Here we present a selection of Anniversaries of church and world events that you may like to reflect on over Autumn, and perhaps to research an item of particular interest.
September
1st
710
Giles of Provence
4th
476
Fall of Rome
16th
1683
Battle of Vienna, Ottoman advance halted
22nd
Autumnal equinox – astronomical Autumn begins
28th
1954
Restoration and renovation of St Michael’s completed (plaque at the South Door)
29th
Michaelmas
30th
1994
Official opening of our Visitor Centre and Tower
October
8th
1953
Major fire at St Michael’s (plaque at the South Door)
12th
1492
Columbus lands in the Bahamas
14th
1066
Battle of Hastings
16th
1555
Martyrdom of Bishops Latimer and Ridley
25th
1415
Battle of Agincourt
26th
899
Death of King Alfred
31st
1517
Luther nailed his 95 theses to the castle church door at Wittenberg
November
1st
All Saints
2nd
All Souls
2nd
1917
Balfour Declaration
9th
1989
Fall of the Berlin Wall
11th
1918
Armistice Day
19th
680
Hilda, Abbess of Whitby
19th
1863
Gettysburg Address: ‘of the people, by the people, for the people’
22nd
1963
President Kennedy assassinated
25th
Thanksgiving USA
25th
St Catherine (we have a statue to her in the SE corner of the Church)
30th
Andrew, the Apostle
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