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What Happened in September 1786

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Historical Events

  • Sep 4 -5] William of Orange's troops plunder Netherlands towns of Hattem and Elburg
  • Sep 5 Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium
  • Sep 11 Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce
  • Sep 24 African American slave and poet Jupiter Hammon makes his "Address to the Negroes of the State of New York" speech advocating emancipation at meeting of African Society in NY
  • Sep 26 Britain & France sign trade agreement
Events in 1786

Famous Birthdays

  • Sep 10 Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier, born in Chilpancingo, Mexico (d. 1854)
  • Sep 10 William Mason, American politician, born in Lebanon, Connecticut (d. 1860)
  • Sep 11 Friedrich Kuhlau, German-Danish opera composer (Elves Hall), born in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony (now Germany) (d. 1832)
  • Sep 18 Christian VIII, King of Denmark (1839-1848) and King of Norway (1814), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1848)
  • Sep 18 Justinus Kerner, German physician and medical writer (first detailed description of botulism), born in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (d. 1862)
  • Sep 27 José Mariano Elízaga, Mexican composer, born in Morelia, Mexico (d. 1842)

Guadalupe Victoria (1786-1843)

Sep 29 Mexican independence leader, general and 1st President of Mexico (1824-29), born in Tamazula, New Spain

Guadalupe Victoria

Born in 1786

Famous Deaths

  • Sep 5 Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, philanthropist and noted opponent of drinking tea, dies at 74

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