Page 2: Historical Events In January - 02
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1791 Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War. 

1800 Free black community of Philadelphia PA petitions Congress to abolish slavery 

1800 Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave 

1801 Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59. 

1803 Gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector. 

1803 Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69. 

1807 Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer 

1809 Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer. 

1811 US Senator Thomas Pickering is inaugural senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the President of the US). 

1811 US Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US). 

1814 Lord Byron completes "The Corsair" 

1818 Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto). 

1822 Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics) 

1830 Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer. 

1831 Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston. 

1831 Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard) 

1832 inaugural Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens. 

1832 1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens 

1833 Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands. 

1835 Charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers) 

1837 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara). 

1839 inaugural photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) 

1839 The inaugural ever photographs o 

1839 The inaugural ever photographs of the Moon are taken 

1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) 

1842 inaugural US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania 

1842 1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn 

1842 Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist 

1843 Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holländer" premieres, Dresden 

1846 Sandor Erkel, composer. 

1849 The inaugural gaslit streets in the province of Quebec are lit in Quebec City 

1857 Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse and Gaston). 

1860 William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds). 

1861 Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia 

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