2 September 31 BC: Octavian's forces defeat those under Mark Antony and Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece at the Battle of Actium

🇬🇧 Nelson’s Column in London festooned with flags to celebrate VJ Day, September 1945.

Danzig Police destroying a Polish border post following Germany's invasion of Poland, September 1939 (colourised)

🇫🇷 French soldiers in Saint Folquin, September 3, 1917, WWI (colourised)

Harvesting grapes, c. 1900

First graders learning to brush their teeth, 1920s

4 September 476 AD: The child ruler Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman Emperor, abdicates after forces led by the Germanic barbarian Odoacer invade Rome

Farmers piling hay, UK, 1920s

🇺🇸 Goodbye kissing before departing to fight in Korea, Los Angeles, September 1950

A French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British forces under Admiral Thomas Graves and Samuel Hood at the Battle of the Chesapeake [Battle of the Virginia Capes] and trap General Lord Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown, 5 September 1781. This crucial battle of the American Revolution proved decisive in the Siege of Yorktown, effectively securing independence for the Thirteen Colonies.

🇫🇷 French troops charge at the First Battle of the Marne, WWI, September 1914

Fetching water from the well, Sardinia, Italy, c. 1900

6 September 1522: Ferdinand Magellan's Spanish expedition, now led by Juan Sebastián Elcano, returns to Seville without their captain after a three-year epic voyage, becoming the first to circumnavigate the globe. Pictured above is Magellan's ship Victoria, the only ship in the fleet to complete the circumnavigation. Detail from a map by Abraham Ortelius, 1590.

🇺🇸 6 September 1901: US President William McKinley is shot and assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York

7 September 70 AD: A Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem. This is commemorated on the Arch of Titus, which depicts Roman soldiers carrying spoils from the temple, including the menorah.

The coronation of Emperor Alexander II and Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, 7 September 1856 (painting by Mihály Zichy. The painting depicts the moment when the Emperor crowned the Empress.

German prisoners under guard of the 2nd Armored Division of the French general, Philippe Leclerc, in September 1944.

🇬🇧 Three children enjoying a snack in the playground of a ruined London school destroyed by German bombs, c. September 1941

First permanent European settlement in the US is founded at St. Augustine, Florida, by the Spanish, September 1565

🇵🇱 Members of the Polish Home Army riding on a captured German Schützenpanzerwagen during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 (colourised)