* September 5 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian and poet ( d. 1639 )

In a preliminary battle, the Action of 18 September 1639, Tromp was the first fleet commander known to deliberately use line of battle tactics.

Tommaso Campanella OP (; 5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639 ), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.

On 3 September 1639 the Leagues agreed with Spain to bring the Valtellina back under League sovereignty, but with the promise to respect the free exercise of the Catholic faith.

* September 5-Tommaso Campanella, philosopher and poet ( d. 1639 )

He married Lenox ( d. 1639 ), daughter of Sir John Rodes of Barlborough, Derbyshire, and his third wife Catherine, daughter of Marmaduke Constable of Holderness on 12 September 1626, at St Michael-le-Belfry in York.

The following spring, on September 4, 1639, the town was incorporated, and included portions of modern-day Byfield, Georgetown, and Haverhill.

While it is well documented that Maarten Tromp first used it in the Action of 18 September 1639, some have disputed this.

Hans Herr ( September 17, 1639 – October 11, 1725 ) was born in Zürich, Switzerland, a descendant of the Knight, Hugo Herr.

Charles I appointed Vermuyden as his own agent for the draining on 19 September 1639, but it was not until 5 August that Vermuyden received approval for his drainage plan.

William Russell, Lord Russell ( 29 September 1639 – 21 July 1683 ) was an English politician.

François Leguat ( 1637 / 1639 – September 1735 ) was a French explorer and naturalist.

Johannes Meursius ( van Meurs ) ( February 9, 1579, Loosduinen, near the Hague – September 20, 1639, Sorø ), was a Dutch classical scholar and antiquary.

* September 14 – Gilles Jullien, composer and organist ( born 1639 )

In 1639 he led the original settlers of Stratford, Connecticut, and served as the first minister of the church until his death, 7 September 1665.

He was at Bourges from 1635 to 1639 studying theology and then taught at three different schools before arriving in Quebec in September, 1646.

Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg was born on 15 September 1666, the only child of George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg by his long term mistress, Eleonore d ' Esmier d ' Olbreuse ( 1639 – 1722 ), Countess of Williamsburg, a Huguenot lady, the daughter of Alexander II d ' Esmiers, Marquess of Olbreuse.

In September and October, the town remains at the mercy of the plague.

While his paternal family was from the town of Velletri, about from Rome, Augustus was born in the city of Rome on 23 September 63 BC.

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

During September the town holds the Abergavenny Food Festival.

Large-scale air raids in World War II, including the preliminary bombing during Operation Market Garden to aid the US 101st Airborne Division paratroopers in securing the bridges in and around the town on 18 September 1944, destroyed large parts of the city.

The first attempt at serious military training among the Civil Guards was the establishment of a 200-strong " cavalry school " at Saksanniemi estate, in the vicinity of the town of Porvoo, east of Helsinki, on 19 September 1917.

* 1540 8 September – Corsairs from the Barbary Coast ( ruled by Barbarossa ) landed at Gibraltar in sixteen galleys, looting the town and taking away many captives.

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

On September 26, 1808, a Central Junta was formed in the town of Aranjuez to coordinate the nationwide struggle against the French.

On September 12, 1939 she was in the town of Końskie when 30 civilians were executed there, in retaliation for an alleged attack on German soldiers.

Unfortunately not a whole lot of very old buildings are left in town: first the Americans carpet-bombed it in February 1944, later the Germans shelled it for about five months after the liberation in September 1944, and finally there were a lot of very rigorous city planners in the 1950s, 60's and 70's who finished what the Americans and Germans started.

These events led to Owain being proclaimed Prince of Wales on 16 September 1400, by a small band of followers which included his eldest son, his brothers-in-law, and the Dean of St Asaph in the town of Corwen, possibly in the church of SS Mael & Sulien.

From December 1920 until September 1921, Magritte served in the Belgian infantry in the Flemish town of Beverlo near Leopoldsburg.

They began on 13 September 2009 in the town of Arenys de Munt in a self-organised local movement and was then followed by a slew of Catalan municipalities.

" In September Adorno's right to teach was revoked ; in March, as the swastika was run up the flag pole of town hall, the Institute's offices were searched by the Frankfurt criminal police.

* September 30 – The Austin Dam breaks, wiping out the town of Austin, Pennsylvania, United States, killing 78.

* September 28 – Philippine – American War: Balangiga massacre: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty United States soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.

* September 22 The town of Reshetylivka in the Soviet Union is occupied by German forces.

* September 13 – Mary, a circus elephant, is hanged in the town of Erwin, Tennessee for killing her handler, Walter " Red " Eldridge.

* September 25 – October 14 – WWI: Battle of Loos: British forces take the French town of Loos but with substantial casualties and are unable to press their advantage.

* September 2 – The Rock Springs Massacre occurs in Rock Springs, Wyoming ; 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.

* September 26 – Godalming in England becomes the first town to have its streets illuminated by electric light ( hydroelectrically generated ).

* September 23 – Rebels ( some 400 – 600 ) in the town of Lares declare Puerto Rico independent ; the local militia easily defeats them a week later.

* September 26 – A tornado destroys the town of Tampico, Mexico.

* September 4 – Rodi avalanche: A rock-or snowslide buries the Alpine town of Piuro, claiming 2, 427 victims.