13 September in history
9 events that happened on 13 September, from 585 BCE to 1996.
✦ Anniversary of the day
585 BCE 2,610 years ago
Tarquinius Priscus celebrates a triumph over the Sabines
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, by Roman tradition the fifth king of Rome, celebrated a triumph after defeating the Sabines, who ceded the town of Collatia in the peace that followed. The story belongs to the semi-legendary period before the Republic.
509 BCE 2,534 years ago
The Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill is dedicated
According to Livy, the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill was dedicated on the Ides of September in the Republic's first year, by the consul Marcus Horatius Pulvillus. Dionysius of Halicarnassus dated the consecration to 507 BCE.
531 CE 1,495 years ago
Khosrow I becomes Sasanian King of Kings
Khosrow I, known as Anushirvan, succeeded his father Kavad I as Sasanian King of Kings and went on to negotiate an end to the Iberian War with the Byzantine Empire. He reigned until 579 and reformed taxation and the army.
533 CE 1,493 years ago
Belisarius defeats the Vandal king Gelimer at Ad Decimum
At the tenth milestone south of Carthage, the Byzantine general Belisarius defeated the Vandal army of King Gelimer, whose attempt to trap the invaders failed. Belisarius entered Carthage two days later, opening Justinian I's reconquest of North Africa.
604 CE 1,422 years ago
Sabinian is consecrated pope, succeeding Gregory the Great
Sabinian was consecrated bishop of Rome, succeeding Pope Gregory I, who had died in March. A former apocrisiarius to Constantinople, he reigned during the Eastern Roman domination of the papacy until his death in February 606.
1759 CE 267 years ago
Wolfe defeats Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham
British troops under James Wolfe climbed the cliffs above Quebec and defeated the French in a brief battle. Wolfe was killed and Montcalm mortally wounded; Quebec fell, sealing Britain's conquest of Canada.
1814 CE 212 years ago
The British bombard Fort McHenry in Baltimore
British warships shelled Fort McHenry for some 25 hours. Seeing the flag still flying at dawn, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that became 'The Star-Spangled Banner'.
1993 CE 33 years ago
Rabin and Arafat shake hands on the Oslo Accords
Israel and the PLO signed the Declaration of Principles at the White House, with a historic handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat. The deal created Palestinian self-rule, but lasting peace proved elusive.
1996 CE 30 years ago
Tupac Shakur dies after a drive-by shooting
Rapper Tupac Shakur died in Las Vegas aged 25, six days after being shot. One of hip-hop's best-selling and most influential artists, his murder long went unsolved.
Born on 13 September 5
Died on 13 September 3
Dates as the sources give them: in the Julian calendar before 1582, and in some countries for longer (Britain until 1752, Russia until 1918). Only people whose day of birth or death the records agree on are listed.