Events in History
- Sep 2 A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switzerland, kills 500
Event of Interest
Sep 23 Lewis and Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest
William Clark
Meriwether Lewis
Birthdays in History
- Sep 5 Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general, born in Nantes, France (d. 1865)
- Sep 11 Joshua Blackwood Howell, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Woodbury, New Jersey (d. 1864)
- Sep 12 Andrew Hull Foote, American Rear Admiral (Union Navy), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1863)
- Sep 13 Joseph L. Hogg, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Morgan County, Georgia (d. 1862)
Deaths in History
- Sep 8 Patrick Cotter O'Brien, Irish showman, first known eight-foot-tall person (stood 8ft 1 inch), dies at 46
- Sep 9 William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
- Sep 10 Johann C Adelung, German translator/librarian, dies at 74
- Sep 13 Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)
- Sep 20 Utamaro Kitagawa, painter, dies