Calendar date · September

What happened on September 19

On September 19, 96: Nerva, suspected of complicity of the death of Domitian, is declared emperor by Senate. The Senate then annuls laws passed by Domitian and orders his statues to be destroyed.

Events

49

across history

Notable births

50

Notable deaths

50

Zodiac

Virgo

Featured moment · 96

Nerva, suspected of complicity of the death of Domitian, is declared emperor by Senate. The Senate then annuls laws passed by Domitian and orders his statues to be destroyed.

AD 96 (XCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valens and Vetus. The denomination AD 96 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

People

Born on September 19

Precious Achiuwa 1999– Nigerian basketball player (born 1999)
Nolan Patrick 1998– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1998)
Trae Young 1998– American basketball player (born 1998)
Brandon Clarke 1996– Canadian basketball player (1996–2026)
Dejounte Murray 1996– American basketball player (born 1996)
Chris Silva 1996– Gabonese basketball player (born 1996)
Brent Faiyaz 1995– American R&B singer (born 1995)
Rachel Sennott 1995– American actress and comedian (born 1995)
Pi'erre Bourne 1993– American record producer and rapper (born 1993)
Show 9 more — notable births on September 19
Jiro Kuroshio 1992– Japanese professional wrestler (born 1992)
Palmer Luckey 1992– American entrepreneur (born 1992)
Diego Antonio Reyes 1992– Mexican footballer (born 1992)
CJ McCollum 1991– American basketball player (born 1991)
Saki Fukuda 1990– Japanese actress and singer (born 1990)
Savvas Gentsoglou 1990– Greek footballer
Stephon Gilmore 1990– American football player (born 1990)
Kieran Trippier 1990– English footballer (born 1990)
George Springer 1989– American baseball player (born 1989)

People

Died on September 19

John Challis English actor (1942–2021)
Jimmy Greaves English footballer (1940–2021)
Dinky Soliman Filipino politician, activist, and social worker (1953–2021)
John Turner Prime Minister of Canada in 1984
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011
Arthur Mitchell American ballet dancer and choreographer (1934–2018)
Bernard "Bunny" Carr Irish television presenter (1927–2018)
Leonid Kharitonov Russian choir-soloist and concert singer
Jackie Collins English novelist (1937–2015)
Show 9 more — notable deaths on September 19
Todd Ewen Canadian ice hockey player (1966–2015)
Masajuro Shiokawa Japanese politician
Audrey Long American actress (1922–2014)
Robert Barnard English novelist
John Reger American football player (1931–2013)
William Ungar Polish-American author and philanthropist (1913–2013)
John D. Vanderhoof American politician
Hiroshi Yamauchi Japanese businessman (1927–2013)
Rino Ferrario Italian footballer (1926–2012)

Timeline

Every September 19 on record

  1. 96 Nerva, suspected of complicity of the death of Domitian, is declared emperor by Senate. The Senate then annuls laws passed by Domitian and orders his statues to be destroyed.

    Calendar year

    AD 96 (XCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valens and Vetus. The denomination AD 96 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  2. 634 Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.

    Part of the Muslim Conquest of Syria

    The siege of Damascus (634) lasted from 21 August to 19 September 634 before the city fell to the Rashidun Caliphate. Damascus was the first major city of the Eastern Roman Empire to fall in the Muslim conquest of Syria.

  3. 1356 Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures King John II.

    1356 battle of the Hundred Years' War

    The Battle of Poitiers was fought on 19 September 1356, during the Hundred Years' War, between a French army commanded by King John II and an Anglo-Gascon force under Edward, the Black Prince. It took place in western France, 5 miles (8 km) south of Poitiers, when approximately 14,000 to 16,000 French attacked a strong defensive position held by 6,000 Anglo-Gascons.

  4. 1410 End of the Siege of Marienburg: The State of the Teutonic Order repulses the joint Polish—Lithuanian forces.

    Part of the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War

    The siege of Marienburg was an unsuccessful two-month siege of the castle in Marienburg (Malbork), the capital of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights. The joint Polish and Lithuanian forces, under command of King Władysław II Jagiełło and Grand Duke Vytautas, besieged the castle between 26 July and 19 September 1410 in a bid for complete conquest of Prussia after the great victory in the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg). However, the castle withstood the siege and the Knights conceded only to minor territorial losses in the Peace of Thorn (1411).

  5. 1676 Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.

    Town and fort established in the Virginia Colony

    The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. 5 mi (4 km) southwest of present-day Williamsburg. S.

  6. 1777 American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
  7. 1778 The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
  8. 1796 George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
  9. 1799 French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
  10. 1846 Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
  11. 1852 Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte.
  12. 1862 American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Sterling Price.
  13. 1863 American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
  14. 1864 American Civil War: Union troops under Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by Jubal Early. With over 50,000 troops engaged, it was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley.
  15. 1868 La Gloriosa begins in Spain.
Show 15 earlier entries from September 19
  1. 1870 Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city held out for over four months before surrendering.
  2. 1893 In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
  3. 1902 A stampede at Shiloh Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, leads to the death of 115 attendees.
  4. 1916 World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
  5. 1939 World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
  6. 1940 World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp to gather and smuggle out information for the resistance movement.
  7. 1944 World War II: The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will become the second-longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought.
  8. 1944 World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed, which officially ended the Continuation War.
  9. 1946 The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
  10. 1950 Korean War: An attack by North Korean forces was repelled at the Battle of Nam River.
  11. 1960 Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani President Ayub Khan sign the Indus Waters Treaty for the control and management of the Indus, Chenab, Jhelum, Ravi, Sutlej and Beas rivers.
  12. 1970 Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
  13. 1970 Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
  14. 1976 Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
  15. 1976 Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object.

Around the world

Holidays on September 19

Keep going

More to explore

The zodiac sign covering September 19 Virgo Browse the calendar Every day in September Browse the calendar Every day in September