What happened on 9 September?

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

1. 1976 Death of Mao Zedong Mao's death ends the Cultural Revolution era and opens the way for Deng Xiaoping's reforms.
2. 1850 Compromise of 1850 Series of US laws temporarily resolving slave/free state tensions.
3. 1899 The Rennes verdict Retried before a new court-martial with the world's press watching, Dreyfus is convicted again — 'with extenuating circumstances', a verdict incoherent on its face — and promptly p
4. 1910 Amundsen turns south in secret Roald Amundsen, publicly bound for the Arctic, tells his crew at Madeira that the Fram is actually going to Antarctica — and cables Scott, already en route: 'Beg leave to inform yo
5. 1513 Battle of Flodden James IV and the flower of Scottish nobility fall to an English army, a national catastrophe.
6. 1855 The fall of Sevastopol After 349 days, the French storming of the Malakoff redoubt makes the fortress untenable, and the Russians burn their fleet, blow their magazines and march out across a bridge of b
7. 1087 William the Conqueror dies at Rouen Injured campaigning in France, the Conqueror dies at Rouen; his attendants strip the room and his bloated body bursts at the funeral. England goes to his third son William Rufus, N
8. 1936 Europe agrees not to intervene Twenty-seven nations join the London Non-Intervention Committee — which Germany and Italy sign while running guns and squadrons to Franco, and which Britain and France largely hono
9. 1927 Autumn Harvest Uprising Mao leads peasants and mutinous soldiers in a failed rising in Hunan, then retreats with the survivors to the Jinggang Mountains — the start of his rural strategy.
10. 1739 Stono Rebellion Largest slave rebellion in the colonial American South; slaves in South Carolina kill ~25 whites; brutally suppressed.
11. 1836 Emerson's Nature Emerson's short book proposes that nature is a symbol of spirit and every individual can know God directly — the manifesto of Transcendentalism.
12. 1668 Molière's The Miser The skinflint Harpagon hoards his cash box while his children plot their own marriages — Molière's prose comedy of avarice, borrowed from Plautus.
13. 1943 Brecht's Life of Galileo Written in Danish exile and premiered in Zurich, Brecht's play turns Galileo's recantation into a question about science, power and the cost of cowardice.