Howland Island was at last named after a lookout who sighted it from the whaleship Isabella of New Bedford on September 9, 1842.

About 1, 400 Mexican troops, led by the French mercenary general Adrián Woll, launched a second attack and captured San Antonio on September 11, 1842.

In September 1842 he lost the forefinger of his left hand in an accident while reloading a gun ; thereafter he wore a glove or finger sheath ( stall ).

* September 7 – Sidney Lanier, American writer ( b. 1842 )

* September 9 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet ( b. 1842 )

* September 11 – Antero de Quental, Portuguese poet ( b. 1842 )

* September 26 – William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand ( d. 1842 )

* September 8 – Clemens Brentano, German poet ( d. 1842 )

* September 14 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer ( d. 1842 )

* September 30 – Comte Siméon Joseph Jérôme, French jurist and politician ( d. 1842 )

On September 11, 1842, Woll's troops occupied San Antonio.

Hobson died in September 1842.

Charles Lapworth ( 20 September 1842 – 13 March 1920 ) was an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period.

The pantomime under " review " was a fabrication ( though it inspired a hack to turn it into an actual pantomime, The Ol ’ Clo's Man, in which Deburau probably appeared < ref > Gautier's " review " appeared in the Revue de Paris on September 4, 1842, but the manuscript of The Ol ’ Clo's Man that was submitted for approval to the censor's office before production of the pantomime bears the date October 17, 1842.

In 1842, Berlioz embarked on a concert tour of Brussels, Belgium from September to October.

Sir James Dewar FRS ( 20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923 ) was a Scottish chemist and physicist.

After being checked by the Sikh forces, the Chinese and the Sikhs signed a treaty in September 1842, which stipulated no transgressions or interference in the other country's frontiers.

The figurehead of the ship the ' Caledonia ', which foundered in September 1842, marks the grave in Morwenstow churchyard of five of the nine-man crew.

Clemens Brentano, or Klemens Brentano ( September 9, 1778 – July 28, 1842 ) was a German poet and novelist.

On September 11, 1842, the region of Soconusco joined Mexico as part of the department of Chiapas.

The original standard of was approved on September 12, 1842 with re-standardisation to 1520 mm taking place during the 1960s.

Abel Aubert Dupetit Thouars | Dupetit Thouars taking over Tahiti on September 9, 1842.

Sidney Lanier ( February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881 ) was an American musician and poet.

He was granted the title of Rajah of Sarawak on 24 September 1841, partly attributed to his relationship with a daughter of the Sultan, although the official declaration was not made until 18 August 1842.

In the same year, Flockhart travelled to Spain for the filming of Fragile, which premiered in September 2005 at the Venice Film Festival.

In September 2007, after Carr came under fire following the Wolverines ' 0 – 2 start, Crowe travelled to Ann Arbor, Michigan for the Wolverines ' 15 September game against Notre Dame to show his support for Carr.

In September 1976 the band travelled to London to perform at the two-day 100 Club Punk Festival, organised by Malcolm McLaren.

It was only after I'd created Little Plum ( April 1953 ) and Minnie the Minx ( September 1953 ) that the Beano editor George Moonie travelled to Preston on 20 October 1953 and asked me to go ahead with Bash Street ( he gave it the provisional title of ' When The Bell Goes '; when it appeared in The Beano in February 1954, it was titled ' When The Bell Rings ').

After hearing reports of and witnessing massacres in Poland, Canaris on 12 September 1939 travelled to Hitler's headquarters train, at the time in Upper Silesia, to register his objection to the atrocities ; prior to reaching Hitler he encountered General Wilhelm Keitel whom he informed: " I have information that mass executions are being planned in Poland, and that members of the Polish nobility and the Roman Catholic bishops and priests have been singled out for extermination.

This further damaged relations between French and Kitchener, who had travelled to France in September 1914 during the Battle of the Marne to order French to resume his place in the Allied line.

Brunel arrived in New York on 6 September 1793, and he subsequently travelled to Philadelphia and Albany.

The explorer John Oxley passed by the Apsley Falls in September 1818 and travelled eastwards through this area en route to Port Macquarie.

One of the most notorious murder gangs operated by the Chilean Army was the Caravan of Death, whose members travelled by helicopter throughout Chile between 30 September and 22 October 1973.

Thus he travelled to Prague in September 1911 with his friend Kurt Szafranski in order to surprise his favorite author Max Brod with a visit and a model landscape that he had made himself.

The party travelled down the Moselle river to Coblentz, then down the Rhine river to the Prussian fortress-city of Wesel, where the Frenchmen remained in the central citadel from 19 September to 22 December 1792.

The exhibition then travelled to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice ( 29 January – 15 May 2011: ' I Vorticisti: Artisti ribellia a Londra e New York, 1914 – 1918 ') and then to Tate Britain under the title ' The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World ' between 14 June and 4 September 2011.

Rundstedt and Manstein travelled to Blaskowitz's headquarters to take charge, and by 11 September the Poles had been contained in a pocket around Kutno.

Kangaroo Island Ferries had a short-lived venture with SeaWay, which travelled from Wirrina Cove to Kingscote from September 2004 until February 2005.

In late August 1973, he travelled to Tokyo, Japan to challenge world Heavyweight champion George Foreman, losing by a knockout in the first round there on September 1.

In the meantime he had travelled around the world: Russia and Central Asia ( 1888-9 ), a long tour of Persia ( September 1889-January 1890 ), Siam, French Indochina and Korea ( 1892 ), and a daring foray into Afghanistan and the Pamirs ( 1894 ), and published several books describing central and eastern Asia and related policy issues.

On September of that year, Buchanan travelled to Puerto Rico, where he would meet Ismael Laguna, the world Lightweight champion from Panama, on 26 September.

In September 1671 he travelled with the Royal court of Charles II to Norwich where he called upon Sir Thomas Browne.

William Adams ( 24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620 ), also known in Japanese as Anjin-sama ( anjin, " pilot "; sama, a Japanese honorific ) and Miura Anjin ( 三浦按針: " the pilot of Miura "), was an English navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Englishman ever to reach that country.

Therefore he travelled to Niš, Kingdom of Serbia, where he and Serbian prime minister Pašić signed the secret Treaty of Serbian-Albanian Alliance on September 17, 1914.

In September 1901, after Queen Victoria's death in January, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York ( later to become King George V and Queen Mary ) visited Canada, and travelled with Lady Minto to western Canada and the Klondike.

Kitchener travelled to France for an emergency meeting on 2 September 1914, to re-organise French's thinking and get him to take part in the counter-offensive at the First Battle of the Marne.

At dawn on September 7, 1191, Richard's heralds travelled the camp, announcing that battle would be joined that day.