Editing September 8 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1655]] &ndash; [[Warsaw]] falls without resistance to a small force under the command of [[Charles X Gustav of Sweden]] during [[Deluge (history)|The Deluge]], making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.
*[[1727]] &ndash; A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of [[Burwell, Cambridgeshire|Burwell]] in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
*[[1755]] &ndash; [[French and Indian War]]: [[Battle of Lake George]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Times |first=Harold Faber Special to The New York |date=1975-03-23 |title=Lake George War Breaks Out Between Residents and Army |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/23/archives/lake-george-war-breaks-out-between-residents-and-army.html |access-date=2021-10-05 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[1756]] &ndash; French and Indian War: [[Kittanning Expedition]].
*[[1760]] &ndash; French and Indian War: [[Montreal Campaign|French surrender Montreal]] to the British, completing the latter's [[Conquest of New France (1758–1760)|conquest of New France]].<ref name="WHA">{{cite book |last1=Atherton |first1=William Henry |title=Under British rule, 1760–1914 Volume 2 of Montreal, 1535–1914 |date=1914 |publisher=S. J. Clarke |pages=3–4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=80E4AQAAMAAJ}}</ref>
*[[1761]] &ndash; Marriage of King [[George III of the United Kingdom]] to Duchess [[Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]].
*[[1775]] &ndash; The unsuccessful [[Rising of the Priests]] in Malta.
*[[1781]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: The [[Battle of Eutaw Springs]] in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the [[Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War|Southern theater]], ends in a narrow British tactical victory.
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[French Revolutionary Wars]]: [[Battle of Hondschoote (1793)|Battle of Hondschoote]].
*[[1796]] &ndash; French Revolutionary Wars: [[Battle of Bassano]]: French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa.
*[[1808]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Paris (1808)|Treaty of Paris]] is signed ending the French military occupation of [[Prussia]].<ref>Broers, Michael, Hicks, Peter & Guimera, Agustin. ''The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture''. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. P.187</ref>
*[[1810]] &ndash; The ''[[Tonquin (1807)|Tonquin]]'' sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created [[Pacific Fur Company]] on board.
*[[1813]] &ndash; At the final stage of the [[Peninsular War]], British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now [[San Sebastián]]), resulting in a [[Siege of San Sebastián|rampage and eventual destruction]] of the town.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Watson |first1=Bruce |title=When Soldiers Quit: Studies in Military Disintegration |date=1997 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-275-95223-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S6rbyJajMowC |page=80}}</ref>
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[1819 Balloon riot]] occurred at Vauxhall Garden in Philadelphia, PA and resulted in the destruction of the amusement park.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jackson |first1=Joseph |title=Vauxhall Garden |journal=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |date=1933 |volume=LVII |issue=4 |page=294 |url=https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/download/28291/28047/0 |access-date=10 April 2024}}</ref>
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[William IV of the United Kingdom|William IV]] and [[Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen]] are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
*  1831   &ndash; [[November uprising]]: The [[Battle of Warsaw (1831)|Battle of Warsaw]] effectively ends the Polish insurrection.
*[[1855]] &ndash; [[Crimean War]]: The French [[battle of Malakoff|assault the tower of Malakoff]], leading to the capture of [[Sevastopol]].<ref name=CE1>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aORoAAAAMAAJ ''The Crimean War: A Clash of Empires'' by Ian Fletcher & Natalia Ishchenko]</ref>
*[[1860]] &ndash; The [[steamship]] {{ship|PS|Lady Elgin}} sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Millennium of Russia]] monument is unveiled in Novgorod.
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: In the [[Second Battle of Sabine Pass]], a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
*[[1883]] &ndash; The [[Northern Pacific Railway]] (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Peral Submarine|Isaac Peral's submarine]] is first tested.
*  1888   &ndash; [[Patagonian sheep farming boom|The Great Herding]] ({{langx|es|El Gran Arreo}}) begins with thousands of sheep being herded from the Argentine outpost of [[General Conesa, Río Negro|Fortín Conesa]] to [[Santa Cruz Province, Argentina|Santa Cruz]] near the [[Strait of Magellan]].<ref name=Guzman2007>{{Cite news|title=Rincón gaucho. Un arreo que extendió la frontera ganadera|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/economia/campo/un-arreo-que-extendio-la-frontera-ganadera-nid888030/|last=Guzmán|first=Yuyú|date=March 3, 2007|access-date=January 20, 2021|work=[[La Nación]]}}</ref>
*  1888   &ndash; In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, [[Annie Chapman]], is found.
*  1888   &ndash; In England, the first six [[English Football League|Football League]] matches are played.
*[[1892]] &ndash; The [[Pledge of Allegiance (United States)|Pledge of Allegiance]] is first recited.
*[[1898]] &ndash; Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are [[Candia massacre|killed]] by a Turkish mob.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rodogno|first1=Davide|title=Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815–1914|date=2012|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0691151335|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FgVlwtgT2QoC&pg=PA332|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[1900 Galveston hurricane|Galveston hurricane]]: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.