Page 2: Historical Events In July - 17
Sunday, 22 February 2026
1704 Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer. 

1709 Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60 

1712 England, Portugal and France sign ceasefire [or 19th]. 

1727 Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor 

1740 Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV 

1744 Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering 

1746 Anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53. 

1753 Andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies 

1762 Catherine II is recorded as becoming tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia 

1762 Peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34 

1763 John Jacob Astor, US millionaire is born 

1763 Johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education. 

1763 Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45. 

1764 Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82 

1774 Capt Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata). 

1775 The inaugural military hospital approved 

1775 1st military hospital approved. 

1775 August Harder, composer 

1788 Russian fleet destroys Swedish 

1791 Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people 

1793 Charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined 

1794 African Church of St Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated. 

1794 Richard Allen organizes Phila's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church 

1794 Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45. 

1804 Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80. 

1815 Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces. 

1817 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer 

1821 Spain cedes Florida to US. 

1826 Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65 

1827 Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet). 

1830 Eelco Refer, linguist (Dictionary for the Dutch translator) 

1832 Johan August Soderman, composer. 

1838 John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82. 

1839 Friedrich Gernsheim, composer. 

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