- Sep 3 Cotton pickers organize union & stage strike in Texas
- Sep 3 John Stephens Durham named US minister to Haiti
- Sep 7 Captain Frederick Lugard's army reaches Kavalli, Equatoria
- Sep 11 The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch.
- Sep 14 "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M
- Sep 18 Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief
- Sep 20 The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.