On This Day: September 11th

Coalition forces, including the famous winged Hussars, led by Polish King John III Sobieski lift the siege laid by Ottoman forces ahead of the Battle of Vienna.

Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.

Henry Hudson arrives on Manhattan Island and meets the indigenous people living there.

Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta.

Santiago, Chile, is attacked by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco, to free eight indigenous chiefs held captive by the Spaniards.

Lithuanian Civil War (1389-1392): The Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius.

Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English.

An earthquake occurred in the south of Great Britain, notably causing multiple fatalities as well as destroying St Michael's Church on Glastonbury Tor.

Isaac II Angelos kills Stephen Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronikos I Komnenos and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends: The Roman Empire suffers the greatest defeat of its history and the Rhine is established as the border between the Empire and the so-called barbarians for the next four hundred years.