Rum in History- September
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1522- Ferdinand Magellan's lieutenant Juan Sebastian d'Elcano (del Cano) returns to Seville September 6 aboard the Vittoria with 18 surviving sailors of the first circumnavigation of the world.
1559- Around 1,500 Spanish colonists land at Pensacola, Florida, but hostile natives force them to move to Port Royal Sound in what later will become the English colony of South Carolina.
1567- Antwerp's sugar-refining industry moves to Amsterdam following the capture of Antwerp by the duke of Alva.
1747- Prussian chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, 38, discovers that beets and carrots contain small amounts of sugar.
1813- France has 334 sugar plantations by year's end and has produced 35,000 tons of beet sugar.
1862- The U.S. Navy abolishes its rum ration through the influence of Rear Admiral Andrew Hull Foote, 56, who made his ship the first in the Navy to stop issuing rum rations. The ration was later reinstated.
1883- Sugar production of sugar beets equals that of sugarcane.