Historical Events
- Sep 6 Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)
Tiffany & Co Founded
Sep 18 Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young co-found a "stationery and fancy goods emporium" in New York City, later renamed in 1853 as "Tiffany & Co."
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 2 James Harrison Wilson, American topographic engineer and Major General (Union Army), born in Shawneetown, Illinois (d. 1925)
- Sep 7 Olive Oatman, American (as a teen captured and released by Native Americans), born in La Harpe, Illinois (d. 1903)
- Sep 14 Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician, born in Georgia, Russian Empire (d. 1903)
- Sep 15 Leo van Gheluwe, Belgian composer, born in Wannegem-Lede, East Flanders (d. 1914)
- Sep 16 Pedro V, King of Portugal (1853-61), known as "The Hopeful", born at Necessidades Palace, Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1861)
- Sep 18 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, Portuguese Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa, born in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (d. 1880)
- Sep 19 Adolf Sonnenfeld, Polish violinist and composer, born in Wrocław, Poland (d. 1914)
