Historical Events
- Sep 9 Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ, a dsstance of about 25 miles, covered in 3 hours
- Sep 15 Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool & Manchester Railway
- Sep 15 First National Negro Convention begins in Philadelphia
- Sep 15 First passenger to be killed by a railway train (William Huskisson in England)
- Sep 16 Oliver Wendell Holmes writes poem "Old Ironsides" as tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution
- Sep 20 1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods
- Sep 23 Dutch troops occupy Brussels
- Sep 27 Dutch army leaves Brussels, after hundreds killed
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 2 William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
Frederic Mistral (1830-1914)
Sep 8 French Provencal poet (Nobel 1904), born in Maillane, France
- Sep 12 William Sprague IV, American politician and Governor of Rhode Island (1859-63), born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1915)
- Sep 13 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (The Child of the Parish), born in Zdislavič, Moravia (d. 1916)
- Sep 15 José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori, President of Mexico (1877-1911), born in Oaxaca, Mexico (d. 1915)
- Sep 25 Karl Klindworth, German pianist and conductor, born in Hanover, Germany (d. 1916)
- Sep 27 William Babcock Hazen, American Major General (Union Army), born in West Hartford, Vermont (d. 1887)
- Sep 29 John Parker Hawkins, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1914)
Famous Weddings
- Sep 14 Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (20) marries her cousin Prince Albert of Prussia (20) (marriage dissolved 1849)
Famous Deaths
- Sep 15 William Huskisson, Briton and the first rail fatality (b. 1770)
- Sep 18 William Hazlitt, English critic and essayist, dies at 52
- Sep 19 Stanislas Champein, French composer, dies at 76
- Sep 23 Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, First Lady of the United States (1817-25) as the wife of the fifth President James Monroe, dies at 62
