Page 3: Historical Events In June - 24
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1794 Bowdoin College is founded 

1795 US and Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty 

1797 John Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx. 

1803 George James Webb, composer 

1803 Matthew Thornton, Irish/US physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 88 

1804 Stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botanist. 

1806 English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires 

1808 Anna Caroline Oury, composer. 

1811 John Archibald Campbell, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1889. 

1813 Battle of Beaver Dam-British and Indian forces defeat US forces 

1813 Henry Ward Beecher, Litchfield Ct, clergyman/orator (Independent). 

1817 The inaugural coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast 

1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast 

1817 Thomas McKean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 83 

1820 Henry Rootes Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 

1821 Battle of Carabobo; Bol¡var defeats royalists outside of Caracas 

1821 Battle of Carabobo; BolÃvar defeats royalists outside of Caracas 

1822 Birkett Davenport Fry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891. 

1832 Edward Harland, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1915 

1838 Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism). 

1839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founded Swift and Co 

1840 Louis Brassin, composer. 

1841 Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx 

1842 Ambrose Bierce, US, satirist (Devil's Dictionary) 

1843 Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy. 

1846 Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished 

1847 Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer. 

1848 Brooks Adams, US philosopher (Theory of Social Revolutions) 

1850 Horatio Herbert Kitchener, England, original Order of Merit member. 

1852 J R Hind discovers asteroid #18 Melpomene 

1852 Victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister (1918). 

1853 Gadsden Purchase 29670-square-mile (76800 square km) from Mexico (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce 

1859 Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria 

1861 Tennessee is recorded as becoming 11th ( and last) state to secede from US. 

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