What is September 1?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[5509 BC]] &ndash; The world was [[Creation myth|created]], according to the [[Byzantine Empire]]. * [[327]] &ndash; Start of first [[indiction cycle]]. * [[717]] &ndash; [[Siege of Constantinople]]: The [[Islam|Muslim]] armada, with 1,800 [[ship]]s, is defeated by the [[Byzantine Empire]]'s [[Navy]] through the use of Greek fire. * [[1271]] &ndash; [[Pope Gregory X]] is elected. * [[1532]] &ndash; [[Anne Boleyn]] is made [[Marquess]] of [[Pembroke]] by her future husband, King [[Henry VIII of England]]. * [[1598]] &ndash; [[Boris Godunov]] is crowned [[Tsar]] of [[Russia]]. * [[1604]] &ndash; [[Adi Granath]], now known as [[Gupta Granth Sahib]], the holy scripture of [[Sikhism]], is first installed at [[Harmandir Sahib]]. * [[1644]] &ndash; [[Battle of Tippermuir]], [[James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose|Montrose]] defeats [[Earl of Wemyss|Elcho]]'s [[Covenanters]], reviving Royalist cause * [[1715]] &ndash; King [[Louis XIV of France]] dies after a reign of 72 years — longer than any major European monarch. * [[1772]] &ndash; [[Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa]] founded in [[San Luis Obispo, California]]. * [[1804]] &ndash; [[3 Juno|Juno]], one of the largest [[main belt]] [[asteroid]]s, was discovered by [[Germany|German]] [[astronomer]] [[Karl Ludwig Harding]]. * [[1807]] &ndash; Former US Vice President [[Aaron Burr]] is acquitted of [[treason]]. He had been accused of plotting to annex parts of [[Louisiana]] and [[Mexico]] to become part of an independent republic. * [[1818]] &ndash; At [[London]]'s St. Guy's [[Hospital]], [[James Blundell]] carries out the first [[blood]] transfusion on a [[human]]. His patient, however, dies. * [[1836]] &ndash; [[Narcissa Whitman]], one of the first white women to settle west of the [[Rocky Mountains]], arrives at [[Walla Walla, Washington]]. * [[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Chantilly]] – [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] General [[Robert E. Lee]] leads his forces in an attack on