Hi,
Thanks for using the Events Calendar.
Here on the pre-sales forum, I’m afraid we do not provide technical support. I would ask that you take any technical support questions across to our wordpress.org forum – our staff scan it periodically and other community members may also be able to help out.
The Events Calendar
If you have purchased a plugin from us, please login and post in the premium forums for that plugin and we can help you out there:
https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/
Also it sounds like you are setting the start and end date for the first event as the whole series. The start and end date of the first event should be 9/4/16.
For more support please again follow up in the premium forums
Thanks again!