Historical Events
- Sep 3 Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname
Darwin's Prehistoric Fossils
Sep 22 During his HMS Beagle voyage Charles Darwin discovers a large number of fossils at Punta Alta in Argentina
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 4 Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat and Roman Catholic cardinal, born in Cologno al Serio, Italy (d. 1915)
- Sep 10 Randall L. Gibson, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Versailles, Kentucky (d. 1892)
- Sep 16 George Washington Custis Lee, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Fort Monroe, Virginia (d. 1913)
- Sep 20 Johann Joseph Abert, German composer, born in Gastorf, Bohemia (d. 1915)
- Sep 21 Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, German musician and composer, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (now Germany) (d. 1892)
- Sep 21 Samuel S. Carroll, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Takoma Park, Maryland (d. 1893)
- Sep 25 William Le Baron Jenney, American architect (father of skyscraper), born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts (d. 1907)
- Sep 26 Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, Russian composer, born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (d. 1887)
- Sep 30 Frederick Roberts "Bobs", British military commander and governor of Natal (Second Afghan War, Boer War), born in Cawnpore, British India (d. 1914)
Famous Deaths
- Sep 2 Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer, dies at 78
- Sep 9 Bernhard Klein, German composer, mainly of vocal works, dies at 39
- Sep 21 Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet (The Lady of the Lake, Ivanhoe), dies at 61
- Sep 27 Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher, dies at 51
