Page 2: Historical Events In November - 18
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1776 Hessians capture Fort Lee, NJ 

1776 Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ 

1781 Felice Blangini, composer. 

1786 Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor. 

1787 1st Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston 

1787 Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/feminist. 

1793 Louvre officially opens in Paris. 

1796 Catharina II, "The Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67. 

1803 Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French. 

1803 Cornelius Broere, Dutch priest/poet. 

1804 Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape 

1805 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset Maine, organizes. 

1808 Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer 

1810 Asa Gray, Sauquoit NY, botanist (Flora of North America) 

1812 Jesse Johnson Finley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1904. 

1820 US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer discovers Antarctica 

1820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer 

1822 Anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66 

1824 Franz Sigel, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902 

1827 Wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24. 

1833 Netherlands and Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven 

1835 -20] Charles Darwin travels to Tahiti 

1835 Americus Vespucius Rice, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1904. 

1836 William Schwenck Gilbert, London, composer (Gilbert and Sullivan). 

1839 August A Kundt, German physicist (sound vibration, test of Kundt). 

1841 Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77. 

1845 John F Mellaerts, Flemish social worker (1st Belgian farm gilde). 

1846 Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician. 

1851 Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80. 

1852 State funeral of duke of Wellington (London) 

1852 Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60 

1860 Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer/1st premier of Poland (1919-20) 

1863 Richard Dehmel, writer 

1865 In this year, Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" 

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