Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the Significance of February 20 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1816  Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome.   

1816  Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer.   

1817  Martin de Ron, composer, dies at 27.   

1820  Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895   

1823  English Captain James Weddell reaches 74º 15' S, 1520 km from South Pole.   

1823  English Capt James Weddell reaches 74°15' S, 1520 km from S pole.   

1827  Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1912   

1831  Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow.   

1832  Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean.   

1835  Concepcion, Chile destroyed by earthquake; 5000 die   

1835  Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist.   

1838  James Barbour Terrill, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864   

1839  Anti-duelling law was passed by US Congress   

1839  Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia.   

1844  Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics)   

1845  Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer, dies at 57.   

1846  British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore.   

1848  [Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of Neth/gen-maj, dies at 29   

1851  Josef Alois Ladurner, composer, dies at 81.   

1852  Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russian author (Tjoma Kartashov).   

1854  Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director (Youth).   

1855  Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies.   

1856  John Rutledge, Liverpool-New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die.   

1856  John Rutledge, Liverpool-NY steamer, hits iceberg; many die.   

1860  Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69   

1861  Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms   

1861  Nicolaas van Meeteren, Curacao, folklorist   

1864  Civil War Battle of Olustee, Florida   

1865  M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school   

1869  Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis.   

1869  Tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis   

1870  Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen).   

1872  Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin.   

1872  Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags.   

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