What happened on 6 September?

10 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1522 The Victoria limps home Three years to the month after leaving, one worm-riddled ship under Juan Sebastián Elcano crawls into Sanlúcar with eighteen scarecrow survivors of the 270 — and a cargo of cloves
2. 1815 Bolívar's Jamaica Letter Twice defeated and twice exiled, Bolívar writes from Kingston the most famous document of the independence era: an analysis of why the revolutions had failed, a prophecy of the rep
3. 1901 Assassination of William McKinley An anarchist shoots President McKinley in Buffalo; his death elevates the 42-year-old Theodore Roosevelt.
4. 1651 Charles II hides in the Boscobel oak Three days after his army's destruction at Worcester, the 21-year-old Charles II spends a day hidden in an oak tree at Boscobel House while Parliamentarian patrols search the woods
5. 2022 Liz Truss premiership Mini-budget collapse forces Truss out after 49 days, the shortest UK premiership.
6. 1634 Battle of Nördlingen (1634) Imperial-Spanish army crushes the Swedish-Protestant force; turning point that drags France openly into the war.
7. 1634 Battle of Nördlingen turns the tide A combined Habsburg and Spanish army destroys the main Swedish field army in Bavaria — 12,000 dead, the Protestant cause in the south broken. It is the defeat that forces France of
8. 1715 Jacobite rising of 1715 First major attempt to restore the Stuarts after the Hanoverian succession.
9. 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive A rapid Ukrainian counteroffensive recaptures large areas of the northeast, a turning point of the war.
10. 1885 Bulgarian unification Bulgaria annexes Eastern Rumelia in a bloodless coup, then routs a Serbian invasion within weeks — doubling the young state in defiance of the Berlin settlement.