📅 Today in HistorySeptember 5
Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
An army led by Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV's Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
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.
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.
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.
Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
