Page 2: Historical Events In March - 26
Friday, 18 July 2025
1726 On March - 26 john Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62
1736 Georg Balthasar Schott, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.
1753 Benjamin Thompson, physicist (Royal Inst of Great Britain, Woburn MA) on this day in history.
1758 Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer on March - 26.
1773 Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant) on March - 26.
1780 On March - 26 the first British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette &Sunday Monitor)
1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor) on this day in history.
1783 On March - 26 johann Baptist Weigl, composer
1790 On March - 26 congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1793 Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France on this day in history.
1793 Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France on March - 26.
1797 On March - 26 james Hutton, geologist, dies
1799 Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine on March - 26.
1804 On March - 26 congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1804 Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase on this day in history.
1806 On this day in history josef Slavik, composer
1808 On March - 26 napoleon announces that France must guard the coast of Spain against Britain, he orders upwards of 70,000 men to cross the Spanish frontier in January, French forces occupy the fortresses of San Sebastian, Pamplona, Figuera, and Barcelona by treachery in February, and by mid-March there are nearly 100,000 French troops in Spain Their commander in chief Joachim Murat occupies Madrid and Carlos IV abdicates in favor of his son Ferdinand, 23
1808 On March - 26 charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
1809 On March - 26 gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer, dies at 68
1812 Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas; about 20,000 die on this day in history.
1812 In Venezuela an earthquake destroys the City of Caracas severe damage. 20,000 killed on March - 26.
1813 Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879 on March - 26.
1817 On this day in history herman Haupt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1819 Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer on March - 26.
1820 On this day in history jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer, dies at 71
1821 On this day in history franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess," premieres in Vienna
1821 Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel) on this day in history.
1824 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" on this day in history.
1827 On March - 26 emanuel Kania, composer
1827 Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56 on this day in history.
1830 On March - 26 the Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1830 Eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar/poet/writer on March - 26.
1831 Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71 on March - 26.
1833 On March - 26 betsy Perk, [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist
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