Page 3: Historical Events In February - 20
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1811 Austria declares bankruptcy. 

1811 Austria declares itself bankrupt. 

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

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. 

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