Page 3: Historical Events In September - 17
Saturday, 04 April 2026
1819 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii. 

1819 Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist (pendulum proved Earth rotates) 

1820 Earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 

1820 Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 

1821 Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer. 

1823 Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker, dies at 76. 

1824 Giacomo Tritto, composer, dies at 91 

1825 Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, MC (Confederacy), died in 1893 

1826 G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function). 

1834 Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer. 

1835 Charles Darwins lands on Chatham Galapagos-archipelago 

1839 Ethel Mary Dell, [Mrs G T Savage], romantic novelist, dies 

1846 Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer, dies at 84 

1849 Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer. 

1850 Great fire in San Francisco 

1853 Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Patristischen Philosophie). 

1854 Hans Muller, music historian 

1857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket and space research. 

1858 Dred Scott, US slave (REV-decision Supreme court), dies 

1859 In this year, Man in SF claims himself Norton I, emperor of America 

1859 Frank D Adams, Canada geologist/educator 

1861 1st day school for freedmen forms at Fortress Monroe Virginia. 

1861 Owen Seaman, poet/editor (Punch) 

1862 Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of the Civil War. 

1862 Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals 

1862 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, (Rep-D)/Confederate brig-general, dies at 41. 

1863 Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada 

1863 Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies 

1864 Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign 

1864 Walter Savage Landor, author, dies. 

1868 Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies. 

1869 Christian Lange, Norway, pacifist/internationalist (Nobel 1921) 

1869 Peter M Roget, England, lexographer (Roget's Thesaurus), dies. 

1871 Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens. 

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