On September 6
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly September 6 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Sep 3 – Sep 9)
On 4 September 476 CE the Germanic commander Odoacer, leading barbarian foederati in Italy, deposed the teenage emperor Romulus Augustulus at Ravenna after defeating and executing the boy's father, the general Orestes, who had refused his…
On 4 September 1998 Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University PhD students, incorporated Google, building on a research project begun in 1996 known as BackRub.
Over several days in September 9 CE, a coalition of Germanic peoples led by Arminius — a chieftain who had served as a Roman auxiliary officer and held Roman citizenship — ambushed and annihilated three legions (XVII, XVIII and XIX) under…
On 3 September 1260, at Ain Jalut ('Spring of Goliath') in the Jezreel Valley of Palestine, the Mamluk army of Egypt under Sultan Qutuz and the general Baybars decisively defeated a Mongol force commanded by Hülegü's lieutenant Kitbuqa.
Signed in Paris on 3 September 1783, the Treaty of Paris formally ended the American Revolutionary War and secured Great Britain's recognition of the United States as a sovereign, independent nation.
On 7 September 1822, beside the Ipiranga brook near São Paulo, Prince Regent Pedro of Braganza proclaimed Brazil's independence from Portugal in the episode remembered as the Grito do Ipiranga ("Cry of Ipiranga").
The Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901) was an anti-foreign, anti-Christian uprising in northern China led by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, whose members—nicknamed 'Boxers' for their martial-arts practices—believed ritual training…
Speaking at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 7 September 2013, Chinese leader Xi Jinping proposed building a 'Silk Road Economic Belt' linking China across Central Asia to Europe.
In early September 2025, leaderless youth protests erupted across Nepal, ignited by a government ban on major social-media platforms and fuelled by deep anger over entrenched corruption and economic stagnation.