Historical Events In September - 30
Monday, 02 February 2026
0420 Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible 

0653 Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury 

0739 P'u-chi Ho-shang Tao-chao, Northern Ch'an Line Zen teacher, dies. 

1101 Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan. 

1199 Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew 

1351 Muso Soseki, Zen teacher/Rinzai line/head of Nanzenji, dies in Japan 

1399 King Richard II of England abdicates throne 

1440 Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician. 

1452 inaugural book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible 

1452 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible. 

1520 Suleiman I succeeds his father Selam I as sultan of Turkey. 

1544 King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France 

1555 Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic 

1572 Francisco Borgia, theologist/saint, dies at 61 

1612 Ercole Bottrigari, composer, dies at 81. 

1619 Remonstrant Society forms in Antwerp. 

1622 Johann Sebastiani, composer 

1626 Battle between king Bethlen Gabor and earl Mansfeld-Wallenstein ends 

1627 Robinson Crusoe, fictional character according to Daniel Defoe 

1630 inaugural execution in America-J Billington hanged in Plymouth, MA. 

1630 John Billington, murderer, 1st American execution, hanged. 

1649 Last Swedish troops vacate Prague 

1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during Creligious services. 

1659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe) 

1681 Netherlands and Sweden sign treaty 

1685 Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus, composer. 

1712 Johann Michael Zacher, composer, dies at 61. 

1716 Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer, dies at 62 

1730 Duke Victor Amadeus XI of Savoye steps down 

1743 Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, composer 

1744 France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo 

1752 Justin Heinrich Knecht, composer. 

1755 Francesco Durante, composer, dies at 71 

1770 Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat. 

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