Events on September 13 58
Year 533
Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.
Year 1229
Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
Year 1437
Battle of Tangier: a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier.
Year 1504
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
Year 1541
After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
Year 1609
Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him - the Hudson River.
Year 1759
Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
Year 1782
American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
Year 1788
The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
Year 1808
Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
Year 1812
War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
Year 1814
In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.
Year 1843
The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.
Year 1847
Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
Year 1848
Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1 1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
Year 1862
American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
Year 1899
Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
Year 1899
Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
Year 1900
Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
Year 1914
World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
Year 1923
Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
Year 1933
Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
Year 1935
Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York-Ontario).
Year 1942
World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
Year 1948
Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.
Year 1948
Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Year 1953
Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Year 1956
The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
Year 1962
An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi,
Year 1964
South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.
Year 1971
State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt.
Year 1971
Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the People's Republic of China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
Year 1979
South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
Year 1985
Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
Year 1987
Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
Year 1988
Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
Year 1993
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
Year 2001
Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
Year 2007
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
Year 2008
Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
Year 2008
Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.
Year 2013
Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.
Year ?
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
Year ?
The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.