Page 3: Historical Events In December - 01
Friday, 20 February 2026
1823 Ernest Reyer, composer. 

1824 House of Reps begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams, Jackson, WH Crawford and H Clay - Adams eventually declared president. 

1824 House of Reps begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams 

1825 Aleksandr I P Romanov, czar of Russia (1801-25), dies at 47 

1826 William Mahone, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 

1831 Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather 

1832 Archibald Gracie Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864. 

1835 Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy tales 

1835 Micah Jenkins, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 

1838 Van Diemen's Land gets its inaugural library to boost morale 

1840 Plague in Dalmatia. 

1840 Smallpox in South Africa 

1841 Yellow fever in United States. 

1842 Midshipman Philip Spencer, son of Secretary of War John C. Spencer, is hanged for mutiny from the yardarm of the U.S.S. Somers, a small brig of war at sea in West Indian waters. He was convicted at a court-martial held on the ship of conspiring to organize a mutiny, murder the officers, and convert the captured ship into a pirate vessel 

1842 Philip Spencer, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged. 

1843 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens. 

1844 Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain/Ireland 

1846 Third cholera pandemic in Russia killing 1 million+ people 

1847 Agathe Grondahl, composer. 

1847 Typhus epidemic of 1847 in Canada killing 20000+ people. 

1847 Yellow fever in United States. 

1847 Influenza in Worldwide. 

1848 Cholera in Egypt. 

1848 Cholera in North America. 

1850 Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller, composer. 

1852 Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands 

1854 Armed Diggers prepare for confrontation with troops on Eureka Hill, Victcoria. 

1864 Fire in Brisbane destroys city area bounded by Queen, George, Elizabeth and Albert streets. 

1864 Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, TN to Saltville, VA 

1865 Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder, dies at 76. 

1868 John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war. 

1871 Archie MacLaren, cricketer (424 Lancashire v Somerset 1895). 

1873 Charles JM Ruys de Beerenbrouck, premier of Neth (1918-25, 29-33) 

1874 Dominicus Johner, composer 

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