THE DAY IN HISTORY · SEPTEMBER 7

September 7 in history

What happened on September 7: 5 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1191, 1812, 1822, 1905 and 1968, each linked to the map that shows it.

1191 — Battle of Arsuf

7 Sep 1191 — Richard’s army marches down the coast in a disciplined box, enduring Saladin’s harassment before defeating him in open battle at Arsuf. The victory shows that crusaders can still win a field battle; it does not show that they can hold the interior.

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1812 — Battle of Borodino

7 Sep 1812 — Some 250,000 men fought at Borodino, and more than 70,000 became casualties. It was the bloodiest single day of war until 1916. Napoleon held the field, but the Russian army survived; holding the field had not destroyed his opponent.

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1822 — Cry of Ipiranga

7 Sep 1822 — Prince Pedro had been ordered home to Lisbon. He chose Brazil instead, declaring: “Independence or death!” The new country became an empire rather than a republic, and slavery remained.

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1905 — Hibiya riots

5–7 Sep 1905 — The peace signed at Portsmouth brought Japan no indemnity, although taxpayers had borne a war costing several times the government’s annual budget. Crowds in Tokyo burned police boxes and attacked pro-government newspapers. Seventeen people died, and martial law was declared.

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1968 — Miss America protest

7 Sep 1968 — A few hundred women from New York Radical Women picket the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. They crown a sheep and put bras, girdles and mops into a “Freedom Trash Can”. Nothing is burned, yet “bra-burners” enters the language.

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