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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1710 Antonius Matthaeus, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 74. 
1716 Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands
1726 Thomas Pennant, British naturalist.
1735 Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer
1749 General fast because of drought in MA.
1767 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late-barok composer, dies at 86
1785 Pierre Talon, composer, dies at 63
1788 The Virginia colony including Jamestown, the inaugural permanent English settlement in North America, entered the United States of America as the tenth state
1788 Virginia is recorded as becoming 10th state to ratify US constitution
1794 French troops occupy Charleroi
1796 Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer.
1798 US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1813 William Hugh Keim, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1822 Ernst T Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer, dies at 46.
1823 James Dunwody Bulloch, Capt (Confederate Navy), died in 1901.
1834 Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published
1835 inaugural building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
1835 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF).
1840 Leopold count of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician, dies at 82.
1844 John Tyler took Julia Gardiner as his bride, thus becoming the inaugural U.S. President to marry while in office
1858 Georges Courteline, [Moineaux], French playwright
1860 Gustave Charpentier, French composer (opera Louise)
1861 Western Virginia campaign.
1862 Day 1 of the 7 Days begins with fighting at Oak Grove.
1862 Battle of Oak Grove, VA (Orchard, Henrico, French's Field) (Kings's Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7 Days
1862 Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer.
1863 In this year, US General George Meade adopts in place of General Hooker to be more aggressive
1864 Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines
1864 Horse tramway at the Hague, opens.
1864 Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist/chemist (Nobel 1920).
1865 Robert Henri, US painter, leader of Ashcan school.
1867 Barbed wire patented.
1867 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
1868 FL, AL, LA, GA, NC and SC readmitted to US.
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