Editing September 21 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1745]] &ndash; A British government army led by [[John Cope (British Army officer)|Sir John Cope]] is [[Battle of Prestonpans|defeated]] in less than 15 minutes by the [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] forces of [[Charles Edward Stuart|Prince Charles Edward Stuart]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Schofield|first=Victoria|title=The Highland Furies: The Black Watch 1739-1899, the Official Regimental History|location=London|publisher=Quercus|date=2012|isbn=9781849165501|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=guDQBAAAQBAJ|page=25}}</ref>
*[[1776]] &ndash; Part of [[New York City]] is [[Great Fire of New York (1776)|burned]] shortly after being occupied by British forces.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Immerwahr |first1=Daniel |title=Did George Washington Burn New York? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/03/george-washington-burn-new-york-great-fire-1776/672780/ |access-date=16 February 2023 |magazine=The Atlantic |volume=331 |issue=2 |date=31 January 2023 |page=74 |language=en |url-access=subscription |issn=1072-7825}}</ref>
*[[1780]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Benedict Arnold]] gives the British the plans to West Point.
*[[1792]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: The [[National Convention]] [[Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy|abolishes the monarchy]].
*[[1809]] &ndash; British [[Secretary of State for War and the Colonies|Secretary of War]] [[Lord Castlereagh]] and [[Foreign Secretary (United Kingdom)|Foreign Secretary]] [[George Canning]] meet in a [[Castlereagh-Canning duel|duel]] on [[Putney Heath]], with Castlereagh wounding Canning in the thigh.<ref>Hunt, Giles. ''The Duel: Castlereagh, Canning and Deadly Cabinet Rivalry''. Bloomsbury Academic, 2008. p. 137</ref>
*[[1843]] &ndash; The crew of [[Chilean schooner Ancud (1843)|schooner ''Ancud'']], led by [[John Williams Wilson]], [[Chilean colonization of the Strait of Magellan|takes possession]] of the [[Strait of Magellan]] on behalf of the Chilean government.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.defensa.cl/noticias/a-178-anos-de-la-toma-de-posesion-del-estrecho-de-magallanes-ministro-prokurica-resalta-a-los-unifor/ |title=A 178 años de la Toma de Posesión del Estrecho de Magallanes, ministro Prokurica resalta a los uniformados que hacen Patria en lugares apartados |date=2021-09-22 |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=Ministerio de Defensa Nacional |language=Spanish}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=A history of the Chilean boundaries |last=Talbott |first=Robert D.|chapter=The Strait of Magellan |publisher=The Iowa State University Press |year=1974 |isbn=0-8138-0305-5 |edition=Replica |location=|pages=82}}</ref> 
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Second Opium War]]: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the [[Battle of Palikao]].
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Taiping Rebellion]]: The [[Ever Victorious Army]] defeats Taiping forces at the [[Battle of Cixi]].<ref name="Jian">{{cite book |last1=Jian |first1=Youwen |title=The Taiping Revolutionary Movement |date=1973 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |page=485}}</ref><ref name="Carr">{{cite book |last1=Carr |first1=Caleb |title=The Devil Soldier: The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |location=New York |pages=293–294}}</ref>
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan]]: British forces under the command of [[Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|Horatio Kitchener]] take [[Dongola]].
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Empress Dowager Cixi]] seizes power and ends the [[Hundred Days' Reform]] in [[Qing dynasty|China]].