Page 2: Historical Events In August - 16
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1807 Claude C Saunier, French furniture maker, dies at about 72. 

1812 Gen Hull surrenders Detroit and Michigan territory to England 

1816 Joseph Robinson, composer 

1817 Henry Winter Davis, MC (Union), died in 1865. 

1819 Manchester Massacre; English police charge unemployed demonstrators 

1819 Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators 

1828 Joseph Bradford Carr, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 

1829 Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited. 

1831 Edward Payson Chapin, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863. 

1831 Eduard Brendler, composer, dies at 30 

1832 Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher 

1834 Charles Darwin climbs Mt Campana in Chile. 

1836 John Farmer, composer. 

1837 Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer. 

1845 Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist 

1846 Gioacchino Rossini marries Olympe Pélissier in Paris. 

1846 Justus van Maurik, Dutch cigar manufacturer/writer/editor (Groene). 

1854 Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies 

1858 Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan. 

1860 Jules Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintas) 

1861 Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy. 

1862 Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy). 

1863 Emancipation Proclamation signed. 

1863 Chickamauga campaign GA. 

1864 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault 

1864 Ferdinand C S Schiller, British philosopher (Riddles of the Sphinx). 

1864 John Randolph Chambliss Jr, planter/Confederate, dies in battle at 31 

1865 Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation 

1867 Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (Lonely) 

1868 Bernard MacFadden, publisher (Physical Culture, True Romances) 

1869 Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance. 

1870 Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion. 

1870 Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer, dies at 80 

1871 Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer 

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