Historical Events
Darwin in the Galapagos
Sep 15 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin on board reaches the Galapagos Islands
- Sep 17 Charles Darwins lands on Chatham in Galapagos archipelago
- Sep 20 Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
- Sep 23 HMS Beagle sails to Charles Island in Galapagos archipelago
- Sep 26 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" premieres at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (now Italy)
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 3 William Gaston Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1901)
- Sep 11 William Wirt Allen, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in New York City (d. 1894)
- Sep 14 Joseph Hayes, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in York County, Maine (d. 1912)
- Sep 14 Y de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands (d. 1940 at 104)
- Sep 25 Harry Wright, English Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder and manager (established baseball's first fully professional team, Cincinnati Red Stockings 1869), born in Sheffield, England (d. 1895)
- Sep 27 John Murray Corse, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1893 [or 4/27])
Famous Weddings
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sep 14 American leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (33) marries 2nd wife Lydia (Lidian) Jackson in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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