Page 2: Historical Events In 1817
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Feb 22 Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist/composer/conductor 


Feb 23 George Watts, London, painter. 


Feb 28 James Craig, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1888. 


Mar 01 Luigi Gatti, composer, dies at 77. 


Mar 02 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn 


Mar 02 Janos Arany, Hungary, epic poet (Toldi, Death of King Buda). 


Mar 03 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi. 


Mar 05 Austen H Layard, British archaeologist/diplomat. 


Mar 08 The New York Stock Exchange is founded. 


Mar 13 Matej Sojka, composer, dies at 77. 


Mar 18 Johann Jakob Walder, composer, dies at 67 


Mar 19 Lewis Henry Little, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862. 


Mar 22 Braxton Bragg, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1876 


Mar 24 Aime Maillart, composer 


Mar 25 Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians 


Mar 26 Herman Haupt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905. 


Mar 28 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer. 


Mar 29 Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet 


Apr 01 Johannes J van Oosterzee, Dutch theologist. 


Apr 02 Teodulo Mabellini, composer 


Apr 04 John Wilson Sprague, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1893 


Apr 04 Prince d'Essing, dies 


Apr 06 Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer, dies at 78 


Apr 12 Charles Messier, "comet ferret" and catalogs famous "M objects,", dies. 


Apr 13 Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian/archivist (Brussels) 


Apr 15 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn) 


Apr 17 1st US school for deaf (Hartford, Conn) 


Apr 17 inaugural US school for the deaf (Hartford, Conn). 


Apr 18 George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe). 


Apr 19 John Philip, painter 


Apr 22 Curacao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight 


May 02 Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer. 


May 05 George Washington Julian, MC (Union), died in 1899 


May 15 Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority, under T Matulesia. 


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