As September is the month of Heritage Open Days, we thought we’d take a look at some of the other important moments that took place through out history during the month of September.
2nd September 1666
The Great Fire of London starts and then rages for five days.
3rd September 1939
Britain and France declare war on Germany kicking off their involvement in World War II
4th September 1962
The Beatles have their first recording session at Abbey Road.
6th September 1620
The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth taking the first settlers to America.
8th September 1944
The first V2 flying bombs kill 3 people in Londo
11th September 1915
Britain’s first Women’s Institute opens in Wales
12th September 1908
Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier
13th September 1902
Harry Jackson becomes the first person to be convicted on fingerprint evidence in Britain.
14th September 1752
The first day of the Gregorian calendar in Britain
16th September 1400
Owain Glyndwr proclaimed Prince of Wales
19th September 1356
The Black Prince, eldest son of Edward III, leads the English to victory over the French at the Battle of Poitiers.
20th September 1258
Salisbury Cathedral is consecrated
22nd September 1735
Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, moves into 10 Downing Street.
24th September 1776
The first St Leger horserace is run at Doncaster, Yorkshire
25th September 1818
Guy’s Hospital in London perform the first human blood transfusion
26th September 1580
Sir Francis Drake returns to Plymouth harbour having sailed around the world in the Golden Hind.
27th September 1888
The first use of Jack the Ripper is recorded after an anonymous letter is sent to the central news agency.
28th September 1745
God Save the King is sung for the first time at London’s Drury Lane Theatre
Births
5th September 1946
Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen
7th September 1533
Queen Elizabeth I
8th September 1157
King Richard I
12th September 1852
Herbert Henry Asquith, former Prime Minster who introduced the State Pension.
15th September 1890
Agatha Christie, crime writer
16th September 1387
King Henry V
17th September 1929
Sir Stirling Moss, Grand Prix racing driver
18th September 1709
Samuel Jackson, compiler of the first English dictionary
19th September 1839
George Cadbury, chocolate manufacturer and social reformer
22nd September
Michael Faraday, chemist and physicist
26th September 1888
T S Eliot, poet and critic
29th September 1758
Horatio Nelson, naval commander
Deaths
1st September 1159
Pope Adrian IV, the only English Pope, aka Nicholas Breakspeare
9th September 1513
James IV of Scotland killed at the Battle of Flodden
15th September 1830
MP William Huskisson, Britain’s first rail fatality at the opening of the Liverpool-Manchester railway
17th September 1701
King James II
21st September 1327
King Edward II
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