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81 – Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
326 – Helena of Constantinople discovers the True Cross and the Holy Sepulchre (Jesus's tomb) in Jerusalem.
629 – Emperor Heraclius enters Constantinople in triumph after his victory over the Persian Empire.
786 – "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun.
1180 – Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
1607 – Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
1682 – Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
1752 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
1763 – Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War.
1791 – The Papal States lose Avignon to the French Empire.
1808 – Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes in the bloody Battle of Oravais.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
1814 – The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
1829 – The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1846 – Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
1847 – Mexican–American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
1862 – In West Virginia, federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry.
1901 – U.S. President William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the youngest man to serve as U.S. President.
1914 – HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
1917 – Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
1937 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans U.S. ships from trading arms with China or Japan.
1939 – World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
1940 – Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.
1943 – World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in Viannos, whose death toll would exceeded 500 persons.
1944 – American Marines of the 1st Marine division landed on the Japanese held island of Peleliu in support of General Douglas MacArthur’s planned recapturing of the Philippines.
1944 – World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
1954 – In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
1958 – The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
1960 – Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
1960: The Wichita Project in Kansas was approved.
1969 – The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date.
1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
1979 – Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
1982 – President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
1984 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
1985 – Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
1985 – The Golden Girls a television sitcom premieres on NBC.
1987 – The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
1991: The government of South Africa, the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party signed a national peace pact.
1992 – The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
1994 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
1995 – Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan.
1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
1999 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
2000 – Microsoft releases Windows ME.
2001 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
2003 – In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
2007 – Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
2008 – All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Uplifting of the Holy Cross Greater Double
Commemoration of the Octave of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin
Commemoration of the Octave of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin
Formerly, the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following 14 September were observed as one of the four sets of Ember days. In the Irish calendar they were known as Quarter tense. (Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches)
Contemporary Western
Feast of the Cross
Elevation of the Holy Cross
Aelia Flaccilla (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Crescentius of Rome
Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse (one of Martyr Saints of China)
Maternus of Cologne
Notburga
Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse (one of Martyr Saints of China)
Maternus of Cologne
Notburga
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
September 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council
Repose of Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople (407)
Martyr Papas of Lycaonia (305)
Saint Aelia Flaccilla the Empress c. 385), wife of Theodosius the Great (400)
Martyr Macarios of Thessalonica, Dionysiou monastery at Mt. Athos (1522)
Martyr Theocles and child-martyr Valerian
The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life Giving Cross
"Lesna" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council
Repose of Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople (407)
Martyr Papas of Lycaonia (305)
Saint Aelia Flaccilla the Empress c. 385), wife of Theodosius the Great (400)
Martyr Macarios of Thessalonica, Dionysiou monastery at Mt. Athos (1522)
Martyr Theocles and child-martyr Valerian
The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life Giving Cross
"Lesna" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
Coptic Orthodox
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