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Wednesday, 04 February 2026
1801 Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882. 
1802 Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist, dies at 77.
1806 Johann Michael Haydn, composer, dies at 68
1808 Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer
1809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain
1809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1810 Camilio Benso di Cavour, Turin Italy, PM
1814 Jacob Edvard Gille, composer
1821 Missouri admitted as 24th US state
1821 Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52
1822 Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20000 die.
1823 Charles Keene, Hornsey, artist
1827 Race riots in Cincinnati (1000 blacks leave for Canada).
1831 Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery.
1831 Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200.
1835 Mob of whites and oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
1835 Gyula Beliczay, composer.
1836 Jose Teodor Vilar, composer.
1840 The 'Star of the East' inaugural known balloon to fly in Canada.
1841 Hippolyte Monpou, composer, dies at 37
1843 Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies.
1845 Kunanbajew, writer
1846 Congress charters the "nation's attic," the Smithsonian Institution
1846 Smithsonian Institution founded in the United States
1846 Congress charters "nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution.
1854 J Scott Lidgett, London, theologist.
1856 Hurricane washes away 300 in Louisiana
1856 Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana.
1856 Paul Geisler, composer
1857 John Wilson Croker, politician.
1859 George Staunton, writer
1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-Gen Lyon killed
1861 Almroth Wright, Yorkshire England, bacteriologist.
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