Historical Events
- Sep 1 1st Pullman sleeping car in service
- Sep 1 R C Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of a solar flare
- Sep 2 A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
- Sep 2 Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
Livingstone Sights Lake Nyasa
Sep 16 British explorer David Livingstone is the first European to sight Lake Nyasa - now forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania & Mozambique
James Donnelly Sentenced
Sep 17 James Donnelly is sentenced to hang for murdering Patrick Farrell, but a petition for clemency reduces his sentence to 7 years in Kingston Penitentiary
Emperor Norton I
Sep 17 Joshua Abraham Norton, English-born resident of San Francisco, proclaims himself his Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 3 Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité, Les Preuves), born in Castres, Second French Empire (d. 1914)
- Sep 4 Edoardo Mascheroni, Italian composer, born in Milan (d. 1941)
- Sep 5 Lester A. Pelton, American inventor (water wheel for hydroelectricity), born in Vermilion, Ohio (d. 1908) [1]
- Sep 11 Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian Realist writer (Pavao Šegota), born in Senj, Croatia (d. 1905)
Yuan Shikai (1859-1916)
Sep 16 Chinese general and President of the Republic of China (1916), born in Xiangcheng, Henan, Qing dynasty, China
- Sep 17 Frank Dawson Adams, Canadian geologist, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1942)
- Sep 17 Richard Henry Warren, American organist and composer, born in Albany, New York (d. 1933)
- Sep 18 John L. Bates, American lawyer and politician (41st Governor of Massachusetts), born in Easton, Massachusetts (d. 1946)
- Sep 18 Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher and politician, born in Indiana, Pennsylvania (d. 1940)
- Sep 21 Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron and writer (Sursum Corda, Ace Knave), born in Nevele, Belgium (d. 1932)
- Sep 24 Julius Klengel, German cellist and composer, born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1933)
Famous Deaths
- Sep 5 Friedrich von Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859)
Sep 15 British engineer (SS Great Britain, Great Western Railway), dies of a stroke at 53
