Historical Events
- Sep 3 Earl d'Orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest
'I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight'
Sep 23 John Paul Jones aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard defeats the British frigate HMS Serepis and becomes the United States first well-known naval hero
John Adams the Peace Negotiator
Sep 27 John Adams appointed to negotiate Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 8 Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, German composer, born in Königsberg, East Prussia (d. 1853)
- Sep 8 Mustafa IV, 29th Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1807-08), born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (d. 1808)
- Sep 10 Louis Alexandre Piccinni, Italian-French composer, born in Paris (d. 1850)
- Sep 18 Joseph Story, American lawyer and 19th Supreme Court justice (1812-45), born in Marblehead, Massachusetts (d. 1845)
