Historical Events
- Sep 1 Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
Famous Deaths
- Sep 7 Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch-English physiologist (discovering photosynthesis) and personal physician of Maria Theresa, dies at 68
- Sep 7 Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, dies at 82
