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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1758 British battle fleet under gen James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg 
1759 French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY.
1760 Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz Silezie.
1770 Michael Schevenstuhl, composer, dies at 65
1775 The Post Office is esablished by the Continental Congress with Ben Franklin as postmaster general.
1775 United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin.
1782 John Field, Dublin Ireland, pianist/composer (Nocturnes)
1788 New York is recorded as becoming 11th state to ratify constitution.
1788 New York ratifies the U.S. Constitution
1788 NY is recorded as becoming 11th state to ratify constitution.
1790 US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts.
1791 Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM
1796 George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes).
1799 Isaac Babbitt, invented babbitt's metal for bearings
1801 John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Comm (Union Navy), died in 1867
1801 Daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86.
1802 Winthrop Mackworth Praed, London, poet/politician
1803 The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's inaugural public railway, opens in south London.
1805 Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26000 die
1805 Constantine Brumidi, artist (Myrtle Murdock).
1812 Frigate Essex captures British brig Leander.
1820 John Marshall Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1822 Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin
1826 Vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews
1826 Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82.
1829 August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94) (Nobel-1909)
1832 HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo
1835 The inaugural sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii.
1835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii.
1836 Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45.
1842 Alfred Marshall, London, economist.
1847 Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society.
1847 Liberia, setled in Africa by freed U.S. slaves, is recorded as becoming the inaugural African colony to become an independent state.
1848 The inaugural Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY).
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