** Ethiopian eunuch ( 8: 26 – 39 )

** Timkat, or 20 during Leap Year ( Ethiopian Orthodox )

** Ethiopian Civil War ( 1976 – 1991 )

** War in Somalia ( 2006 – 2009 ) – involved largely Ethiopian and Somali Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ) forces whom fought against the Somali Islamist umbrella group, the Islamic Court Union ( ICU ), and other affiliated militias for control of the country.

** Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker

** Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.

** Gete Wami, Ethiopian long-distance runner

** Eritrean War of Independence – Battle of Afabet: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on 3 sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front ( EPLF ).

** Derartu Tulu, Ethiopian long-distance runner

** Mulugeta Yeggazu, Ethiopian government official and military leader

** Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.

** In Ethiopia, the Eritrean Liberation Front kills an Ethiopian general.

** Somalia mobilizes its troops, due to an apparent Ethiopian attack.

** Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian long-distance runner ( d. 1973 )

** Marye of Yejju, Ethiopian Ras

** Sabagadis, Ethiopian warlord

** Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands ( Ethiopia )

** Genfo is a thick porridge made by lightly roasting, milling and cooking any combination of Ethiopian oats wheat, barley, sorghum, millet, maize, chickpeas, yellow peas, soybeans or bulla, the starch from the root of the false banana tree ; it is traditionally eaten for breakfast with a dollop of clarified, spiced butter ( kibe ) or oil and chili-spice mix berbere, or with yoghurt.

** Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia was an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian, and did not consider himself divine, but the Rastafari movement in Jamaica saw him as the second coming of Christ.

** Mengistu Lemma, Ethiopian playwright ( died 1988 )

** Nega Mezlekia, Ethiopian writer

** AT1007 Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands

** AT1008 Ethiopian montane moorlands

** 1543 – Battle of Wayna Daga – A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeated a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.

** April 6 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** April 15 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** April 30 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** August 22 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** August 6 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** Herman of Alaska ( Russian Orthodox Church and related congregations )

** August 9 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** August 13 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** Basil Fool for Christ ( Russian Orthodox Church )

** August 2 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** April 1 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** August 1 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** August 3 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** April 26 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** August 8 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** April 16 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** April 29 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** August 14 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** August 15 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** August 16 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** August 17 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** August 12 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** August 18 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** August 19 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** Abraham of Smolensk ( Eastern Orthodox Church )