Page 3: Historical Events In August - 12
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1825 Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, composer 

1827 William Blake, English poet/painter, dies at 69 

1829 John Horace Forney, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 

1830 Franz de Paula Roser, composer, dies at 50. 

1831 Dutch troops conquer Leuven. 

1832 Hely Hutchinson Almond, politician/doctor 

1833 Chicago is founded 

1833 William Price Sanders, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863. 

1838 Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal. 

1845 Off Point Pelee, Ontario the steamships Kent and London collide in clear weather, with the loss of ten lives. 

1848 Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet (Along the Nile) 

1848 George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies 

1849 Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter/naturalist 

1849 Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Min of Finance (1801-14), dies at 88. 

1851 Isaac Singer granted patent for his sewing machine. 

1851 1st America's Cup-US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora 

1853 Jean Louis Nicode, composer. 

1854 Alfred Gilbert, sculptor/goldsmith. 

1856 Anthony Fass patents accordion. 

1857 William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies. 

1859 Katharine Lee Bates, US, author (America the Beautiful) 

1861 Skirmish at Texas-rebels are attacked by Apache Indians 

1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX 

1863 inaugural cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area). 

1863 The inaugural cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet for export 

1863 1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area). 

1865 William Jackson Hooker, botanist, dies 

1866 Jacinto Benavente y MartÃnez, Spanish playwright (Nobel 1922). 

1867 Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton 

1867 Edith Hamilton, US, writer (Mythology). 

1868 Frederick JNT lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-India (1916-21) 

1875 Ettore Panizza, composer 

1876 Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup. 

1876 Off Newport Rhode Island, the US yacht Madeleine beats the Countess Dufferin from Toronto in two straight heats in the 4th America's Cup. 

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