Anniversaries for Autumn

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