September 2 | Flash History Archive
A quiet gaze into the madness of our past.
In 1666, a spark from a small bakery ignited the Great Fire of London, reducing four-fifths of the imperial capital and its ancient monuments to ash.
The grandest monuments of an empire require generations of sweat to raise, yet a stray ember and a cruel wind can return them to dust before dawn.
44 BC: Roman statesman Cicero delivered the first of his Philippics, a series of speeches condemning Mark Antony.
31 BC: Battle of Actium: Octavian decisively defeated the combined naval fleets of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt.
1192 AD: Third Crusade: King Richard the Lionheart and Sultan Saladin signed the Treaty of Jaffa, concluding hostilities.
1666 AD: The Great Fire of London ignited in Pudding Lane, consuming Old St Paul's Cathedral and much of the medieval city.
1752 AD: Great Britain and its colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar, advancing the following day from September 2 to September 14.
1789 AD: The 1st United States Congress officially established the United States Department of the Treasury.
1792 AD: French Revolution: The September Massacres erupted across Paris, resulting in the summary execution of over a thousand prisoners.
1807 AD: Napoleonic Wars: The British Royal Navy began the bombardment of Copenhagen to seize the neutral Danish-Norwegian fleet.
1856 AD: The Tianjing Incident erupted in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as Northern King Wei Changhui assassinated Eastern King Yang Xiuqing.
1861 AD: The Sino-Prussian Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation was signed in Tianjin between Qing China and Prussia.
1864 AD: American Civil War: Union forces commanded by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman formally captured and occupied Atlanta.
1870 AD: Battle of Sedan: Emperor Napoleon III and over 100,000 French troops surrendered to Prussian forces, collapsing the Second Empire.
Chronos Computation Complete: Archives 44 BC–1870 AD Developing.