Timeline September 1849

Events in September 1849 2

• 1804 – 1849 Johann Strauss I (1804-1849) Died 25 September 1849, aged 45 Austrian composer and violinist known as the father of the waltz, famous for works including the Radetzky March. He died in Vienna during a scarlet fever epidemic. His son Johann Strauss II would eclipse him as the "Waltz King".
• 1849 Harriet Tubman escapes slavery Tubman flees a Maryland plantation to freedom Harriet Tubman escaped enslavement in Maryland and made her way north to Pennsylvania. She would go on to return to the South repeatedly as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, guiding dozens of enslaved people to freedom. Her escape marked the beginning of her career as an abolitionist.