4th » Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers.
5th » Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the Siege of Yorktown called British surrender at Yorktown.
6th » The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a Kingdom of Great Britain known as British victory.
28th » American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
Famous Birthdays on September in 1781
3rd » Eugène de Beauharnais, French general (d. 1824)
5th » Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer and publisher (d. 1858)
23rd » Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)