462 – Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
717 – Siege of Constantinople: The Muslim armada with 1,800 ships, is defeated by the Byzantine navy through the use of Greek fire.
1270 – King Stephen V of Hungary writes his walk to the antiquum castellum near Miholjanec, where the Sword of Attila was recently discovered.
1355 – King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the Old town of Visoki.
1449 – Tumu Crisis – Mongols capture the Emperor of China.
1529 – The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
1604 – Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib.
1644 – Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
1772 – The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow.
1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
1774 – Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
1804 – Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1807: Former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr is acquitted of plotting to annex parts of Louisiana and Spanish territory in Mexico to be used toward the establishment of an independent republic.
1831 – The high honor of Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic.
1836: Narcissa Whitman arrives in Walla Walla, Washington, becoming one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains.
1862: American Civil War: Following his brilliant victory at the Second Battle of Bull Run two days earlier, Confederate General Robert E. Lee strikes retreating Union forces at Chantilly, Virginia, and drives them away in the middle of an intense thunderstorm.
1864: American Civil War: Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman lays siege to Atlanta, Georgia, a critical Confederate hub, shelling civilians and cutting off supply lines. Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta, destroying the city's munitions as they went.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
1880 – The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
1894 – The Great Hinckley Fire, a massive series of forest fires, devastates the area in and around Hinckley, MN, destroying six towns and leaving nearly 420 people dead.
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1897 – The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens. It is the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1902 – A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
1906 – The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
1910 – In Brazil, Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, the first Fifa World Club Championship, is founded.
1911 – The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
1914 – St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1920 – The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
1923 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
1928 – Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
1931: The first water was delivered to Boulder City from the Colorado River.
1934 – SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
1939: At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. On September 3, they declared war on Germany, initiating World War II.
1939 – General George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
1939 – The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date.
1939 – Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
1952 – The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
1961 – The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
1967 – The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia.
1969 – A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
1969 – Trần Thiện Khiêm becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.
1970 – Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attack his motorcade.
1972 – In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).
1979: NASA's Pioneer 11 came within 13,000 miles (21,000 kilometers) of Saturn, making it the first spacecraft ever to sweep closely past that place.
1980 – Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends near Thunder Bay, Ontario.
1980 – Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes President of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
1981 – A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1991 – Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1997 – The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, is announced by Buckingham Palace.
2004 – The Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Raymond the Unborne, Confessor. Double.
Commemoration of St. Giles, Abbot, and of the Twelve Holy Brethren, Martyrs.
Commemoration of St. Giles, Abbot, and of the Twelve Holy Brethren, Martyrs.
Contemporary Western
Giles
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Start of the Indiction, beginning the Liturgical Year
Protection of the Environment Day (Eastern Orthodox Earth Day) (1989)
Righteous Joshua, the son of Nun (c. 16th century BC)[11][12][note 5]
Martyrs Callista and her brothers Evodos and Hermogenes at Nicomedia (309)[14][15]
Holy 40 virgin-martyrs and their teacher the Hieromartyr Ammon the Deacon at Heraclea in Thrace (321-323):
Laurencia the deaconess; Celsina; Theoclia; Theoctista; Dorothy; Eutychia;
Thecla; Aristaineta; Philadelphia; Mary; Veronica; Euthymia; Lamprotatia;
Euphymia; Theodora; Theodota; Teteia; Aquilina; Theodulia; Aplodora;
Lampadia; Procopia; Paula; Junilla; Ampliana; Percissa; Polynicia; Maura;
Gregoria; Cyria; Bassa; Callinica; Barbara; Cyriacia; Agathonica; Justa;
Irene; Timothea; Tatiana; and Anna.
Martyr Aeithalas the Deacon of Persia (380)
Venerable Martha, the mother of St Simeon Stylites (428)
Saint Simeon Stylites the Elder (459)
Venerable Evanthia
Saint Symeon Stylites of Lesbos (c. 845)
Hieromartyr Priscus of Capua, first Bishop of Capua in Italy, where he was sent
by the Apostle Peter, and martyred under Nero by tradition (c. 66)
Hieromartyr Terentian, Bishop of Todi in Umbria in Italy, under Hadrian (118)
Virgin-martyr Vibiana, in Rome, whose relics are now venerated in Los Angeles,
of which she is the main patron-saint (3rd century)
Saint Sixtus of Reims, first Bishop of Rheims in France (c. 300)
Hieromartyr Firminus of Amiens, third Bishop of Amiens in France (c. 303)
The 12 Holy Brothers, Martyrs, who suffered in the south of Italy and were brought
together and enshrined at Benevento in 760 (c. 303):
Donatus, Felix, Arontius, Honoratus, Fortunatus, Sabinian, Septimius,
Januarius, another Felix, Vitalis, Sator, and Repositus.
Saint Verena of Zurzach (Switzerland) (c. 350)
Saint Victorius (Victurius), a disciple of St. Martin of Tours who became Bishop
of Le Mans in France in c. 453 (c. 490)
Saint Constantius of Aquino, Bishop of Aquino in Italy (c. 520)
Saint Regulus (San Regolo), exiled from North Africa by the Arian Vandals,
he landed in Tuscany in Italy and was martyred under Totila (545)
Saint Lupus of Sens, a monk at Lérins who became Bishop of Sens in France in 609 (623)
Saint Nivard of Rheims, Archbishop of Rheims in France (673)
Saint Giles (Aegidius), monastic founder along the Rhone (c. 712)
Saint Lythan (Llythaothaw), a saint in Wales to whom two churches are dedicated.
