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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1756 Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, dies at 94. 
1760 Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75.
1778 William Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic
1783 Hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10).
1784 Simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71.
1790 Spanish start building forts in Nootka Sound to exploit sea otter harvest; try to head off English traders after the recent visit by Captain Cook.
1790 US Patent system established.
1790 Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth
1794 Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan
1797 Claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man)
1806 Leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1808 Auguste Franchomme, composer
1810 Konrad Back, composer, dies at 60
1812 Washington DC United States calls out the militia in preparation for a war against Britain that will begin June 18; attack on Upper Canada imminent
1815 Austria declares war on realm of Naples.
1816 2nd Bank of US chartered.
1821 Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Turks from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus
1823 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brig General (Confederate Army).
1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens.
1825 Paul-Louis Courier, (Mere), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53.
1826 The 10500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive
1827 Lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur).
1829 William Booth, Foudner of the Salvation Army is born
1829 William Booth, founder (Salvation Army)
1833 David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers).
1835 Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile.
1841 The New York Tribune published for the very inaugural time.
1841 NY "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley.
1845 More than 1000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa
1847 Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper owner is born
1847 Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer
1848 Godert AGP baron van Capellen, gove-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 69.
1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC) sold rights for $100.
1849 Safety pin patented in the United States.
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