WHAT HAPPENED ON 1. OCTOBER
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Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. (1. October 331. BC)

Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England. (1. October 959)

Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre. (1. October 1189)

Coronation of Queen Mary I of England. (1. October 1553)

Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn. (1. October 1787)

First session of the French Legislative Assembly. (1. October 1791)

Belgium is conquered by France. (1. October 1795)

Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso. (1. October 1800)

The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana. (1. October 1811)

Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring. (1. October 1814)

Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia. (1. October 1827)

South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; it will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools. (1. October 1829)

Texian political delegates convened at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas. (1. October 1832)

The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London. (1. October 1843)

German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske. (1. October 1847)

The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing. (1. October 1854)

John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band. (1. October 1880)

First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison. (1. October 1880)

Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire. (1. October 1887)

Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress. (1. October 1890)