Historical Events
- Sep 10 King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange
Faraday Effect
Sep 13 English chemist Michael Faraday discovers the 'Faraday effect', the influence of a magnetic field on polarized light
- Sep 23 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
- Sep 23 Hunger strike in Hague
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, English army officer (Governor of Natal and Malta), born at Corsham Court, Eng;and (d. 1932)
Famous Weddings
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Sep 25 Confederate army Nathan Bedford Forrest (24) weds Presbyterian minister's daughter Mary Ann Montgomery (18) in Hernando, Mississippi
Famous Deaths
- Sep 4 Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard, French statesman and philosopher, dies at 82
- Sep 7 Isabella Colbran, wife of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini, dies
- Sep 10 Joseph Story, American lawyer and 19th Supreme Court justice (1812-45), dies at 65
- Sep 10 Karl August von Lichtenstein, German composer, dies at 78
- Sep 16 Johannes Kinker, Dutch linguist, philosopher and poet (Minderjarige Zangster), dies at 81
