Page 2: Historical Events In October - 26
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1740 Ernest Louis Muller, composer 

1749 Georgia Colony reverses itself and rules slavery is legal 

1749 Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French composer/organist, dies at 72. 

1756 Johann Theodor Romhild, composer, dies at 72 

1758 Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer. 

1759 Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader/min of Justice 

1774 The inaugural Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

1774 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia. 

1776 Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution. 

1787 "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution. 

1789 Joseph Mayseder, composer 

1791 Charles Sprague, Boston, banker/poet (Curiosity) 

1795 Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and US is signed, establishing southern boundary of US and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi. 

1795 Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer 

1800 Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian general-fieldmarshal. 

1804 Lorenzo Thomas, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1875. 

1810 US annexes western Florida 

1813 Henry Thomas Smart, composer. 

1814 British governor-general of India declares war on Gurkhas of Nepal. 

1818 Stefano Golinelli, composer. 

1822 King Willem I obligates inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language 

1823 Karl Weinhold, German sociologist. 

1823 Josef Preindl, composer, dies at 67 

1824 Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brig General (Confederate Army) 

1825 The Erie Canal, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River in upstate New York, opens. 

1825 Erie Canal between Hudson River and Lake Erie opened. 

1830 Belgian rebels occupy Antwerp. 

1830 Polibo Fumagalli, composer 

1837 James Lawlor Kiernan, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1869. 

1843 Vasili V Vereshchagin, Russian painter (War and Peace) 

1845 Hendrick Waelput, Flemish composer/conductor (Forest, Stella) 

1848 Vissarion G Belinski, Russian literature critic, dies. 

1854 August T C Kiehl, Dutch actor (Pearl of Zaandam) 

1855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals (Post Cereals) 

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