Page 2: Historical Events In June - 21
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1749 Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Neth. 

1763 Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher 

1768 The inaugural US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer) 

1768 1st US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer). 

1774 Daniel D Tompkins, (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25). 

1788 US Constitution comes into force as NH is 9th to ratify. 

1790 Wilhelm Speyer, composer 

1791 Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne 

1792 Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil and Mexicana off Vancouver, BC. 

1805 Great Stoneface Mt are discovered in NH 

1805 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer. 

1813 Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria. 

1817 James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887. 

1818 Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer 

1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC). 

1823 Edward Elmer Potter, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1889. 

1824 Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea 

1826 Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas. 

1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine 

1839 Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer (Epitaph of a small winner) 

1844 Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st railway Congo). 

1849 Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels. 

1851 Daniel Carter Beard, US, organized 1st boy scout troop 

1854 inaugural Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands 

1858 Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe 

1859 Henry O Tanner, artist 

1862 Henry Holden Huss, composer 

1863 Battle at Upperville Virginia, 389 casualities 

1864 New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends 

1865 Albert Herbert Brewer, composer. 

1868 Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg," premieres in Munich. 

1873 Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea and Jungle) 

1876 Willem H Keesom, physicist (helium vast). 

1876 Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79. 

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