Editing September 20 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1602]] &ndash; The Spanish-held Dutch town of [[Grave, Netherlands|Grave]] [[Siege of Grave (1602)|capitulates to a besieging Dutch and English army]] under the command of [[Maurice of Orange]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dalton|first1=Charles|title=Life and Times of General Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon, Colonel of an English Regiment in the Dutch Service, 1605–1631, and One of His Majesty|date=2012|pages=93–97|publisher=HardPress|isbn=9781407753157}}</ref>
*[[1697]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Ryswick]] is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, ending the Nine Years' War.
*[[1737]] &ndash; The [[Walking Purchase]] concludes, which forces the cession of {{convert|1.2|e6acre|km2}} of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
*[[1792]] &ndash; French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the [[Battle of Valmy]].<ref>{{cite book|title=A Brief History of France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jUsvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA263|year=1875|publisher=A.S. Barnes|pages=263}}</ref>
*[[1835]] &ndash; The decade-long [[Ragamuffin War]] starts when rebels capture [[Porto Alegre]] in Brazil.
*[[1854]] &ndash; [[Crimean War]]: British and French troops defeat Russians at the [[Battle of Alma]].
*[[1857]] &ndash; The [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]] ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
*[[1860]] &ndash; The future King [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom]] begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Chickamauga]], in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.
*[[1870]] &ndash; The ''Bersaglieri'' corps [[capture of Rome|enter Rome]] through the ''Porta Pia'', and complete the unification of Italy.
*[[1871]] &ndash; Bishop [[John Coleridge Patteson]], first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on [[Nukapu]], now in the Solomon Islands.
*[[1881]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Chester A. Arthur]] is sworn in upon the death of [[James A. Garfield]] the previous day.<ref>{{cite book | last = Anthony | first = Carl | title = America's first families : an inside view of 200 years of private life in the White House | publisher = Touchstone | location = New York | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780684864426 | page=35}}</ref>
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Charles Duryea]] and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.