What is September 5?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[917]] &ndash; [[Liu Yan]] declares himself [[Emperor]], establishing the southern Han [[state]] in [[China]]. * [[1590]] &ndash; [[Alexander Farnese]]'s army forces [[Henry IV of France]] to raise the [[Siege of Paris]]. * [[1666]] &ndash; [[Great Fire of London]] ended: A large fire in [[London]] burns out after three days. 10,000 buildings including [[St. Paul's Cathedral]] were destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died. * [[1698]] &ndash; In an effort to move his people away from [[Asia]]tic customs, Tsar [[Peter I of Russia]] imposes a [[tax]] on beards; All men except priests and peasants, are required to pay a tax of one hundred [[ruble]]s a year and the commoners had to pay one [[kopek]] each. * [[1725]] &ndash; [[Louis XV of France]] and [[Maria Leszczynska]] marry in [[Fontainbleau]]. * [[1774]] &ndash; First [[Continental Congress]] assembles in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. * [[1781]] &ndash; [[Battle of the Chesapeake]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]]: The [[Great Britain|British]] [[Navy]] is repelled by the [[France|French]] Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown. * [[1793]] &ndash; In [[France]], the [[French National Convention]] votes to implement terror measures to enforce the principles of the [[French Revolution]], initiating (starting) the [[Reign of Terror]]. * [[1798]] &ndash; [[Conscription]] ([[military]] service) is made mandatory (meaning young men had to do it) in [[France]]. * [[1800]] &ndash; [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] surrenders [[Malta]] to [[Great Britain]]. * [[1812]] &ndash; [[War of 1812]]: [[Siege of Fort Wayne]] begins with [[Chief]] [[Winamac]]'s forces attacking two [[soldier]]s returning from the [[fort]]'s outhouses. * [[1836]] &ndash; [[Sam Houston]] is elected as the first president of the [[Republic of Texas]]. * [[1839]] &ndash; The [[United Kingdom]] declares the [[First Opium War]] on the [[Qing Dynasty]] of [[China]]. * [[1840]] &ndash; First performance of [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'