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On September 14, 81: Domitian became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.

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Featured moment · 81

Domitian became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.

D. 81 (LXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silva and Pollio.

People

Born on September 14

Han 2000– South Korean singer and rapper (born 2000)
Benjamin Ingrosso 1997– Swedish singer and songwriter
Dominic Solanke 1997– English footballer (born 1997)
Hugh Bernard 1996– English cricketer
Myles Wright 1996– English footballer
Jevon Carter 1995– American basketball player (born 1995)
Deshaun Watson 1995– American football player (born 1995)
Brahim Darri 1994– Dutch footballer (born 1994)
Gary Harris 1994– American basketball player (born 1994)
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Daniel O'Shaughnessy 1994– Finnish footballer (born 1994)
Krasimir Stanoev 1994– Bulgarian footballer
Brandon Brown 1993– American racing driver (born 1993)
Connor Fields 1992– American professional BMX racer
Cassie Sharpe 1992– Canadian freestyle skier (born 1992)
Zico 1992– South Korean rapper (born 1992)
Dee Milliner 1991– American football player (born 1991)
Nana 1991– South Korean singer and actress (born 1991)
Shayne Topp 1991– American YouTuber and comedian (born 1991)

People

Died on September 14

Jim Edgar American politician (1946–2025)
Ricky Hatton British professional boxer (1978–2025)
Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah Kuwaiti royal and politician (1942–2024)
Otis Davis American sprinter (1932–2024)
Norm Macdonald Canadian comedian (1959–2021)
Ethel Johnson American professional wrestler
Zienia Merton British actress (1945–2018)
Davey Browne Australian boxer
Fred DeLuca American businessman (1947–2015)
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Martin Kearns Musical artist
Corneliu Vadim Tudor Romanian politician, poet and writer (1949–2015)
Tony Auth American cartoonist (1942–2014)
Peter Gutteridge Musical artist
E. Jennifer Monaghan English educator and historian (1933–2014)
Maksym Bilyi Ukrainian footballer
Osama El-Baz Egyptian diplomat
Faith Leech Australian swimmer
Jacques Antoine French game show creator and producer (1924–2012)

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Every September 14 on record

  1. 81 Domitian became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.

    Calendar year

    D. 81 (LXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silva and Pollio.

  2. 786 "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun.

    5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809)

    Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ar-Rashīd, or simply Hārūn ibn al-Mahdī, famously known as Hārūn al-Rashīd, was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 until his death in March 809. His reign is traditionally regarded to be the beginning of the Islamic Golden Age. His epithet al-Rashid translates to "the Just", "the Upright", or "the Rightly-Guided".

  3. 919 Battle of Islandbridge: High King Niall Glúndub is killed while leading an Irish coalition against the Vikings of Uí Ímair, led by King Sitric Cáech.

    AD 919 attempt to drive Vikings from Ireland

    The Battle of Islandbridge, also called the Battle of Áth Cliath, took place on 14 September 919, between a coalition of native Irish, led by Niall Glúndub, overking of the Northern Uí Néill and High King of Ireland, and the Dublin-based Vikings of the Uí Ímair, led by Sitric Cáech. It was one in a series of battles initiated by the native Irish to attempt to drive the Vikings of the Uí Ímair from Ireland. The battle was a decisive victory for Sitric Cáech and the Uí Ímair, with Niall Glúndub and five other Irish kings dying in the battle.

  4. 1115 Roger of Salerno's Crusader army defeats a numerically superior Seljuk army in the battle of Sarmin

    Regent of Antioch from 1112 to 1119

    Roger of Salerno was regent of the Principality of Antioch from 1112 to 1119. He was the son of Richard of the Principate and the nephew of Tancred, Prince of Galilee, both participants on the First Crusade. He became regent of Antioch when Tancred died in 1112; the actual prince, Bohemond II, was still a child.

  5. 1180 Genpei War: In the Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan, the new military commander of the Minamoto clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo, is routed by Ōba Kagechika of the Taira clan.

    Conflict between the Minamoto and Taira clans of feudal Japan (1180–1185)

    The Genpei War was a national civil war between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the late Heian period of Japan. It resulted in the downfall of the Taira and the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate under Minamoto no Yoritomo, who appointed himself as Shōgun in 1192, governing Japan as a military dictator from the eastern city of Kamakura.

  6. 1226 The first recorded instance of the Catholic practice of perpetual Eucharistic adoration formally begins in Avignon, France.
  7. 1402 Battle of Homildon Hill: An invading Scottish army under Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany and Archibald, Earl Douglas is decimated by a contingent of 500 English archers under the command of George, Earl of March and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland.
  8. 1682 Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
  9. 1685 Morean War: the Battle of Kalamata ends in a Venetian victory over the forces of the Ottoman Empire under the Kapudan Pasha.
  10. 1723 Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.
  11. 1741 George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
  12. 1752 The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
  13. 1763 Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War.
  14. 1782 American Revolutionary War: Review of the French troops under General Rochambeau by General George Washington at Verplanck's Point, New York.
  15. 1791 The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
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  1. 1808 Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais.
  2. 1812 Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
  3. 1814 Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
  4. 1829 The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
  5. 1846 Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
  6. 1862 American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
  7. 1901 U.S. president William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
  8. 1911 Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot by Dmitry Bogrov while attending a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Kiev Opera House, in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II.
  9. 1914 HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
  10. 1917 The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.
  11. 1936 Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaurès, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza.
  12. 1939 World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
  13. 1940 Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.
  14. 1943 World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.
  15. 1944 World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.

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