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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