed by the Five Star Movement and Democratic Party.

Mobilizes recovery work after typhoon damage.

Birth of Louis XIV, by Anne of Austria

Birth of Louis XIV, son of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria.

Birth of Louis XIV the Sun King, son of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria

Birth of Charles of Austria, 3rd son of Emperor Leopold II

Birth of Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb,

Birth of Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson

Birth of Dick Clement

Birth of Michael Keaton, Michael John Douglas

Auguste Comte dies in Paris, aged fifty-nine.

Theron is killed in action while operating against British forces in the Gatsrand area.

Death of Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann

Death of Adam Malik

Death of Alan Clark

Schlippenbach defeats a larger Russian force during fighting in Livonia.

Hood joins Admiral Thomas Graves in the unsuccessful effort to relieve the army at Yorktown, when the British fleet is driven off by the French Admiral, the Comte de Grasse, at the Battle of the Chesapeake

A major defeat for the British, since it prevented the Royal Navy from reinforcing or evacuating the blockaded forces of General Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, as a result, Cornwallis surrendered his army after the Siege of Yorktown

Crucial naval Battle near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay between a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral Francois Joseph Paul, the Comte de Grasse.

On 13 September de Grasse broke away from the British and returned to the Chesapeake, where de Barras had arrived, Graves returned to New York to organize a larger relief effort; this did not sail until 19 October, two days after Cornwallis surrendered.

A major defeat for the British, since it prevented the Royal Navy from reinforcing or evacuating the blockaded forces of General Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, as a result, Cornwallis surrendered his army after the Siege of Yorktown

Crucial naval Battle near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay between a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral Francois Joseph Paul, the Comte de Grasse.

Graves arrived at the mouth of the Chesapeake early on 5 September to see de Grasses fleet at anchor in the bay.

United States forces defeat Mexican forces at Resaca de la Palma

Forms the 6th & 9th Armies in preparation for the German counter-attack

Orders the 1st & 2nd French Armies to hold the Germans around Verdun & Nancy

Begins when the French 6th Army & German IV Reserve Corps clash in the Meaux hills

Moves against the exposed flank of von Klucks First Army & halted its southward drive

Attacked by the German VIII Army after its victory at Tannenberg

The Battle had cost 150 killed from 4 Divisions

Adds two more victories during heavy September fighting.

Claims a Bf 109 and a Ju 88 destroyed.

Crowned at Kingston-on-Thames by Archbishop Wulfstan