On This Day

September 1848 in History

Events in History

  • Sep 6 National Black Convention meets in Cleveland
  • Sep 12 Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
  • Sep 14 Alexander Stewart opens the 1st US department store, “The Marble Palace” in downtown New York City
  • Sep 16 Slavery abolished in all French territories
  • Sep 19 Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) & Lassell (England)
  • Sep 20 The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
  • Sep 29 Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence

Birthdays in History

  • Sep 1 Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
  • Sep 4 Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (carbon filament lightbulbs), born in Chelsea, Massachusetts (d. 1928)
  • Sep 24 Pieter Louis Tak, literary figure (The Chronicle) (d. 1907)
  • Sep 29 Caroline Yale, American educator who revolutionized the teaching of hearing-impaired students, born in Charlotte, Vermont (d. 1943)

Deaths in History

  • Sep 13 María Isabella of Spain, Queen of the Two Sicilies (1825-30), dies at 59
  • Sep 24 Branwell Brontë [Patrick Branwell Brontë], English painter and writer and brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne, dies at 31