Sept 2, 1875 Montreal Quebec - Catholic mob prevents the burial in consecrated ground of the printer Joseph Guibord 1804-1869, a member of l'Institut canadien de Montréal; with the approval of Rome, Bishop Ignace Bourget had forbidden Catholics from becoming members of the Institute on pain of excommunication; Guibord refused, and on his death, was not given the last rites. In 1874, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London ordered his burial in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery. On Nov 16, a military escort will finally escort his body for burial, in an area of the cemetery that Mgr. Bourget will immediately deconsecrate. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sept 2, 1797 Quebec Quebec - Catholic bishops required to swear an oath of allegiance to the British Crown. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sept 2, 1792 Paris France - Canadian Priest André Grasset sent to the guillotine in the Reign of Terror for refusing to agree to a Church reorganization planned by leaders of the French Revolution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sept 2, 1752 Canada - Last day of the Julian calendar in Britain and the Colonies; the Gregorian Calendar designed to correct the extra leap year day problem goes into effect the next day, with tomorrow being September 14, hence 11 days are dropped from the year. Most other countries made the adjustment in 1582. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sept 2, 1666 - This was the first day of the Great Fire of London. More than 13,000 houses burned and six people died in a three-day fire that started in a wooden house on Pudding Lane near the Tower of London. The house belonged to a baker named Farryner. It was this fire that prompted the first fire insurance policy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------