Events in History
- Sep 8 Mission San Gabriel Archangel forms in California
Event of Interest
Sep 26 Denis Diderot's "Le Fils Naturel" premieres in Paris
Denis Diderot
Birthdays in History
- Sep 5 Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1847)
- Sep 11 Mungo Park, Scottish explorer (first westerner to travel the central Niger River in Africa), born in Selkirkshire, Scotland (d. 1806)
- Sep 14 Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1829)
- Sep 17 Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1816)
- Sep 23 Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
Deaths in History
- Sep 17 Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (The Adventures of Roderick Random), dies at 50