On this day in September
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Portal:Religion/On this day/September 1
- 1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 2
- 1649 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 3
- 590 - St. Gregory I becomes Pope.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 4
- 1970 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha receives the "Robe of Faghr" (prophet Muhammad's cloak) and is officially appointed as the 42nd master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi order by his father, Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 5
- 1666 - Great Fire of London ends: A large fire in London burns out after three days. 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral were destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
- 1698 - In an effort to move his people away from archaic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards; All men, except priests and peasants, are required to pay the tax of one hundred rubles a year for those above the lowest class, one kopeck each for commoners.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 6
- 394 - Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
- 1628 - Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 7
- 1191 - Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
- 1539 - Guru Angad Dev ji becomes the second Guru of the Sikh.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 8
- AD 70 - Titus, General of Rome, sacks Jerusalem. See also: Destruction of Jerusalem.
- 1273 - Election of Pope John XXI.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 9
- 701 - Pope Sergius I dies.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 10
- 506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 11
- 1226 - The Roman Catholic practice of perpetual adoration begins.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 12
- 1948 – Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death to limit damage control. It led to genocide of nearly 40,000 Hyderabadi Muslims by the Indian Army and Hindu mobs.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 13
- 509 BC - The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
- 604 - Pope Sabinian is consecrated.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 14
- 1964 - The opening of the third period of the Second Vatican Council.
- 1965 - The opening of the fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 15
- 608 - Saint Boniface IV becomes Pope.
- 921 - Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
- 1514 - Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York.
- 1590 - Giambattista Catagna is elected as Pope Urban VII.
- 1644 - Giambattista Pamphilj becomes Pope Innocent X, succeeding Pope Urban VIII.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 16
- 1087 - Pope Victor III born.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 17
- 1394 - King Charles VI of France orders all Jews expelled from France.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 18
- 1630 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman, dies. (b. 1552)
- 1663 - St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint, dies. (b. 1603)
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 19
- 1811 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader, born. (d. 1881).
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 20
- 1378 - Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 21
- 1827 - According to Joseph Smith, Jr., the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Joseph translated into The Book of Mormon.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 22
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 23
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 24
- 622 - Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
- 1890 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 25
- 303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
- 1396 - Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 26
- 1468 - Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal, dies. (b. 1388)
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 27
- 1540 - The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
- 1590 - Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 28
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 29
- 440 - Leo I becomes pope.
- 855 - Benedict III becomes pope.
Portal:Religion/On this day/September 30
- 1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet, born. (d. 1273)
- 1227 - Pope Nicholas IV, born. (d. 1292)