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Sunday, 15 February 2026
1689 The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire 
1698 Baal Shem Tov, Founder of the Chasiddic movement {d. 1760).
1719 John/Jean Nepveu, Dutch governor of Suriname (1768-79).
1725 Guillaume de Chazel, drowns in wreck of payship 'Le Chameau,' which sinks 25 km from Louisbourg; are discovered by 3 divers in May 1966, with gold and silver coins worth $700000.
1730 Hamann, writer
1739 Michel Delalande, composer
1746 Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer, dies
1748 James Thomson, dies.
1752 Herman Muntinghe, Dutch theologist (History of Mankind).
1758 Colonel John Bradstreet 1714-1774 captures Fort Frontenac and its rich storehouses, as well as nine armed vessels with 100 guns, the total French naval force on Lake Ontario; British have only two wounded and not a single man killed.
1768 Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Maastricht).
1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor (dialectic)
1776 Americans lose to the British at the Batttle of Long Island
1776 British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island.
1783 The inaugural hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude.
1783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude.
1788 Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance.
1789 French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of the Rights of Man and the Citizen"
1789 French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen"
1798 Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English
1799 English invasion army lands in North-Holland
1809 Hannibal Hamlin, (R) 15th VP (1861-65)
1813 Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians.
1816 Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates.
1824 Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863.
1826 Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brig General (Union volunteers)
1827 Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat, dies
1828 Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talk.
1828 Eise J Eisinga, constructed planetarium at Franeker, dies at 84
1830 Louis H J Condé, French prince, commits suicide at 74
1832 Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
1832 James Alexander Walker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901.
1835 Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter.
1837 Heinrich Urban, composer
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