Among many other events, September saw the Black Prince, eldest son of Edward III, lead the English to victory over the French at the Battle of Poitiers (pictured above).
| 1 Sept. | 1159 | The death of the only English Pope Adrian IV (Nicholas Breakspeare). | |
| 2 Sept. | 1666 | The Great Fire of London begins in Pudding Lane and rages for 5 days, but kills only 9 people. | |
| 3 Sept. | 1939 | Britain and France declare war on Germany. | |
| 4 Sept. | 1962 | The Beatles start their first recording session at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, London | |
| 5 Sept. | 1800 | The end of the Siege of Malta, as Napoleon’s forces surrender to the British following a two year long naval blockade. | |
| 6 Sept. | 1620 | The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Devon, carrying the Pilgrim Fathers to America. | |
| 7 Sept. | 1533 | Birth of Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. | |
| 8 Sept. | 1944 | The first V2 flying bombs kill 3 people in London. | |
| 9 Sept. | 1513 | James IV of Scotland is killed at the Battle of Flodden. | |
| 10 Sept. | 1771 | Birth of Mungo Park, Scottish explorer who published his ‘Travels in the Interior of Africa’ in 1799. | |
| 11 Sept. | 1915 | Britain’s first Womens Institute opens in Wales. | |
| 12 Sept. | 1908 | Marriage of Winston Churchill to Clementine Hozier. | |
| 13 Sept | 1902 | Harry Jackson becomes the first person in Britain to be convicted on fingerprint evidence. | |
| 14 Sept. | 1752 | The first day of the Gregorian calendar in Britain. | |
| 15 Sept. | 1830 | MP William Huskisson becomes the first rail fatality at the opening of the Liverpool Manchester Railway. | |
| 16 Sept. | 1400 | Owain Glyndwr proclaimed Prince of Wales. | |
| 17 Sept. | 1701 | King James II of England died whilst in exile in France. | |
| 18 Sept. | 1709 | Birth of Samuel Johnson, compiler of the first English dictionary. | |
| 19 Sept. | 1356 | The Black Prince, eldest son of Edward III, leads the English to victory over the French at the Battle of Poitiers. | |
| 20 Sept. | 1258 | Consecration of Salisbury Cathedral. | |
| 21 Sept. | 1327 | Death of Edward II, murdered with a red hot poker by his jailers. | |
| 22 Sept. | 1735 | Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole moves in to 10 Downing Street. | |
| 23 Sept. | 1848 | Chewing gum is produced commercially for the first time. | |
| 24 Sept. | 1776 | The first St. Leger horserace is run at Doncaster, Yorkshire. | |
| 25 Sept. | 1818 | First transfusion of human blood is performed at Guy’s Hospital, London. | |
| 26 Sept. | 1580 | The Golden Hind arrives in Plymouth harbour having sailed round the world under the captaincy of Sir Francis Drake. Drake plundered a few Spanish ships en-route to keep morale high! | |
| 27 Sept. | 1888 | First use of the name, ‘Jack the Ripper‘ in an anonymous letter to the central news agency. | |
| 28 Sept. | 1745 | ‘God Save the King’ is sung for the first time at London’s Drury Lane Theatre. | |
| 29 Sept. | 1758 | Birth of Horatio Nelson. | |
| 30 Sept. | 1938 | Misguided British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain says, after meeting Hitler in Munich, ‘I believe it is peace for our time‘. | |
