On this day in history
September 25
Graeco-RomanChristianMesopotamian
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on September 25 this year.
- R. Yisrael Hopstein, the Maggid of Kozhnitzd. 1814 CE
Kabbalist and founder of the Kozhnitz Hasidic dynasty
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- 132 CEGraeco-Roman · discovered
At Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemy noted an observation of the autumn equinox, one of the dated measurements underpinning the solar theory of his Almagest.
- 1555 CEChristian
The Imperial Diet at Augsburg settled the coexistence of Lutheran and Catholic territories within the Holy Roman Empire under the principle cuius regio, eius religio.
- 1845 CEMesopotamian · born
Archibald Henry Sayce, who held Oxford's first chair of Assyriology, was born at Shirehampton near Bristol.