Editing September 9 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1739]] &ndash; [[Stono Rebellion]], the largest slave uprising in [[Thirteen Colonies|Britain's mainland North American colonies]] prior to the [[American Revolution]], erupts near [[Charleston, South Carolina]].
*[[1776]] &ndash; The [[Continental Congress]] officially names its [[Political union|union]] of states the United States.
*[[1791]] &ndash; [[Washington, D.C.]], the capital of the United States, is named after President [[George Washington]].
*[[1796]] &ndash; [[Grenelle camp affair]], a failed uprising by supporters of [[Gracchus Babeuf]] against the [[French Directory]]<ref name="Crowe">{{cite book |last1=Evans Crowe |first1=Eyre |title=History of France volume V |date=1858 |publisher=Longmans Green & Co |location=London |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ccJWAAAAMAAJ&dq=grenelle+1796&pg=PR8-IA1 |access-date=14 December 2024}}</ref>
*[[1801]] &ndash; [[Alexander I of Russia]] confirms the privileges of [[Baltic governorates|Baltic provinces]].
*[[1839]] &ndash; [[John Herschel]] takes the first glass plate [[photograph]].
*[[1845]] &ndash; Possible start of the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine of Ireland]].<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=267–268|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=''Phytophthora infestans''|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ashorthistory/archive/intro182.shtml|publisher=BBC|work=A Short History of Ireland|access-date=2012-08-05|archive-date=2012-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113025628/http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ashorthistory/archive/intro182.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[1850]] &ndash; The [[Compromise of 1850]] transfers a third of [[Texas]]'s claimed territory to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10&nbsp;million of [[Texas]]'s pre-annexation debt. 
*1850 &ndash; [[California]] is admitted as the thirty-first [[U.S. state]].
*[[1855]] &ndash; [[Crimean War]]: The [[Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55)|Siege of Sevastopol]] comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Union Army]] enters [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]].
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Amalthea (moon)|Amalthea]] becomes the last moon to be discovered without the use of photography.