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What happened on 6 September?
9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.
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
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
1901
Assassination of William McKinley
An anarchist shoots President McKinley in Buffalo; his death elevates the 42-year-old Theodore Roosevelt.
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
2022
Liz Truss premiership
Mini-budget collapse forces Truss out after 49 days, the shortest UK premiership.
1715
Jacobite rising of 1715
First major attempt to restore the Stuarts after the Hanoverian succession.
1634
Battle of Nördlingen turns the tide
A combined Habsburg and Spanish army destroys the main Swedish field army in Bavaria — some 12,000 to 14,000 men killed, wounded or captured, the Protestant cause in the south brok
1634
Battle of Nördlingen (1634)
Imperial-Spanish army crushes the Swedish-Protestant force; turning point that drags France openly into the war.
2022
Kharkiv counteroffensive
A rapid Ukrainian counteroffensive recaptures large areas of the northeast, a turning point of the war.
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