Christian feast day: Aurea of Paris

Name: Christian feast day: Aurea of Paris
Start: 2000-10-04
End: 2000-10-04
Location: Histories Today Editorial Team

On October 4, in the year 0, Christian feast day: Aurea of Paris. This event is recorded as a Holidays event in the history of October 4, one of 409 recorded events on this date across all of history.

Aurea of Paris, venerated as Saint Aurea of Paris, was an abbess of Saint Martial in Paris in the seventh century. Dagobert I and Clovis II ruled at the time. Her feast day before the Great East-West Schism of 1054 was universally 4 October, and remains so in the Orthodox Church. The Catholic celebration of her feast was transferred to 5 October following their veneration of St Francis of Assisi.

Key Facts

This event took place on October 4, 0 (AD era).
It is categorised as a Holidays event in recorded history.
Referenced in 1 Wikipedia article.
Wikipedia source last updated on 3 October 2026.

On This Date in History 409

Type	Year	Date	Event
Notable Deaths	2024	Oct 4	Christopher Ciccone, American artist (born 1960)
Notable Deaths	2024	Oct 4	Billy Shaw, American football player (born 1938)
Notable Deaths	2022	Oct 4	Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter and musician (born 1932)
Notable Deaths	2020	Oct 4	Clark Middleton, American actor (born 1957)
Notable Deaths	2020	Oct 4	Kenzō Takada, Japanese-French fashion designer (born 1939)
Historical Events	2017	Oct 4	Joint Nigerien-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.
Notable Deaths	2015	Oct 4	Dave Pike, American vibraphone player and songwriter (born 1938)
Notable Deaths	2015	Oct 4	Edida Nageswara Rao, Indian director and producer (born 1934)
Notable Deaths	2015	Oct 4	Neal Walk, American basketball player (born 1948)
Notable Deaths	2014	Oct 4	Konrad Boehmer, German-Dutch composer and educator (born 1941)
Notable Deaths	2014	Oct 4	Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937)
Notable Deaths	2014	Oct 4	Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (born 1959)
Notable Deaths	2014	Oct 4	Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (born 1951)
Notable Deaths	2013	Oct 4	John Cloudsley-Thompson, Pakistani-English commander (born 1921)
Notable Deaths	2013	Oct 4	Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (born 1917)
Notable Deaths	2013	Oct 4	Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer (born 1933)
Notable Deaths	2013	Oct 4	Diana Nasution, Indonesian singer (born 1958)
Notable Deaths	2013	Oct 4	Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (born 1911)
Notable Deaths	2013	Oct 4	Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1917)
Notable Deaths	2012	Oct 4	David Atkinson, Canadian actor and singer (born 1921)
Notable Deaths	2012	Oct 4	Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean historian and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1941)
Notable Deaths	2012	Oct 4	Tom Stannage, Australian footballer, historian, and academic (born 1944)
Notable Deaths	2011	Oct 4	Doris Belack, American actress (born 1926)
Historical Events	2010	Oct 4	The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring…
Notable Deaths	2010	Oct 4	Norman Wisdom, English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter (born 1915)
Notable Deaths	2009	Oct 4	Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (born 1928)
Notable Deaths	2009	Oct 4	Günther Rall, German general and pilot (born 1918)
Notable Deaths	2007	Oct 4	Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general (born 1925)
Historical Events	2006	Oct 4	WikiLeaks is launched.
Notable Deaths	2005	Oct 4	Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (born 1924)
Historical Events	2004	Oct 4	SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
Notable Deaths	2004	Oct 4	Gordon Cooper, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (born 1927)
Historical Events	2003	Oct 4	The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
Notable Deaths	2003	Oct 4	Sid McMath, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (born 1912)
Notable Deaths	2002	Oct 4	André Delvaux, Belgian-Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1926)
Historical Events	2001	Oct 4	Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
Notable Deaths	2001	Oct 4	Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (born 1976)
Notable Deaths	2001	Oct 4	John Collins, American guitarist (born 1913)
Notable Deaths	2001	Oct 4	Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (born 1917)
Notable Deaths	2000	Oct 4	Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 32nd Premier of the Republic of China (born 1914)
Notable Deaths	2000	Oct 4	Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)
Notable Deaths	1999	Oct 4	Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (born 1928)
Notable Deaths	1999	Oct 4	Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer (born 1928)
Notable Deaths	1998	Oct 4	S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian and academic (born 1930)
Historical Events	1997	Oct 4	The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina.
Notable Births	1997	Oct 4	Rishabh Pant, Indian cricketer
Notable Births	1997	Oct 4	Yuju, South Korean singer
Notable Deaths	1997	Oct 4	Otto Ernst Remer, German general (born 1912)
Notable Deaths	1997	Oct 4	Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created the Game Boy (born 1941)
Notable Births	1996	Oct 4	Ella Balinska, English actress