Page 3: Historical Events In February - 13
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1787 James P Carrell, composer. 

1795 The inaugural state university in US opens, University of North Carolina. 

1795 1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina 

1798 Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies at 24. 

1799 The inaugural US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts 

1799 1st US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts 

1805 David Dudley Field, lawyer/law codifier 

1807 Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder (Liefdezusters) 

1809 French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege. 

1813 Charles Pierre Schimpf, governor of Suriname (1855-59). 

1814 Augustin Holler, composer, dies at 69 

1815 The Cambridge Union Society is founded. 

1816 Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire. 

1816 -14] Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire 

1820 Bela Albrecht Pal Keler, composer. 

1822 Lev A Mej, Russian nobleman/poet 

1826 American Temperance Society, forms in Boston 

1829 Gerard Keller, writer (Netherlands Spectator) 

1831 John Aaron Rawlins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1869 

1832 The inaugural appearance of cholera at London. 

1832 1st appearance of cholera at London 

1833 Hamilton Ontario is incorporated as a city; the oldest in Ontario. 

1833 William Whedbee Kirkland, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1915. 

1837 Riot in New York over high price of flour. 

1837 Riot in New York due to a combination of poverty and increase in the cost of flour 

1837 Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer 

1837 Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809. 

1840 Georg Jacobi, composer 

1841 Thomas Ainsworth, English/Dutch industrialist, dies at 45. 

1849 Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father 

1849 Christian Rummel, composer, dies at 61 

1852 Johan L E Dreyer, Danish astronomer (New gen catalogue of nebulae) 

1858 Sir Richard Burton and John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa 

1859 Frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist 

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