What happend on 2nd September

01.09
03.09
1885

In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.

1870

Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan

1867

Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan marries Ichijo Masako. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko.

1864

American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city.

1862

American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.

1833

Oberlin College is founded by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.

1807

British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.

1792

During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than two hundred priests.

1789

The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.

1752

The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian Calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.