Editing September 2 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1601]] &ndash; [[4th Spanish Armada]] makes landfall in Ireland at [[Kinsale]].<ref>{{cite book| last=Glasgow | first=Tom |publisher= Military History Society of Ireland |title= The Elizabethan Navy in Ireland 1558- 1603|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7NM_AAAAYAAJ |pages=301–04 | date=1966 }}</ref>
*[[1649]] &ndash; The Italian city of [[Castro, Lazio|Castro]] is completely destroyed by the forces of [[Pope Innocent X]], ending the [[Wars of Castro]].
*[[1666]] &ndash; The [[Great Fire of London]] breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings, including [[Old St Paul's Cathedral]].
*[[1752]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]], along with its [[British Empire|overseas possessions]], [[Adoption of the Gregorian calendar#Great Britain and its colonies|adopts the Gregorian calendar]].
*[[1789]] &ndash; The [[United States Department of the Treasury]] is founded.
*[[1792]] &ndash; During what became known as the [[September Massacres]] of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
*[[1806]] &ndash; A massive landslide destroys the town of [[Goldau]], Switzerland, killing 457.
*[[1807]] &ndash; Napoleonic Wars: The British Royal Navy [[Battle of Copenhagen (1807)|bombards Copenhagen]] with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
*[[1856]] &ndash; The [[Tianjing incident]] takes place in [[Nanjing]], China.
*[[1859]] &ndash; The [[Carrington Event]] is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Green |first1=James L. |last2=Boardsen |first2=Scott |last3=Odenwald |first3=Sten |last4=Humble |first4=John |last5=Pazamickas |first5=Katherine A. |title=Eyewitness reports of the great auroral storm of 1859 |journal=Advances in Space Research |date=January 2006 |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=145–154 |doi=10.1016/j.asr.2005.12.021 |bibcode=2006AdSpR..38..145G |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20050210157 |access-date=28 August 2020|hdl=2060/20050210157 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: United States President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General [[George B. McClellan]] to full command after General [[John Pope (general)|John Pope]]'s disastrous defeat at the [[Second Battle of Bull Run]].
*[[1864]] &ndash; American Civil War: Union forces enter [[Atlanta]], a day after the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] defenders flee the city, ending the [[Atlanta Campaign]].
*[[1867]] &ndash; Mutsuhito, [[Emperor Meiji]] of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as [[Empress Shōken]]. 
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Franco-Prussian War]]: [[Battle of Sedan]]: [[Prussia]]n forces take [[Napoleon III of France]] and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Rock Springs massacre]]: In [[Rock Springs, Wyoming]], 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their [[Overseas Chinese|Chinese]] fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Battle of Omdurman]]: British and Egyptian troops defeat [[Sudan]]ese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.