Events & Holidays In September - 08

Crowning of Vytautas the Great (Lithuania)

Dia de Asturias (Spain)

Dia de Extremadura (Spain)

Feast of Our Lady of Victories (Malta)

Independence Day (Macedonia)

Internal Autonomy Day (French Polynesia)

International Literacy Day (International)

Mala gospa - Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Western Christian) (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

National Day & Our Lady of Meritxell (Andorra)

Nativity of Our Lady (Liechtenstein)

Nuesta Senora de la Victoria (Spain)

Siege of Leningrad Day (Russia)

Virgen de la Cinta (Spain)

Virgen de la Fuensanta (Spain)

Virgen de la Pena (Spain)

Virgin of Cocharcas (Peru)

Virgin of Guadalupe (Peru)

0801  On this day in history birth of ansgar, German Catholic archbishop (d. 865)   

0828  Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868) was born on this day in history.   

1157  On this day in history birth of richard I, [Richard the Lion Hearted], King of England (1189-99)   

1207  On this day in history birth of sancho II, king of Portugal   

1271  On this day in history birth of charles Martel d'Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (d. 1295)   

1380  On this day in history birth of bernardinus of Siena, Italian saint   

1474  Ludovico Ariosto, Italy, poet (Orlando Furioso) was born on this day in history.   

1515  On this day in history birth of alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (d. 1585)   

0394  Death of Arbogast, French general, commits suicide on this day in history.   

0701  On this day in history sergius I, Syrian/Italian Pope (687-701), dies   

0780  On this day in history leo IV de Chazaar, Byzantine Emperor (775-80), dies   

0876  On this day in history lodewijk de Duitser, king of East French Republic (833-76), dies at 72   

1100  Clement III, [Wibert van Ravenna], 1st anti-pope (1084-1100), dies on this day in history.   

1397  On this day in history death of thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.   

1425  On this day in history death of king Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)   

1539  On this day in history death of john Stokesley, English churchman