September 1 in History

ends   1999

Kurdish insurgency against Turkey

starts   1975

Bougainville attempts to secede from PNG

  1969

Col. Gaddafi overthrows King Idris in Libya

  1967

Arab states reject peace with Israel

  1961

Eritrean nationalists revolt against Ethiopia

  1951

Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS Treaty

starts   1944

US thwarts German efforts to set up weather stations in Greenland

  1939

Germany invades Poland

ends   1932

Four-day insurrection in Ecuador

  1923

Great Kanto earthquake kills over 100,000 people in Tokyo region.

  1918

Czechoslovak columns join up at Chita after clearing the south Baikal tunnel

starts   1917

Germans capture Riga

ends   1913

Kuomintang rebellion against Yuan Shikai

ends   1909

French conquer the Adrar, Mauritania*

  1906

British New Guinea transferred to Australia by Papua Act

  1905

Alberta and Saskatchewan created from North-West Territories

  1905

District of Keewatin added to Northwest Territories

  1899

Somali Dervishes declare war on British

  1880

British Arctic Territories ceded to Canada

  1870

Prussia defeats France at the Battle of Sedan

ends   1862

Northern Virginia Campaign

ends   449

Persians retake Derbent Pass from Huns*

ends   440

Vandals attack Sicily and besiege Panormus*

  385

Magnus Maximus possibly gains influence in Africa*

  380

Gratian reorganizes administration of Illyricum*

  357

Alemanni defeat Romans near Augusta Rauracorum*

ends   337

Constantius II campaigns against Sarmatians*

ends   312

Constantine defeats Maxentians at Verona*

starts   73

Romans take last Jewish stronghold at Masada*

starts   50

Sanabares of Margiana rebels against Parthia*