WHAT HAPPENED ON 5. SEPTEMBER
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Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu. (5. September 917)

Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris. (5. September 1590)

Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers. (5. September 1661)

Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died. (5. September 1666)

War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay. (5. September 1697)

In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry. (5. September 1698)

Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska. (5. September 1725)

First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia. (5. September 1774)

Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War : the British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown. (5. September 1781)

French Revolution: the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror. (5. September 1793)

Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law. (5. September 1798)

War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses. (5. September 1812)

Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber"). (5. September 1816)

Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas. (5. September 1836)

The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing Dynasty of China. (5. September 1839)

Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan. (5. September 1840)

American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign. (5. September 1862)

James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon. (5. September 1862)

François Achille Bazaine becomes Marshal of France. (5. September 1864)

American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska. (5. September 1877)