Page 2: Historical Events In November - 23
Sunday, 22 February 2026
1760 Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist (Tribun du Peuple). 

1765 People of Frederick County MD refuse to pay England's Stamp tax. 

1765 Thomas Attwood, composer 

1783 Annapolis Maryland, is recorded as becoming US capital (until June 1784). 

1785 Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch general of the Jesuits (1829-53). 

1787 Anton Schweitzer, composer, dies at 52. 

1794 Joan F Van Oordt, vicar (Groninger direction) 

1797 Gabor Matray, composer 

1800 Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author (Povesti) 

1804 Franklin Pierce, Hillsboro NH, (D) 14th Pres (1853-1857) 

1809 Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers). 

1814 Elbridge Gerry, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 70. 

1815 William Dennison, postmaster/general (Union), died in 1882. 

1819 Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1901. 

1820 John Willis Ellis, Governor (Confederacy) died in 1861 

1821 Charles Meryon, British/French etcher. 

1826 Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuela publisher on Curacao. 

1830 Kaspar CE Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austria sculptor 

1832 French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium 

1834 Hector Berlioz's "Harold in Italy," premieres. 

1835 Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine, Troy, NY. 

1835 The horseshoe manufacturing machine was patented by Henry Burden of Troy, New York. 

1835 Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy NY) 

1837 John van der Waals, Hol, physicist (Nobel 1910, Liquid and Gas States) 

1842 James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (1st England Test captain) 

1843 Josef Sucher, composer 

1844 Independence of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark 

1848 Female Medical Educational Society founded in Boston. 

1848 Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston. 

1848 Alfred Julius Becher, composer, dies at 45. 

1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt leads to Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m). 

1853 Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, composer, dies at 67 

1858 Frank Hearne, cricketer (bro of George and Alec, Eng and S Afr) 

1859 Billy the Kid William Bonney or Henry McCarty the outlawwas born. 

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