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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1814 Marquis de Sade, writer, dies at 74. 
1816 inaugural savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society).
1816 1st savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
1821 Rufus Barringer, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895.
1822 In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US
1823 President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
1825 Pedro II van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1831-89)
1828 Simon Paap, Dutch 56 cm long dwarf/cabaret artist, dies at 39
1831 Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, composer, dies at 56.
1837 Charles Garrison Harker, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1840 The opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris)
1840 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Favorita," premieres in Paris.
1845 Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
1845 Johannes Simon Mayr, composer, dies at 82
1846 Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Min of Foreign affairs/premier
1848 Franz Josef I is recorded as becoming emperor of Austria and King of Hungary
1851 Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
1852 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon is recorded as becoming emperor.
1856 Robert Kajanus, composer
1859 Abolitionist John Brown is hanged for his part in a raid on Harper's Ferry, WV
1859 Georges Seurat, French painter is born
1859 Georges Seurat, France, painter/pointillist (Grande Jatte)
1859 John Brown, US abolitionist (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59.
1860 C T Studd, cricketer (brother of G B, five Tests for England)
1863 Gustav Wohlgemuth, composer
1864 Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia.
1864 Archibald Gracie Jr, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 31
1866 Henry Thacker Burleigh, Erie Pa, black composer (Springarn Medal)
1867 In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his inaugural public reading in the United States
1868 1st British government of Disraeli steps down.
1868 Francis Jammes, French poet/writer (Jammisme)
1869 Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Theory of the Dialects).
1870 Francis Louis Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor.
1875 Frank Reicher, Munich Germany, actor (King Kong, Son of Kong)
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