Page 3: Historical Events In February - 19

1831  1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn   

1841  Felipe Pedrell, composer.   

1843  Adelina Patti, Madrid Spain, opera soprano (Lucio)   

1846  Texas state government formally installed in Austin.   

1846  Texas state govt formally installed in Austin   

1852  The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.   

1856  Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier OH   

1856  Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio   

1858  Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer, dies at 78   

1859  Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity inaugural time this defense is successfully used   

1859  Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used.   

1859  Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903)   

1861  Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom.   

1861  Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom [NS=Mar 3]   

1863  Emanuel Moor, composer.   

1864  Knights of Pythias form inaugural lodge in Washington DC (12 members)   

1864  Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Wash DC (12 members)   

1864  Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture (Work Law of 1911).   

1864  William Edwin Baldwin, US Confederate brig-general, dies   

1865  Adrian van Oordt, Dutch writer (neo-romantic)   

1869  US Assay Office in Boise ID authorized.   

1869  US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized   

1875  Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76   

1877  Else Berg, German/Dutch painter.   

1878  Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.   

1878  Thomas Edison receives a patent for his cylinder-playing music player (forerunner of the "modern day" phonograph).   

1878  Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)   

1878  Charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61.   

1880  Arthur Shepherd, composer   

1881  Kansas is recorded as becoming inaugural state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages   

1881  Kansas is recorded as becoming 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.   

1881  Armin Knab, German composer (Eichendorff-cycle)   

1884  Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana kill 800 people.   

1884  Tornadoes in Miss, Ala, NC, SC, Tenn, Ky and In kill 800 people.   

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1473  Nicolaus copernicus: Polish mathematician and astronomer   

1526  Charles de l'ecluse: Flemish botanist   

1552  Melchior klesl: Austrian cardinal and statesman   

1588  Pieter de carpentier: Flemish gov-gen of dutch east-indies   

1611  Andries de graeff: Mayor of amsterdam (1657..71)   

1616  Jacques de saint-luc: Composer   

1630  Shivaji: Founder of the maratha empire   

1660  Friedrich hoffmann: German physician and chemist   

0197  D clodius septimus albinus: Roman bequest in england,   

0440  Death of Mesrop mashtots: Armenian monk, theologian and linguist (b. 361/362)   

1133  Death of Irene ducaena: Wife of alexius i comnenus (b. 1066)   

1260  Death of Boniface: Of lausanne, belgian bishop/saint,   

1401  Death of William sawtree: 1st english religious martyr, burned in london   

1414  Death of Thomas arundel: Archbishop of canterbury/chancellor of england,   

1545  Pierre brully: [peter brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death   

1553  Death of Erasmus reinhold: German mathematician,