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In September 1808 John Bonnyman, a stonemason, had to have a finger amputated following an accident with the beam crane on the Rock ; as recompense for this mishap he was later appointed one of the first lighthouse keepers.
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On September 26, 1808, a Central Junta was formed in the town of Aranjuez to coordinate the nationwide struggle against the French.
* Catherine Wordsworth ( 6 September 1808 – 4 June 1812 ).
* September 18 – A new theatre to hold the Royal Opera House opens in London to replace the first, burnt down in a fire in 1808.
* September 9 – Benjamin Bourne, American politician ( d. 1808 )
* September 8 – Mustafa IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire ( d. 1808 )
* September 3 – Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec ( d. 1808 )
* September 22 – John Home, Scottish dramatist ( d. 1808 )
At the Congress of Erfurt ( September – October 1808 ), Napoleon and Alexander agreed that Russia should force Sweden to join the Continental System, which led to the Finnish War of 1808 – 09 and to the division of Sweden into two parts separated by the Gulf of Bothnia.
One prisoner, Charles Francois Bourchier, stabbed a civilian Alexander Halliday while attempting to escape on 9 September 1808.
For each variety, there was a new enabling statute or executive decree: 28 March 1803 ; 7 April 1803 ; 26 June 1804 ; 8 September 1805 ; 11 February 1807 ; 5 August 1807 ; and 22 October 1808.
Because in Illinois at that time it was illegal for railroads or their officials to establish new towns, much of the land was then transferred to two McLean County real estate developers Jesse W. Fell ( 10 November 1808 – 22 February 1887 ) and Charles W. Holder ( 29 September 1819-30 April 1900 ).
Thomas Dartmouth Rice ( May 20, 1808 – September 19, 1860 ) was a white performer and playwright who used African American vernacular speech, song, and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time.
Richard Porson ( 25 December 1759 – 25 September 1808 ) was an English classical scholar.
For some months before his death he had appeared to be failing: his memory was not what it had been, and he had some symptoms of intermittent fever ; but on 19 September 1808 he was seized in the street with a fit of apoplexy, and after partially recovering died on the 25th.
* September 18-Jean Baptiste Gustave Planche, critic ( born 1808 )
Mustafa IV ( Ottoman Turkish: مصطفى رابع Muṣṭafā-yi rābi ‘) ( September 8, 1779 – November 15 / 16, 1808 ) was sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1807 to 1808.
Lewis was nominated and recommended to serve as the first Master of the proposed Lodge, which was warranted as Lodge No. 111 on September 16, 1808.
** Samuel Shaw ( DR ), from September 6, 1808
| Seated September 6, 1808
* September 22-John Home, Scottish dramatist ( died 1808 )
John Home ( 22 September 1722 – 5 September 1808 ) was a Scottish poet and dramatist.
The Swedish Instruments of Government of 1772, the Act of Union and Security of 1789, and the Law of 1734 were declared to have taken precedence and were to be implemented following 1 September 1808.
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The corporation voted on September 27, 1598, that Quiney should ride to London about the suit to Sir John Fortescue, chancellor of the Exchequer, for discharging of the tax and subsidy.
The largest abalone recorded in California is 12. 34 inches, caught by John Pepper somewhere off the coast of Humboldt county in September 1993.
The Scottish forces reached the south coast of England at the port of Dover where in September 1216, Alexander paid homage to the pretender Prince Louis of France for his lands in England, chosen by the barons to replace King John.
* Johnny Appleseed John Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), also known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
John Flamsteed, from measurements made in 1689 and succeeding years with his mural quadrant, similarly concluded that the declination of the Pole Star was 40 ″ less in July than in September.
Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
Lagow provided the animal to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials for identification, but Lagow reported in a September 17, 2006 phone interview with John Adolfi, founder of the Lost World Museum, that the " critter was caught on a Tuesday and thrown out in Thursday's trash.
Well known collective traumas include: The John F. Kennedy assassination in the United States, the Estonia disaster in Sweden, the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and various others.
After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War ( 19 July 1870 ), Monet took refuge in England in September 1870, where he studied the works of John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner, both of whose landscapes would serve to inspire Monet's innovations in the study of color.
Cecilia Beaux ( May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942 ) was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent.
The first British person to see Darwin harbour appears to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839.
Playing acoustic guitar, she formed a group with Bowie and bassist John Hutchinson ; between September 1968 and early 1969, when Bowie and Farthingale broke up, the trio gave a small number of concerts combining folk, Merseybeat, poetry and mime.
* John Darwin, rector of Elston ( 28 September 1730 – 24 May 1805 )
On September 4, the army had occupied the Île aux Noix in the Richelieu River, a few miles above Fort St. John, which they then prepared to besiege.
On September 8, Schuyler sent Allen and Massachusetts Major John Brown, who had also been involved in the capture of Ticonderoga, into the countryside between St. John and Montreal to spread the word of their arrival to the habitants and the Indians.
By September the Imperial forces under the Duke of Lorraine, together with a powerful Polish army under King John III Sobieski, were poised to strike the Sultan's army investing Vienna.
# John Albert ( 20 September 1499, Ansbach – 17 May 1550, Halle ), Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1545 to 1550.
His crew for the mission, which occurred on September 2, 1944, included Radioman Second Class John Delaney and Lieutenant Junior Grade William White.
In September 2009 the Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce released an Economic impact study and analysis of the economies of Gibraltar and the Campo de Gibraltar produced by Professor John Fletcher of Bournemouth University.
In September 1990, John Carmack developed an efficient way to perform rapid side-scrolling graphics on the PC.
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John Alden ( 1599 – September 12, 1687 ) is said to be the first person from the Mayflower to set foot on Plymouth Rock in 1620.
The war went very badly, and when the British burned the capitol building on August 24, 1814, Madison removed John Armstrong as Secretary of War and turned to Monroe for help, appointing him Secretary of War on September 27.
Posthumous Portrait of Percy Shelley | Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound ( Shelley ) | Prometheus Unbound ( 1845 ) On 17 September 1820, Severn set sail onboard the Maria Crowther from England to Italy with the famous English poet John Keats.
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