10th » Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
12th » Elizabeth Barrett Browning called Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
14th » Jang Bahadur and his brothers Kot massacre or massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
19th » Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, Isère named La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
23rd » Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier known as Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
24th » Mexican–American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
25th » U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
Famous Birthdays on September in 1846
8th » Paul Chater, Indian-Hong Kong businessman (d. 1926)
16th » Anna Kingsford, English author, poet, and activist (d. 1888)
18th » Richard With, Norwegian captain, businessman, and politician, founded Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab (d. 1930)
21st » Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian-Slovene author and poet (d. 1906)
Famous Deaths for September 1846
23rd » John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-Australian explorer (b. 1818)