Page 4: Historical Events In February - 01
Saturday, 30 May 2026
1844 Eduard Adolf Strasburger, German botanist (Angiospermen). 

1846 In this year, Theophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation. 

1850 Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. 

1850 Influenza in North America. 

1851 Anti-transportation groups meet in Melbourne to lobby for permanent end to shipping of convicts to eastern Australian colonies 

1851 Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, British author of Frankenstein 

1851 Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, dies at age 53. 

1851 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53. 

1852 Yellow fever in Argentina 

1853 Plague in Ottoman Empire 

1853 Cholera epidemic of Copenhagen 1853 in Copenhagen, Denmark killing 4737 people 

1854 Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Quebec; government transfers to Toronto; hastens the decision to move to Ottawa 

1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak in England killing 616 people. 

1855 Third plague pandemic in Worldwide killing 12 million+ in India and China alone people 

1856 Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College. 

1857 Yellow fever in Portugal 

1857 Smallpox in Victoria, Australia 

1857 Influenza in Europe, North America, South America 

1858 Douglas Law comes into force in British Columbia; miners required to buy licenses to search for gold in the Fraser Valley. 

1859 Victor August Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland) 

1860 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC. 

1861 Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands. 

1861 Texas votes to secede from the Union 

1862 In this year, Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic" 

1862 In this year, Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic" 

1863 Fourth cholera pandemic in Middle East killing 600000 people 

1864 2nd German-Danish war begins. 

1864 Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein 

1864 Battle of Yazoo River, Mississippi 

1864 -Feb 8th] Battle of Yazoo River, MS 

1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day). 

1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins 

1865 JS Rock, inaugural black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar 

1866 Cholera in Russia, Germany 

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