Page 3: Historical Events In December - 15
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1822 Edward Stephen, composer. 

1822 Ferenc Verseghy, composer, dies at 65 

1823 Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer 

1826 William Browser, revolting slave, executed in NYC 

1830 Francesco D'Arcais, composer 

1831 Paul R Cantzlaar, gov of Saba/Curacao/Dutch-West Indies, dies at 60 

1832 Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, French engineer is born 

1832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (Eiffel tower). 

1836 Patent Office burns in Washington DC. 

1836 Patent Office burns in Wash, DC 

1836 Edmond Picard, French/Belgian lawyer/writer (La forge Roussel). 

1839 Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish court-painter, dies at 66 

1842 Henry Gadsby, composer. 

1848 Edwin Howland Blashfield, decorated the dome of Library of Congress. 

1852 Antoine Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903). 

1853 Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies 

1854 inaugural street-cleaning machine in US inaugural used in Philadelphia. 

1854 Philadelphia residents were amazed as the inaugural street cleaning machine was put into operation 

1854 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia 

1857 Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer. 

1859 GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun. 

1859 Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, physician/linguist (Esperanto) 

1860 Niels Ryberg Finsen, Denmark, physician/phototherapist (Nobel 1903). 

1861 Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor (1st auto built and operated in US) 

1861 Gualtiero Sanelli, composer, dies at 45 

1863 Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign). 

1863 Arthur D Little, US, chemist (patented rayon) 

1864 Battle of Nashville, TN 

1868 Shogunate rebels are discovered Ezo Republic in HokkaidÅ 

1870 Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect. 

1873 Pongrac Kacsoh, composer 

1874 David Kalakaua, king of the Sandwich Islands chain in the South Pacific and inaugural regining king to visit the US, is received at the White House by US president Ulysses S. Grant. 

1874 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant 

1875 Friedrich Niggli, composer 

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