Page 3: Historical Events In September - 20
Thursday, 05 March 2026
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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