Historical Events
- Sep 17 Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees
Historic Event
Sep 30 Duke of Savoy Victor Amadeus II abdicates his throne amid scandal after marrying his mistress Anna Canalis di Cumiana
Famous Birthdays
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Sep 17 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian-American military officer (major general of the Continental Army), born in Magdeburg (d. 1794)
Famous Weddings
Benjamin Franklin
Sep 1 US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin establishes a common-law marriage with Deborah Read
Famous Deaths
- Sep 27 Laurence Eusden, English poet, Poet Laureate (1718-30), dies at 42