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.
— Battle of Arsuf
7 Sep 1191 — marching down the coast in a disciplined box, Richard absorbs Saladin’s harassment and then breaks him in open battle. It proves the crusaders can still win a field fight — but not that they can hold the interior.
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— Battle of Borodino
7 Sep 1812 — Some 250,000 men and 70,000+ casualties: the bloodiest single day of war until 1916. Napoleon holds the field; the Russian army survives — which is what matters.
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— Cry of Ipiranga
7 Sep 1822 — Prince Pedro, ordered home to Lisbon, chooses Brazil instead: “Independence or death!” An empire, not a republic — and slavery stays.
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— Hibiya riots
5–7 Sep 1905 — When the peace signed at Portsmouth brings no indemnity, crowds in Tokyo burn police boxes and attack pro-government newspapers; 17 people die and martial law is declared. Taxpayers had carried a war that cost several times the government’s annual budget.
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— Miss America protest
7 Sep 1968 — A few hundred women from New York Radical Women picket the pageant in Atlantic City, crowning a sheep and dropping bras, girdles and mops into a “Freedom Trash Can”. Nothing is burned, yet “bra-burners” enters the language.
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