Editing September 22 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1692]] &ndash; [[Martha Corey]], [[Mary Eastey]], [[Alice Parker (Salem witch trials)|Alice Parker]], [[Mary Parker (Salem witch trials)|Mary Parker]], [[Ann Pudeator]], [[Wilmot Redd]], [[Margaret Scott (Salem witch trials)|Margaret Scott]], and [[Samuel Wardwell]] are hanged, the last of those to be executed in the [[Salem witch trials]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Goss|first=K. David|title=Daily Life During the Salem Witch Trials|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=2012|isbn=9780313374586|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9E7EEAAAQBAJ|page=46}}</ref>
*[[1711]] &ndash; The first attacks of the [[Tuscarora War]] begin in present-day [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Marley|first=David|title=Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the Present. Vol. 1|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2008|isbn=9781598841008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VafOEAAAQBAJ|page=360}}</ref>
*[[1761]] &ndash; [[George III]] and [[Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]] are [[Coronation of George III and Charlotte|crowned King and Queen]], respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cannon |first=John |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2133200832 |title=George III |year=2007 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=9780191550102 |pages=13 |id={{ProQuest|2133200832}} |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[Nathan Hale]] is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Ortner |first=Mary J. |title=Captain Nathan Hale |url=http://www.connecticutsar.org/patriots/hale_nathan_2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828152535/http://www.connecticutsar.org/patriots/hale_nathan_2.htm |archive-date=2012-08-28 |website=The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution}}</ref>
*[[1789]] &ndash; The office of [[United States Postmaster General]] is established.
*  1789   &ndash; [[Battle of Rymnik]]: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
*[[1792]] &ndash; ''Primidi [[Vendémiaire]]'' of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Joseph Smith]] claims to have found the [[golden plates]] after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
*[[1857]] &ndash; The Russian warship ''[[Russian ship of the line Lefort|Lefort]]'' capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
*[[1862]] &ndash; A preliminary version of the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] is released by Abraham Lincoln.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 1862 |url=https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals_iv/sections/transcript_preliminary_emancipation.html |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=[[National Archives and Records Administration]]}}</ref>
*[[1866]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Curupayty]] is Paraguay's only significant victory in the [[Paraguayan War]].
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Lord Randolph Churchill]] makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the [[Irish Home Rule movement]].
*[[1891]] &ndash; The first [[hydropower plant]] of [[Finland]] is commissioned along the [[Tammerkoski]] rapids in [[Tampere]], [[Pirkanmaa]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oy |first=Kemijoki |title=Vesistörakentamisen historiaa |url=https://www.suomenkalakirjasto.fi/vesistorakentamisen-historiaa/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130045026/https://www.suomenkalakirjasto.fi/vesistorakentamisen-historiaa/ |archive-date=2023-01-30 |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=Suomen Kalakirjasto |language=fi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Vesiputoukset ja vesivoima Suomessa |url=https://www.suomenvesiputoukset.fi/tietoa-suomen-vesiputouksista/vesiputoukset-ja-vesivoima-suomessa/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325224041/https://www.suomenvesiputoukset.fi/tietoa-suomen-vesiputouksista/vesiputoukset-ja-vesivoima-suomessa/ |archive-date=2023-03-25 |website=Suomen Vesiputoukset |language=fi}}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; A locomotive shunting [[Lindal railway incident|falls into a hole in the ground]], leading to the burial of the locomotive.
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Queen Victoria]] surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter [[Elizabeth II]] on 9 September 2015).<ref name="renamed_from_2015_on_20240922191642">{{Citation |last=Gander |first=Kashmira |title=Queen Elizabeth II to become Britain's longest reigning monarch, surpassing Queen Victoria |date=26 August 2015 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/queen-elizabeth-ii-to-become-britains-longest-reigning-monarch-surpassing-queen-victoria-10473729.html |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |place=London |access-date=9 September 2015 |archive-date=19 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919003603/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/queen-elizabeth-ii-to-become-britains-longest-reigning-monarch-surpassing-queen-victoria-10473729.html |url-status=live }}</ref>