Saints Giles (Aegidius) and Arcanus, founded a monastery that later grew into
Borgo San Sepulcro in central Italy (1050)
Saint Meletius the Younger, of Thebes (1105)
Venerable Nicholas of Courtaliatis in Crete, monk (1670)
New-Martyr Angelis of Constantinople (1680)
Venerable Anthony of Agyia
Saint Haido of Stanos (1820-1821)
Virgin-martyrs Tatiana Gribkov and Natalia Kozlov (1937)
Commemoration of the Great Fire of Constantinople (c. 470)
Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos of Miasena Monastery,
in memory of the finding of her icon (864)
Celebration of the first miracle of the Icon of the Theotokos (Eletskaya)
at Chernigov-Gethsemane (Chernihiv-Hefsemanska) (1869)
Celebration of the "All-Blessed" or "Pamakarista" Icon (11th century)
of Our Lady of Kazan (1905)
Start of the Indiction, beginning the Liturgical Year
Protection of the Environment Day (Eastern Orthodox Earth Day) (1989)
Righteous Joshua, the son of Nun (c. 16th century BC)[11][12][note 5]
Martyrs Callista and her brothers Evodos and Hermogenes at Nicomedia (309)[14][15]
Holy 40 virgin-martyrs and their teacher the Hieromartyr Ammon the Deacon at Heraclea in Thrace (321-323):
Laurencia the deaconess; Celsina; Theoclia; Theoctista; Dorothy; Eutychia;
Thecla; Aristaineta; Philadelphia; Mary; Veronica; Euthymia; Lamprotatia;
Euphymia; Theodora; Theodota; Teteia; Aquilina; Theodulia; Aplodora;
Lampadia; Procopia; Paula; Junilla; Ampliana; Percissa; Polynicia; Maura;
Gregoria; Cyria; Bassa; Callinica; Barbara; Cyriacia; Agathonica; Justa;
Irene; Timothea; Tatiana; and Anna.
Martyr Aeithalas the Deacon of Persia (380)
Venerable Martha, the mother of St Simeon Stylites (428)
Saint Simeon Stylites the Elder (459)
Venerable Evanthia
Saint Symeon Stylites of Lesbos (c. 845)
Hieromartyr Priscus of Capua, first Bishop of Capua in Italy, where he was sent
by the Apostle Peter, and martyred under Nero by tradition (c. 66)
Hieromartyr Terentian, Bishop of Todi in Umbria in Italy, under Hadrian (118)
Virgin-martyr Vibiana, in Rome, whose relics are now venerated in Los Angeles,
of which she is the main patron-saint (3rd century)
Saint Sixtus of Reims, first Bishop of Rheims in France (c. 300)
Hieromartyr Firminus of Amiens, third Bishop of Amiens in France (c. 303)
The 12 Holy Brothers, Martyrs, who suffered in the south of Italy and were brought
together and enshrined at Benevento in 760 (c. 303):
Donatus, Felix, Arontius, Honoratus, Fortunatus, Sabinian, Septimius,
Januarius, another Felix, Vitalis, Sator, and Repositus.
Saint Verena of Zurzach (Switzerland) (c. 350)
Saint Victorius (Victurius), a disciple of St. Martin of Tours who became Bishop
of Le Mans in France in c. 453 (c. 490)
Saint Constantius of Aquino, Bishop of Aquino in Italy (c. 520)
Saint Regulus (San Regolo), exiled from North Africa by the Arian Vandals,
he landed in Tuscany in Italy and was martyred under Totila (545)
Saint Lupus of Sens, a monk at Lérins who became Bishop of Sens in France in 609 (623)
Saint Nivard of Rheims, Archbishop of Rheims in France (673)
Saint Giles (Aegidius), monastic founder along the Rhone (c. 712)
Saint Lythan (Llythaothaw), a saint in Wales to whom two churches are dedicated.
Saints Giles (Aegidius) and Arcanus, founded a monastery that later grew into
Borgo San Sepulcro in central Italy (1050)
Saint Meletius the Younger, of Thebes (1105)
Venerable Nicholas of Courtaliatis in Crete, monk (1670)
New-Martyr Angelis of Constantinople (1680)
Venerable Anthony of Agyia
Saint Haido of Stanos (1820-1821)
Virgin-martyrs Tatiana Gribkov and Natalia Kozlov (1937)
Commemoration of the Great Fire of Constantinople (c. 470)
Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos of Miasena Monastery,
in memory of the finding of her icon (864)
Celebration of the first miracle of the Icon of the Theotokos (Eletskaya)
at Chernigov-Gethsemane (Chernihiv-Hefsemanska) (1869)
Celebration of the "All-Blessed" or "Pamakarista" Icon (11th century)
of Our Lady of Kazan (1905)
Coptic Orthodox
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