Page 2: Historical Events In February - 24
Sunday, 15 February 2026
1642 Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66 

1666 Nicholas Lanier, composer, dies at 77. 

1679 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer. 

1684 Catherine I, Empress of Russia 1725-27, Dorpat, Estonia. 

1686 Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66 

1692 Antimo Liberati, composer, dies at 74 

1697 Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist. 

1704 Hubert Renotte, composer. 

1704 Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies 

1708 Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen 

1711 Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres, London. 

1717 Bernhard Hupfeld, composer 

1735 Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer, dies at 56 

1739 Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah. 

1766 Samuel Wesley, Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo). 

1771 Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher. 

1779 George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes IN from British. 

1779 George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British 

1784 Anton Laube, composer, dies at 65 

1785 Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, dies at 39 

1786 Wilhelm Grimm, Author of fairy tales is born 

1786 Charles Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India 

1786 Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales). 

1793 French troops conquer Breda 

1797 Samuel Lover, composer 

1799 Broerius Brorius, theologist (Pensive Christian), dies at about 41. 

1803 Supreme Court inaugural rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury vs Madison). 

1803 Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison) 

1804 London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute 

1806 John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81. 

1807 17 die and 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty and Elizabeth Godfrey in England 

1809 Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian). 

1810 Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist, dies 

1811 Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church. 

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