What is September 21?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[1217]] &ndash; [[Livonian Crusade]]: [[Estonia]]n tribal leader [[Lembitu]] and [[Livonia]]n tribal leader [[Kaupo]] are killed in the [[Battle of St. Matthew's Day]]. * [[1327]] &ndash; After rejecting the throne, King [[Edward II of England]] is [[murder]]ed in Berkeley, [[Gloucester]]. * [[1435]] &ndash; An agreement between [[Charles VII of France]] and [[Philip the Good]] ends the partnership between the English and [[Burgundy]] in the [[Hundred Years' War]]. * [[1745]] &ndash; A [[House of Hanover|Hanoverian]] army is defeated at the [[Battle of Prestonpans]] by the Jacobites under [[Charles Edward Stuart]]. * [[1776]] &ndash; Parts of [[New York City]] are burned shortly after being occupied by British forces. * [[1780]] &ndash; [[Benedict Arnold]] gives the [[Great Britain|British]] the plans to West Point. * [[1792]] &ndash; The National Convention in [[France]] abolishes the [[monarchy]]. * [[1843]] &ndash; [[John Williams Wilson]] takes control of the [[Strait of Magellan]], representing the newly independent [[Chile]]an [[government]]. * [[1846]] &ndash; [[Mexican-American War]]: The [[Battle of Monterrey]] begins. * [[1860]] &ndash; In the [[Second Opium War]], an [[United Kingdom|Anglo]]–[[France|French]] force defeats [[China|Chinese]] troops at the [[Battle of Palikao]]. * [[1896]] &ndash; A British force under [[Horatio Kitchener]] takes Dongola, [[Sudan]]. * [[1898]] &ndash; [[Empress Dowager Cixi]] seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in [[China]]. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1921]] &ndash; A storage silo in Oppau, [[Germany]], explodes, killing 561 people. * [[1934]] &ndash; A large [[typhoon]] hits western [[Honshu]], [[Japan]], killing 3,036 people. * [[1937]] &ndash; [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s [[The Hobbit]] is published. * [[1938]] &ndash; The [[Great Hurricane of 1938]] makes landfall on [[Long Island]], killing between 500 and 700 people. * [[1939]] &ndash; [[Romania]]n [[Prime Minister]] [[Armand Calinescu]] is killed by