Historical Events
- Sep 12 Moreton Bay Penal Settlement established at Redcliffe, Queensland, with about 30 convicts (modern Brisbane, Australia) [1]
- Sep 26 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Isaac Hardin Duval, American businessman and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Wellsburg, West Virginia (d. 1902)
Anton Bruckner
Sep 4 Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), Wagner disciple and "monumental bore", born in Ansfelden, Austria (d. 1896)
Anton Bruckner
- Sep 4 Phoebe Cary, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1871)
- Sep 8 Jaime Nunó, Spanish composer (Mexican national anthem), born in Sant Joan de les Abadesses, Catalonia (d. 1908)
- Sep 19 Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, Austrian zither player and composer, born in Baden, Austria (d. 1902)
- Sep 21 Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, American Baptist Minister and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Webster, Pennsylvania (d. 1901)
- Sep 24 Truman Seymour, American artist and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Burlington, Vermont (d. 1891)
- Sep 27 William "Bull" Nelson, American Major General (Union Army), born in Maysville, Kentucky (d. 1862)
- Sep 28 Alfred Gilpin Jones, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1900-06), born in Weymouth, NOva Scotia, Canada (d. 1906)
- Sep 28 Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet (Golden Treasury), born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England (d. 1897)
- Sep 30 Peter Milne, Scottish composer and violinist, born in Kincardine O'Neil (d. 1908)
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
Sep 2 US Navy flag officer David Farragut (23) weds Susan Caroline Marchant
David Farragut
Famous Deaths
- Sep 12 Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer, dies at 62
Louis XVIII
Sep 16 Louis XVIII SX, earl of Province/king of France (1814-24), dies
Louis XVIII
- Sep 17 Giacomo Tritto, Italian composer, dies at 91