15th » HMS or Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristóbal Island known as San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
20th » Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Empire of Brazil called Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Ragamuffin War.
Famous Birthdays on September in 1835
22nd » Alexander Potebnja, Ukrainian linguist and philosopher (d. 1891)
Famous Deaths for September 1835
15th » Sarah Knox Taylor, American wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
23rd » Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)