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What happened on 22 September?

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

  1. 1980 Iran-Iraq War Bloody eight-year war between Iran and Iraq; trench warfare and chemical weapons.
  2. 1792 Proclamation of the First French Republic The day after the cannonade at Valmy turns back the Prussian invasion of revolutionary France, the new National Convention's first act is to abolish the monarchy; the French Republ
  3. 1828 Death of Shaka Zulu Assassination of Shaka by his half-brother Dingane; Zulu state continues to dominate.
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