15 September

Events

Pre-1600

* 994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
*1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes.
*1530 – Appearance of the miraculous portrait of ''Saint Dominic in Soriano'' in Soriano Calabro, Calabria, Italy; commemorated as a feast day by the Roman Catholic Church 1644–1912.
*1556 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.

1601–1900

*1762 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
*1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
*1789 – The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
*1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) sees his first combat at the Battle of Boxtel during the Flanders Campaign.
*1795 – Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic.
*1812 – The Grande Armée under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow during the failed French invasion of Russia.
* 1812 – War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
*1813 – Followers of the Eight Trigram Sect loyal to Lin Qing attack the Forbidden City in a failed attempt to oust the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing dynasty.
*1816 – runs aground on the Doom Bar.
*1820 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
*1821 – The Captaincy General of Guatemala declares independence from Spain.
*1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive ''Rocket''.
*1835 – , with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
*1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
*1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
*1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats the Qing dynasty in the Battle of Pyongyang, causing the Qing army to withdraw to the Chinese border with Korea.

1901–present

*1915 – New Culture Movement: Chen Duxiu establishes the ''New Youth'' magazine in Shanghai.
*1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
*1918 – World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.
*1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
*1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the ''Luftwaffe'' launches its largest and most concentrated attack of the entire campaign.
*1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.
*1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
* 1944 – The Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
*1945 – A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.
*1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hits the Kantō region, in Japan killing around 1,000-2,000 people.
*1948 – The Indian Army captures the towns of Jalna, Latur, Mominabad

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