18 September in history

8 events that happened on 18 September, from 96 to 1970.

  1. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    96 CE 1,930 years ago

    Domitian is murdered and Nerva becomes emperor

    Emperor Domitian was stabbed to death in a palace conspiracy, and the Senate chose the elderly Nerva to succeed him. Nerva's adoption of Trajan began the era of the 'Five Good Emperors'.

    Roman EmpireTrajan

  2. 324 CE 1,702 years ago

    Constantine defeats Licinius at Chrysopolis

    Constantine's victory over his co-emperor Licinius at Chrysopolis, across the Bosporus from Byzantium, made him sole ruler of the Roman Empire. He soon refounded Byzantium as Constantinople.

    Roman Empire

  3. 1048 CE 978 years ago

    A Byzantine-Georgian army fights the Seljuks at Kapetron

    A Byzantine-Georgian army met a Seljuk raid into Byzantine-ruled Armenia, led by Ibrahim Inal, half-brother of Sultan Tughril I, at Kapetron. In the night battle Byzantine forces won on the flanks, but their Georgian allies were defeated in the centre.

    Byzantine–Seljuk warsSeljuk EmpireByzantine Empire

  4. 1180 CE 846 years ago

    Philip Augustus becomes king of France at fifteen

    Philip II, the fifteen-year-old only son of King Louis VII, began his reign as king of France. Later called Augustus for enlarging the crown lands, he won Normandy, Anjou, Maine and Poitou from King John of England from 1204.

    Philip II of France

  5. 1454 CE 572 years ago

    The Teutonic Knights defeat the Polish army at Chojnice

    Near the town of Chojnice, the Teutonic Knights defeated a Polish army in the first year of the Thirteen Years' War. The war had begun when the Prussian estates rebelled against the Order and placed themselves under King Casimir IV Jagiellon.

    Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466)Teutonic Order

  6. 1793 CE 233 years ago

    George Washington lays the cornerstone of the US Capitol

    President Washington laid the cornerstone of the Capitol in a Masonic ceremony. Congress first met in the unfinished building in November 1800.

  7. 1850 CE 176 years ago

    President Fillmore signs the Fugitive Slave Act

    Part of the Compromise of 1850, the act required citizens of free states to help return people who had escaped slavery, and denied them a jury trial. It turned many Northerners against slavery.

  8. 1970 CE 56 years ago

    Jimi Hendrix dies in London aged 27

    Guitarist Jimi Hendrix died in London after taking barbiturates. In four years of fame he had transformed the electric guitar with his use of feedback, distortion and virtuoso technique.

    London

Born on 18 September 6

Died on 18 September 6

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.

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