Page 3: Historical Events In May - 17
Saturday, 21 February 2026
1804 Lewis and Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase. 

1804 Ottho G Heldring, Dutch vicar/reformer (Heldring Institutions) 

1808 Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer 

1809 Papal States annexed by France. 

1809 Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies. 

1812 Joseph Warren Revere, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1880. 

1814 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (National Day) 

1814 Norwegian constitution passed by constituent assembly at Eidsvoll 

1814 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day). 

1819 Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer 

1823 Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, contralto/composer. 

1836 Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer (Helium)/founder (Nature magazine) 

1837 Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly). 

1840 Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57 

1845 Rubber band patents. 

1846 Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax. 

1846 Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle 

1848 Premier Earl Schimmelpenninck steps down 

1849 Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis MO. 

1849 Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri 

1850 Antonio Scontrino, composer. 

1851 Saint John New Brunswick, the launch of the sailing ship Marco Polo; reputed to be the quickest ship in the world. 

1851 Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31 

1853 Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election 

1859 Australian Rules Football inaugural 'laws of the game' published 

1860 German football club TSV 1860 München is founded 

1862 Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities. 

1863 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi 

1863 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS 

1864 Battle of Adairsville GA, Union forces Confederates to retreat 

1864 Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat. 

1864 N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59. 

1865 The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established 

1866 Erik Satie, French composer is born 

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