Page 2: Historical Events In September - 09
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1752 Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer 

1753 1st steam engine arrives in US colonies 

1754 William Bligh, nasty ship's captain (HMS Bounty). 

1769 Cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch minister of Justice (1807..42) 

1770 Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist, dies at 73 

1776 Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "United States" 

1776 Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "US" 

1789 William Cranch Bond, US, astronomer (codiscovered Hyperion). 

1803 Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer, dies at 32. 

1809 William Radford, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890 

1810 Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78 

1815 John Singleton Copley, British painter, dies at 77 

1817 Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College. 

1817 Speed Smith Fry, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892. 

1817 Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58. 

1819 Martin Luther Smith, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1866 

1822 Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention 

1825 Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist is born. 

1826 Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907) 

1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina) [NS] 

1830 Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ. 

1832 Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer, dies at 39. 

1834 Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant). 

1839 John Herschel takes the 1st glass plate photograph. 

1839 John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph. 

1840 Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer. 

1841 Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, results in the deaths of 300 

1841 Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63. 

1850 California is recorded as becoming the 31st state admitted to the US. 

1850 California is recorded as becoming the 31st state of the United States. 

1850 New Mexico and Utah become US territories 

1850 Territories of New Mexico and Utah created. 

1850 California is recorded as becoming 31st state 

1850 Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi 

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