Editing September 18 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1618]] &ndash; The twelfth [[baktun]] in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.
*[[1714]] &ndash; [[George I of Great Britain|George I]] arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1.
*[[1739]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Belgrade]] is signed, whereby Austria cedes lands south of the Sava and Danube rivers to the Ottoman Empire.
*[[1759]] &ndash; [[French and Indian War]]: The [[Articles of Capitulation of Quebec]] are signed.
*[[1793]] &ndash; The first cornerstone of the [[United States Capitol]] is laid by George Washington.
*[[1809]] &ndash; The [[Royal Opera House]] in London opens.
*[[1810]] &ndash; [[Government Junta of Chile (1810)|First Government Junta]] in Chile. Though supposed to rule only during the [[Peninsular War]] in Spain, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
*[[1812]] &ndash; [[Fire of Moscow (1812)|The 1812 Fire of Moscow]] dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the [[Petrovsky Palace]] to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
*[[1837]] &ndash; [[Tiffany & Co.]] (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by [[Charles Lewis Tiffany]] and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
*[[1838]] &ndash; The [[Anti-Corn Law League]] is established by [[Richard Cobden]].
*[[1850]] &ndash; The U.S. Congress passes the [[Fugitive Slave Act of 1850]].
*[[1851]] &ndash; First publication of ''The New-York Daily Times'', which later becomes ''[[The New York Times]]''.
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Second Opium War]]: [[Battle of Zhangjiawan]]: Now heading towards [[Beijing]] after having recently occupied [[Tianjin]], the allied [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Anglo]]-[[Second French Empire|French]] force engages and defeats a larger [[Qing dynasty|Qing Chinese]] army at [[Battle of Zhangjiawan|Zhangjiawan]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Knollys |first=Henry |url=https://archive.org/details/incidentsinchina00granrich/page/106/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Incidents in the China War of 1860 |publisher=William Blackwood and Sons |year=1875 |location=Edinburgh |pages=107–109 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1862]] &ndash; The [[Confederate States]] celebrate for the first and only time a [[Thanksgiving Day]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pilgrimhallmuseum.org/pdf/TG_Presidential_Thanksgiving_Proclamations_1862_1869.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-12-18 |archive-date=2018-11-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125191350/http://www.pilgrimhallmuseum.org/pdf/TG_Presidential_Thanksgiving_Proclamations_1862_1869.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Chickamauga]] begins between Confederate and Union forces. It involves the second highest amount of casualties for any [[American Civil War]] battle apart from [[Battle of Gettysburg|Gettysburg]].<ref name="dates">The [http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/ga004.htm NPS battle description] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060111005219/http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/ga004.htm |date=January 11, 2006 }} by the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission and Kennedy, p. 227, cite September 18–20.</ref>
*[[1864]] &ndash; American Civil War: [[John Bell Hood]] begins the [[Franklin–Nashville Campaign]] in an unsuccessful attempt to draw [[William Tecumseh Sherman]] back out of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].<ref>Welcher, Frank J. ''The Union Army, 1861&ndash;1865 Organization and Operations''. Vol. 2, ''The Western Theater''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. {{ISBN|0-253-36454-X}}, p. 583.</ref>
*[[1873]] &ndash; The U.S. bank [[Jay Cooke & Company]] declares bankruptcy, contributing to the [[Panic of 1873]].
*[[1879]] &ndash; The [[Blackpool Illuminations]] are switched on for the first time.<ref>{{cite book |last=Parsons |first=R. H. |title=The Early Days of the Power Station Industry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ghREBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA7 |access-date=17 September 2018 |date=2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107475045 |page=7 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
*[[1882]] &ndash; The [[Pacific Stock Exchange]] opens.
*[[1898]] &ndash; The [[Fashoda Incident]] triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Winston Churchill|author2=Clementine Churchill|title=Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill|publisher=Doubleday|year=1998|page=502}}</ref>