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Monday, 16 March 2026
May 07 Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, results in the deaths of 317 
May 07 Tornado strikes Natchez MS, results in the deaths of 317
May 08 Alexander Wolcott patents Photographic Process
May 11 Filippo Capocci, composer.
May 13 Alphonse Daudet, writer
May 17 Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57
May 20 York Minster was badly damaged by fire.
May 21 New Zealand became a British colony.
May 21 NZ became a British colony
May 22 The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
May 24 Frederick Walker, painter.
May 27 Niccolo Paganini, composer/violinist, dies at 57
May 29 Hans Makart, Austrian painter (Plague in Florenz)
May 30 Dominique J de Eerens, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59.
Jun 02 Thomas Hardy, England, poet/novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd).
Jun 02 Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet is born
Jun 03 Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Morning Twilight)
Jun 06 John Stainer, composer.
Jun 07 Charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belgium/Emperor of Mexico (1864-67)
Jun 07 Frederik Willem III, King of Prussia (1797-1840), dies at 69.
Jun 10 Henry Morton Stanley, US journalist and explorer is born
Jun 10 Thomas Fentress Toon, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902.
Jun 11 Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter/etser.
Jun 12 Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands.
Jun 19 John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial/orangist, dies at 50
Jun 20 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph.
Jun 22 Ernest Debes, German cartographer (Baedeker).
Jun 24 Louis Brassin, composer
Jun 25 Leopold count of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician, dies at 82.
Jun 29 Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano, dies at 65
Jul 01 Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer.
Jul 04 James McGranahan, composer.
Jul 04 The Cunard Line's 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the inaugural transatlantic crossing with a scheduled end.
Jul 06 Christian Hebbel's "Judith," premieres in Berlin
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