What Happened In September 1866 In History

Historical Events for September, 1866

• 22nd » Battle of Curupayty in the Paraguayan War.

Famous Birthdays on September in 1866

• 1st » James J. Corbett, American boxer (d. 1933)
• 2nd » Charles Vintcent, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1943)
• 7th » Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (d. 1947)
• 10th » Jeppe Aakjær, Danish author and poet (d. 1930)
• 12th » Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English cricketer and politician, 13th Governor General of Canada (d. 1941)
• 13th » Ole Østmo, Norwegian target shooter (d. 1923)
• 16th » Georg Voigt (politician) called Georg Voigt, German politician, List of mayors of Marburg e.g Mayor of Marburg (d. 1927)
• 21st » Charles Nicolle, French-Tunisian microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
• 21st » H. G. Wells, English journalist, historian, and author (d. 1946)
• 25th » Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
• 27th » Eurosia Fabris, Italian saint (d. 1932)
• 29th » Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Ukrainian historian, academic, and politician (d. 1934)

Famous Deaths for September 1866

• 3rd » Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830)

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