Occult:This month in history/October
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- 2 October - Jack Parsons, American chemist, occultist, and engineer is born. (1914)
- 3 October - Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day. (2457BC)
- 4 October - The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII. (1582)
- 7 October - The reference date for the origin of the Hebrew calendar. (3761BC)
- 12 October - The Salem Witch Trials are ended. (1692)
- 13 October - Hundreds of the Knights Templar in France are arrested at dawn by King Philip the Fair, and later confess under torture to heresy. (1307)
- 15 October - George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, received a "From Hell" letter allegedly from Jack the Ripper. (1888)
- 17 October - The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I is discovered. (1817)
- 27 October - Emperor Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. (312)
- 27 October - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva. (1553)
- 29 October - First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people. (1390)