Historical Events
- Sep 11 Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Years' War
Messier Catalogue
Sep 12 French astronomer Charles Messier mistakenly identifies the Crab Nebula, and begins his Messier Catalogue
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 10 Hannah Webster Foster, American author (The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton), born in Salisbury, Massachusetts (d. 1840)
- Sep 21 Christopher Gore, American lawyer and politician (8th Governor of Massachusetts), born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1827)
- Sep 26 Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician and founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1820)
Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)
Sep 29 British admiral and hero of Trafalgar, born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk
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