Page 3: Historical Events In January - 06
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1790 Johann Trier, composer, dies at 73. 

1791 Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer 

1794 Kaspar Masek, composer. 

1798 Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer 

1799 Jedediah Strong Smith, US fur trader/explorer. 

1799 W G Frederik, prince of Orange/general, dies at 25. 

1800 Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician. 

1800 William Jones, composer, dies at 73 

1802 Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica) 

1803 Henri Herz, composer 

1807 Joseph Holt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894 

1811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874. 

1822 Heinrich Schliemann, German polyglot/archeologist (Troje) 

1826 Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 

1827 John Calvin Brown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889. 

1829 Kanagaki Robun [Bunzo Nozaki], Japanese humorist/gesaku-author. 

1831 Rodolphe Kreutzer, Fr composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at 64. 

1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston). 

1832 Gustave Dore, French illustrator is born. 

1838 Samuel F.B. Morse makes the inaugural public demonstration of the telegraph, in Morristown, New Jersey. 

1838 Samuel Morse gives the inaugural demonstration of the electric telegraph 

1838 Max Bruch, Koln (Cologne), Germany, composer 

1839 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind". 

1839 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind". 

1842 4500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India. 

1842 Clarence King, mining engineer (geologist). 

1845 Protestants and Catholics riot in Stratford, Ontario following the council election; eighty men fight in the streets 

1850 Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist (New Era) 

1854 Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle) 

1856 Giuseppe Martucci, composer. 

1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Pennsylvania. 

1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn. 

1859 Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Moral order and progress). 

1861 Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola. 

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