In September 1483 the second Prague defenestration took place. The local population forced a change in administration by throwing unpopular constables out of the windows of their town halls, as in the days of their grandfathers.
During the legendary Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, part of the Greek city-states and the million-strong army of the Persian king Xerxes clashed. The latter eventually defeated the enemy thanks to a traitor who discovered a mountain path.
The beginning of the reign of Svatopluk's cousin Břetislav II, who became the Prince of Prague on 14 September 1092, was relatively peaceful. He continued the political line of his father, King Vratislav.
In the autumn of 1938, an anti-Czech uprising broke out in the border region, initiated by the Henlein family and consisting of a series of demonstrations and provocations. The riots were sparked by Hitler's radio speech on the evening of 12 September.
The court in Kutná Hora sent Leopold Hilsner to the gallows for the ritual murder of Anežka Hrůzová. The trial began in September 1899. Masaryk himself became involved in the case, alienating students, colleagues and acquaintances.
Prince Eugene decided to take advantage of the situation and called for an attack. He set out through the marshes of the Danube and Tisza. At the Battle of Zenta, he scattered the Turkish army, triggering the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
The Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria was the victim of an assassination attempt in 1898 while staying at the Hotel Beau Rivage in Geneva. The assassin ran towards her with a file in his hand.
The second wife of Přemysl Otakar II was the young and supposedly exceptionally beautiful Kunhuta Uherská. She married at the age of sixteen and bore the king a son, Václav II. She apparently died of tuberculosis at the age of forty.
Between Brücken and Hackpfüffel in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, a richly furnished grave of a Germanic nobleman was found in a mound dating from 480 - 530 AD. Six women and eleven animals were buried in a circle around the prince. According to experts, this is the most important archaeological site in Germany in the last 40 years...
The siege of Leningrad began in early September 1941. It lasted a full 900 days. The suffering of the local population was immeasurable. People died of hunger, cold, disease, bombing and sniping.