BATTLE OF NORDLINGEN
Image: The Battle of Nördlingen (Wikimedia Commons.)
September 6, 1634, the Battle at Nördlingen took place in southern Germany: Imperial-Spanish force led by Ferdinand of Hungary and Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand heavily defeat a combined Swedish and German protestant army led by Gustav Horn and Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar during the Thirty Years’ War. This battle ended Swedish domination in southern Germany, and it led France to become an active participant in the war.
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON
Image: The Great Fire of London, 1666. (Wikimedia Commons.)
September 6, 1666. After St Paul’s Cathedral and much of the city had been burned down over four days, the Great Fire of London is finally extinguished.
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, while also extending past the wall to the west. The death toll is generally thought to have been relatively small, although some historians have challenged this belief.
TRAIL OF TEARS
Image: The Trail of Tears, painting by Robert Lindneux, 1942
September 6, 1839. Cherokee Nation unites and ratifies constitution at Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
The Trail of Tears was an ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the “Five Civilized Tribes” between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. As part of the Indian removal, members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to newly designated Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River after the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. The Cherokee removal in 1838 (the last forced removal east of the Mississippi) was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia, in 1828, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush.
The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their newly designated Indian reserve. Thousands died from disease before reaching their destinations or shortly after. Some historians have said that the event constituted a genocide, although this label has been rejected by others and remains a matter of debate.
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