I often wonder what significant anniversaries are due at some point in the future as some of them might be of interest as triggers for blog posts or visits somewhere. However, it is often difficult to find out quickly what events have significant anniversaries - hence this section on the website.
By "significant anniversaries", I mean dates that are not, for example, the 73rd anniversary of something, but the 50th, 100th, 200th etc.
It should help to flag up interesting events.
Significant anniversaries during September 2016
| Anniversary | Details |
| 1st | Jeremy Corbyn is elected as the new leader of the Labour Party, with Tom Watson as deputy leader. (12th Sep 2015) |
| 1st | MPs reject plans for a right to die in England and Wales in their first vote on the issue in almost twenty years. (11th Sep 2015) |
| 5th | An energy firm which had been test drilling for controversial shale gas in Lancashire said it had found vast gas resources underground. (21st Sep 2011) |
| 5th | The UK's first commercial hydrogen filling station opened in Swindon. (20th Sep 2011) |
| 40th | A fire on the destroyer HMS Glasgow while being fitted out at Swan Hunter' yard at Wallsend on Tyne kills eight men (23rd Sep 1976) |
| 40th | Peace March in Derry attracts 25,000 people in a call to end violence in Northern Ireland. (4th Sep 1976) |
| 50th | The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President. (30th Sep 1966) |
| 50th | Scotland Yard arrests Ronald "Buster" Edwards, suspected of being involved in the Great Train Robbery. (19th Sep 1966) |
| 50th | Oberon-class submarine HMCS Okanagan launched at Chatham Dockyard, the last warship to be built there. (17th Sep 1966) |
| 50th | Britain's first Polaris submarine, HMS Resolution, launched at Barrow-in-Furness, (15th Sep 1966) |
| 50th | The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. (8th Sep 1966) |
| 50th | Selective Employment Tax imposed. (5th Sep 1966) |
| 60th | TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated. (25th Sep 1956) |
| 60th | Manchester United become the first English team to compete in the European Cup. (12th Sep 1956) |
| 60th | Guy Mollet visits London and proposes a merger of France and the United Kingdom. However, the idea is rejected by Anthony Eden. (10th Sep 1956) |
| 70th | BBC Third Programme begins broadcasting. (29th Sep 1946) |
| 70th | The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich. (19th Sep 1946) |
| 70th | Popular quiz show Have a Go! with Wilfred Pickles first broadcast nationally on BBC Radio. (16th Sep 1946) |
| 70th | Mass squat by homeless families of empty properties in London organised by the Communist Party. (8th Sep 1946) |
| 70th | Opening of the Britain Can Make It exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, promoted by the Council of Industrial Design and the Board of Trade to show off good domestic and industrial design. (1st Sep 1946) |
| 80th | Official opening of Pinewood Studios. (30th Sep 1936) |
| 80th | Arson attack on a school building at Penyberth on the Llyn Peninsula as part of the Tan yn Llyn campaign. (8th Sep 1936) |
| 100th | World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme. (15th Sep 1916) |
| 100th | William Leefe-Robinson becomes the first pilot to shoot down a German airship over Britain. (2nd Sep 1916) |
| 150th | The Great Tea Race of 1866 ends in London, narrowly won by the clipper ship Taeping. (6th Sep 1866) |
| 175th | The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom. (24th Sep 1841) |
| 250th | Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, marries the illegitimately-born Maria Walpole, Dowager Countess of Waldegrave at her home in Pall Mall, London, an event kept secret from his brother the King until after passage of the Royal Marriages Act 1772. (6th Sep 1766) |
| 250th | "Bread and butter riots": civil unrest across England following a poor harvest. (1st Sep 1766) |
| 300th | The original Portland Bill Lighthouse is first illuminated. (29th Sep 1716) |
| 350th | A large fire breaks out in the City of London in the house of a baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. The fire destroys more than 13,000 buildings including Old St Paul's Cathedral. (4th Sep 1666) |
| 950th | William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England. (27th Sep 1066) |
| 950th | The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England. (24th Sep 1066) |
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