Page 3: Historical Events In September - 20

1833  Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires.   

1833  Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italy, journalist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907).   

1835  Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil   

1839  1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem).   

1839  Jose Gaspar de Francia, dictator of Paraguay (1816-39), dies at 74.   

1842  James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist (Dewarfles/cordiet)   

1846  Agnes Tyrrell, composer.   

1847  Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist (Catechism Revolutionary).   

1848  The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.   

1850  Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue.   

1852  Edouard baron Empain, Belgian railway builder (Paris Metro)   

1854  British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in the Crimea   

1854  Battle at Alma Krim: 1000 British soldiers died.   

1859  Patent granted on the electric range   

1859  George Simpson patents electric range   

1859  Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator   

1860  inaugural British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII)   

1860  1st British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII).   

1861  Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union.   

1863  Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tenn, ends.   

1863  Battle of Shepardstown VA.   

1863  Benjamin Hardin Helm, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies at 33.   

1865  Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist   

1865  William H Revere Jr, US Union brig-general, dies   

1866  Gustave Doret, composer   

1869  George Robey, [George Edward Wade], comic.   

1870  Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French   

1871  Bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands. He was the inaugural bishop of Melanesia.   

1872  Maurice Gamelin, French generalissimo   

1873  Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure)   

1873  Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) NY shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal.   

1873  Robert D Wrenn, tennis champ (US Open   

1873  Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poetess/writer, dies.   

1876  Ottawa Football Club forms   

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1486  Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII of England (d. 1502) was born on September - 20.   

1593  Gottfried Scheidt, composer was born on September - 20.   

1599  On this day in history birth of christian the Younger, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)   

1653  On September - 20 birth of benedict Schultheiss, composer   

1663  Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli, composer was born on this day in history.   

1665  Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogist/chronologer was born on September - 20.   

1706  Franz Habermann, composer was born on this day in history.   

1744  Giacomo Quarenghi, Ital/Russian master builder (Hermitage Theater) was born on September - 20.   

1168  On this day in history paschal III, [Guido di Crema], Italian anti-Pope, dies   

1246  On this day in history death of mikhail of Chernigov, ruler of Kiev   

1384  Death of Louis, duke of Anjou/wife of Marie of Bretagne on this day in history.   

1460  On September - 20 death of gilles Binchois, Flemish composer   

1493  On this day in history philippe Pot, governor/viceroy of Burgundy, dies   

1586  On this day in history death of anthony Babington, page/conspirator to Mary Stuart, executed at 24   

1590  Death of Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534) on this day in history.   

1613  On this day in history willem H van Est (Estius), theologist, dies