Page 2: Historical Events In October - 21
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1662 Henry Lawes, composer, dies at 66. 

1680 Francisco Jose Coutinho, composer 

1687 Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), dies. 

1708 Dutch and English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel) 

1727 Russian and Chinese accord to correct boundaries. 

1751 David Moritz Michael, composer 

1760 Katsushka Hokusai, Japanese painter is born 

1761 Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer/brig general. 

1762 Herman W Daendels, brig-gen/gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1807-11). 

1765 Giovanni Paolo Pannini/Panini, Italian painter/architect, dies at 73 

1767 Francesco Ruggi, composer 

1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and friend of Wordsworth is born 

1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, England, poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner). 

1773 Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect, dies at 78 

1774 inaugural display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America 

1775 Guiseppi Baini, composer 

1790 Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine, Macon France, writer (René). 

1793 Johann Ernst Hartmann, composer, dies at 66 

1797 US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston. 

1798 Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer, dies at 71. 

1803 George Wright, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1865. 

1805 Battle of Trafalgar, Adm Nelson defeats French and Spanish fleet and dies. 

1805 Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar 

1807 Hanri Reber, composer 

1810 Franz Teyber, composer, dies at 52 

1816 The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia 

1822 Levinus Keuchenius, Dutch minister of Colonies (1888-90) 

1823 Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer 

1824 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England) 

1827 Petrus PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer. 

1833 Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and creator of the peace prize that bears his name, is born. 

1833 Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of 'Dynamite' is born 

1833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite and Peace Prizes. 

1839 Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank). 

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