On this day: 1 October
Events, births and deaths on 1 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Jane Goodall
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1924 · Births · Jimmy Carter
- 1935 · Births · Julie Andrews
- 1922 · Births · Chen-ning Yang
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 959 · Deaths · Eadwig
- 1040 · Deaths · Alan III, Duke of Brittany
- 1126 · Deaths · Morphia of Melitene
Events · 53
- 331 BCE(Julian date)Battle of Gaugamela — decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
- 1553(Julian date)Coronation of Mary I of England — 1553 coronation of Mary I of England
- 1777First Treaty of San Ildefonso — 1777 treaty between Spain and Portugal
- 1779Tampere — city in the region of Pirkanmaa in Finland
- 1787(Julian date)Battle of Kinburn — 1787 battle of the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792
- 1791Legislative Assembly — former legislature of France
- 1800Treaty of San Ildefonso — treaty between France and Spain involving the colonial territory of Louisiana
- 1829University of Cape Town — public university in Cape Town, South Africa
- 1843News of the World — British tabloid newspaper
- 1890Yosemite National Park — national park in California, United States
- 19031903 World Series — baseball championship series, officially the 1st rendition of Major League Baseball's annual finale
- 1910Los Angeles Times bombing — purposeful dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building in Los Angeles, US, on 1 Oct. 1910, by a union member belonging to the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
- 19231923 Imperial Conference — The first meeting of the Irish Free State
- 1940Pennsylvania Turnpike — mainline tolled highway in Pennsylvania running from Ohio to New Jersey
- 1946Mensa International — high IQ society
- 1949People's Republic of China — country in East Asia
- 1949proclamation of the People's Republic of China — official founding of the PRC
- 1953Andhra State — former state in India
- 1955Xinjiang — autonomous region in China
- 1961CTV Television Network — Canadian television network
- 1961Defense Intelligence Agency — military intelligence agency of the United States federal government
- 1963Nigeria — sovereign state in West Africa
- 1964Shinkansen — Japanese high-speed rail system
- 196530 September Movement — 1965 Indonesian military faction that attempted a coup
- 1966West Coast Airlines Flight 956 — aviation accident on October 1, 1966 near Wemme, Oregon
- 1971Walt Disney World Resort — resort and entertainment complex in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States
- 1975Thrilla in Manila — boxing match
- 1978Tuvalu — country in Oceania
- 1979MTR — rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong
- 1982Epcot — Walt Disney World Resort's second theme park, with attractions based on international culture and human achievement
- 1985Operation Wooden Leg — 1985 Israeli military operation in Tunisia
- 19871987 Whittier Narrows earthquake — October 1987 earthquake in California, US
- 1990Rwandan Civil War — 1990–1994 conflict in Rwanda
- 1991Siege of Dubrovnik — 1991 JNA/Serb led siege
- 1994Palau — island sovereign state in Oceania
- 1998Europol — law enforcement agency of the European Union
- 20012001 Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly attack — Terrorist Attack
- 2003
- 2006League of Social Democrats — political party in China
- 2009Supreme Court of the United Kingdom — highest court of appeal in most of the United Kingdom
- 20122012 Lamma Island ferry collision — collision involving two vessels
- 20142014 Gorni Lom explosions — Ammunition plant explosions
- 2015Umpqua Community College shooting — American mass shooting event in 2015
- 20152015 El Cambray Dos landslide — 2015 natural disaster in Santa Catarina Pinula, Guatemala
- 2017Catalan independence referendum, 2017 — independence referendum in Catalonia, 1 October 2017
- 20172017 Las Vegas shooting — mass shooting in the Las Vegas area of Nevada, USA on October 1, 2017
- 2018CCTV-4K — Television Channel in China
- 2018Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean — international law case by Bolivia against Chile
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021Expo 2020 — World Expo in the United Arab Emirates
- 2022Kanjuruhan Stadium disaster — stadium disaster in Indonesia
- 20242024 Lebanon War — military conflict between Lebanese organisation Hezbollah and the IDF
Births · 60
- 86 BCE(Julian date)Sallust — Roman historian and politician (86 BC - c. 35 BC)
- 208(Julian date)Severus Alexander — Roman Emperor (208-235)
- 1207(Julian date)Henry III of England — King of England from 1216 to 1272
- 1480(Julian date)Saint Cajetan — (1480–1547) Founder of the Theatines
- 1507(Julian date)Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola — Italian architect (1507–1573)
- 1542(Julian date)Mariam-uz-Zamani Sahi Begum — Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire Empress mother of the Mughal Empire (1543-1623)
- 1542(Julian date)Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira — Spanish explorer
- 1685Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor — 18th century Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor
- 1754Paul I of Russia — The ninth Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801 (1754-1801)
- 1760William Beckford — English slaver, art collector, and novelist (1760–1844)
- 1791Sergey Aksakov — Russian writer
- 1832Caroline Harrison — First Lady of the United States from 1889 to 1892
- 1847Annie Besant — British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator (1847-1933)
- 1865Paul Dukas — French composer (1865–1935)
- 1881William Boeing — American aviation pioneer
- 1893Ip Man — Hong Kong martial artist (1893–1972)
- 1895Liaquat Ali Khan — 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1947 to 1951
- 1903Vladimir Horowitz — Russian/Ukrainian and American pianist (1903-1989)
- 1904Otto Robert Frisch — Austrian-born British nuclear physicist
- 1915Jerome Bruner — American psychologist and scholar
- 1920Walter Matthau — American actor, comedian and director (1920–2000)
- 1921James Whitmore — American actor (1921–2009)
- 1922Chen-ning Yang — Chinese physicist (1922–2025)
- 1924Jimmy Carter — president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
- 1924William Rehnquist — chief justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005 (1924–2005)
Deaths · 60
- 686(Julian date)Tenmu — Emperor of Japan
- 959Eadwig — King of the English (r. 955–959)
- 1040Alan III, Duke of Brittany — Duke of Brittany
- 1126(Julian date)Morphia of Melitene — Armenian noblewoman, queen consort of Jerusalem
- 1310(Julian date)Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon — Lady suo jure of Bourbon (1257-1310)
- 1404(Julian date)Boniface IX — pope of the Catholic Church from 1389 to 1404
- 1450(Julian date)Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara — Italian nobleman and Marquis of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio (1407–1450)
- 1499(Julian date)Marsilio Ficino — Italian philosopher and Catholic priest (1433–1499)
- 1532(Julian date)Jan Gossaert — Flemish painter (1478–1532)
- 1567(Julian date)Pietro Carnesecchi — Italian humanist (1509-1567)
- 1570Frans Floris (I) — Flemish painter (1519–1570)
- 1574(Julian date)Maarten van Heemskerck — Dutch painter (1498–1574)
- 1578(Julian date)John of Austria — Spanish military leader (1547–1578)
- 1684Pierre Corneille — French tragedian (1606–1684)
- 1708John Blow — English composer
- 1768Robert Simson — British mathematician; (1687-1768)
- 1788William Brodie — British cabinet-maker and thief (1741-1788)
- 1878Mindon Min — King of Burma (1808–1878)
- 1901Abdur Rahman Khan — Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901
- 1929
- 1942Ants Piip — Estonian politician, diplomat and legal scholar (1884–1942)
- 1952John Langenus — Belgian football referee (1891-1952)
- 1953John Marin — American artist (1870-1953)
- 1957Abdülhalik Renda — Turkish statesperson (1881–1957)
- 1958Robert Falk — Russian artist (1886-1958)
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