23 September in history

4 events that happened on 23 September, from 63 BCE to 1939.

  1. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    63 BCE 1,963 years ago

    The future Emperor Augustus is born in Rome

    Gaius Octavius was born in Rome, great-nephew of Julius Caesar. As Augustus he ended the civil wars and turned the Republic into a monarchy that lasted for centuries.

    Roman EmpireJulius Caesar

  2. 1779 CE 247 years ago

    John Paul Jones captures HMS Serapis off Flamborough Head

    In a brutal moonlit battle, John Paul Jones's sinking Bonhomme Richard captured HMS Serapis off Yorkshire. His later-reported reply 'I have not yet begun to fight' became a naval legend.

  3. 1846 CE 180 years ago

    Johann Galle discovers Neptune

    At the Berlin Observatory, Johann Galle found Neptune within a degree of where Urbain Le Verrier had calculated. It was the first planet found by mathematical prediction.

  4. 1939 CE 87 years ago

    Sigmund Freud dies in London

    Freud, who had fled Nazi-occupied Vienna the year before, died aged 83 after his doctor gave him lethal doses of morphine at his request. His theories of the unconscious reshaped twentieth-century thought.

    Sigmund FreudLondonVienna

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