7th » Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers slaughter most members of peaceful, emigrant wagon train.
11th » The Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
12th » The SS known as Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush.
20th » The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
22nd » The Russian warship 'Russian ship of the line Lefort or Lefort' capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
Famous Birthdays on September in 1857
2nd » Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
6th » Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
8th » Georg Michaelis, German politician, 6th Chancellor of Germany (German Reich) called Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
12th » Manuel Espinosa Batista, Colombian pharmacist and politician (d. 1919)
13th » Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel and activist (d. 1937)
13th » Milton S. Hershey, American businessman, founded The Hershey Company (d. 1945)
15th » William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)
17th » Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and engineer (d. 1935)
18th » John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge (d. 1945)
Famous Deaths for September 1857
3rd » John McLoughlin, Canadian-American businessman (b. 1784)
5th » Auguste Comte, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1798)
18th » Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1785)