What is October 1?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[331 BC]] &ndash; [[Alexander the Great]] defeats [[Darius III of Persia]] in the [[Battle of Gaugamela]]. * [[959]] &ndash; [[Edgar the Peaceable]] becomes [[King]] of all [[England]]. * [[1553]] &ndash; Coronation of Queen [[Mary I of England]]. * [[1787]] &ndash; [[Russia]]ns under [[Alexander Suvorov]] defeat the [[Turkey|Turks]] at Kinburn. * [[1791]] &ndash; First session of the French [[Legislative Assembly]]. * [[1795]] &ndash; [[Belgium]] is conquered by [[France]]. * [[1800]] &ndash; [[Spain]] cedes [[Louisiana]] to [[France]]. * [[1811]] &ndash; The first steamboat to sail the [[Mississippi River]] arrives in [[New Orleans]]. * [[1814]] &ndash; Opening of the [[Congress]] of [[Vienna]], intended to re–draw [[Europe]]'s political [[map]] after the defeat of [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] the previous [[Spring (season)|spring]]. * [[1827]] &ndash; [[Russo-Persian War]]: The [[Russia]]n [[Army]] under [[Ivan Paskevich]] storms [[Yerevan]], ending a [[millennium]] of [[Islam|Muslim]] domination in [[Armenia]]. * [[1829]] &ndash; The [[South African College]] is founded in [[Cape Town]]. It will later split into the [[University of Cape Town]] and the [[South African Colleges]]. * [[1843]] &ndash; British [[tabloid]] [[newspaper]], the [[News of the World]], begins publication. It ends publication in [[2011]] due to a major scandal. * [[1847]] &ndash; German inventor and industrialist [[Werner von Siemens]] founds the [[Siemens AG]] and Halske. * [[1869]] &ndash; The world's first [[postcard]]s are issued in [[Austria]]. * [[1880]] &ndash; [[John Philip Sousa]] becomes leader of the US Marine Band. * [[1880]] &ndash; The first electric [[lamp]] [[factory]] is opened by [[Thomas Edison]]. * [[1884]] &ndash; [[Denmark]]'s [[Politiken]] [[newspaper]] is founded. * [[1887]] &ndash; [[Balochistan (Pakistan)|Balochistan]], in present–day [[Pakistan]], is conquered by the [[British Empire]]. * [[1889]] &ndash; The [[Japan]]ese city of [[Nagoya]] is founded. * [[189