Page 2: Historical Events In November - 19
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1753 Stanislas Champein, composer 

1761 Joseph Supries, composer. 

1770 Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor (Dying Lion). 

1785 Bernard de Bury, composer, dies at 65. 

1794 Jay Treaty, inaugural US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain. 

1794 Jakobinen Club forms in Paris. 

1795 Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 62 

1796 Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer 

1798 Theobald W Tone, Irish nationalist, dies. 

1804 Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, Italian opera composer, dies at 75 

1805 Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st European Americans to cross continent. 

1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat (built Suez Canal). 

1810 August Willich, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878 

1811 John Ancrum Winslow, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1873 

1816 Warsaw University is established 

1824 Storm leads to St Petersburg flood, killing 10000. 

1825 Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer, dies at 34. 

1827 Isaac Munroe St John, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1880 

1828 Franz P Schubert, Austria composer (That Schone Mullerin), dies at 31 

1831 James A Garfield, Ohio, gen/(R) 20th Pres (March 4-Sept 19, 1881). 

1833 Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans). 

1834 Georg H Quincke, German physicist (test of Quincke). 

1835 Fitzhugh Lee, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905. 

1837 Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens 

1846 Emile C Wauters, Belgium, painter (Van der Goes in the Red Monastery) 

1850 Alfred Tennyson is recorded as becoming England's Poet Laureate until his death in 1892 

1850 Lord Tennyson is recorded as becoming British poet laureate 

1854 Alberich Zwyssig, composer, dies at 46 

1855 Billy Bates, cricketer (England all-rounder 1882-87, hat-trick 1883). 

1859 Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody) 

1861 Julia Ward Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper 

1863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score and7 years..." 

1863 US President Abraham Lincoln, delivers the famous 'Gettysburg' address 

1863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score and 7 years...". 

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