Page 2: Historical Events In March - 14
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1768 Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer, dies at 58 

1782 Thomas Hart Benton, (rep), "Old Bullion". 

1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin. 

1794 Eli Whitney patents cotton gin 

1795 Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer. 

1800 Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII. 

1800 James Bogardus, US inventor/builder (made cast-iron buildings) 

1801 Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer, dies at 63. 

1803 F G Klopstock, writer 

1803 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, dies at 78 

1804 Johann Strauss, Austrian composer is born. 

1804 Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist/comp (Radetzky March). 

1808 Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brig General (Union volunteers) 

1811 August Henry Fitzroy, English premier (1768-70), dies at 75. 

1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812. 

1815 Josephine Lang, composer 

1816 Montgomery Dent Corse, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 

1820 Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78). 

1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (New York) 

1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY). 

1821 Jens Worsaae, Denmark, archaeologist. 

1823 Roswell Sabine Ripley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 

1826 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama. 

1826 William Fisk Sherwin, composer 

1829 Charles Charlesworth, England, (dies at 7 of old age). 

1831 Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer. 

1833 John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General (Confederate Army) 

1835 Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars) [or March 4] 

1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia 

1837 Charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification). 

1840 Jose Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey," premieres in Madrid. 

1843 Boston conducts its inaugural town meeting (Faneuil Hall). 

1843 James Douglas lands at Clover Point on Vancouver Island with 15 men to build new Hudson's Bay Company Fort Camosun (later Victoria); moving HBC trade headquarters from Fort Vancouver (now in Washington State) 

1843 Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall). 

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