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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Sep 24 Henry, 1st viscount Hardinge of Lahore, gov-gen of India, dies 
Sep 28 Edward Herbert Thompson, Mass, archaeologist (Mayan civilization)
Sep 30 Andrejs Jurjans, composer
Oct 07 Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book and newspapers.
Oct 08 Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower Brit flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War
Oct 10 Michal Wielhorski, composer, dies at 67
Oct 15 R G Nivelle, French military man
Oct 19 James Kelly and Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne.
Oct 20 Arnhem-Oberhausen railway in Netherlands opens.
Oct 24 Constitution of South Australia adopted
Oct 27 The Grand Trunk Railway opens its broad gauge line throughout between Montreal and Toronto. It was opened in sections as follows Montreal to Brockville - November 19, 1855. Oshawa to Toronto - August 11, 1856. Brockville to Oshawa - October 27, 1856. The inaugural through train, consisting of 3 inaugural class and 3 second class coaches, ran from Montreal (Point St. Charles) to Toronto (Don Station) and a similar train made the journey in the opposite direction.Departure was at 07 00 from Montreal and 07 30 from Toronto. The trains passed in the vicinity of Kingston Junction where a stop of 30 minutes occurred for lunch.
Oct 27 The Grand Trunk Railway opens its broad gauge line throughout between Montreal and Toronto. It was opened in sections as follows: Montreal to Brockville - November 19, 1855. Oshawa to Toronto - August 11, 1856. Brockville to Oshawa - October 27, 1856. The inaugural through train, consisting of 3 inaugural class and 3 second class coaches, ran from Montreal (Point St. Charles) to Toronto (Don Station) and a similar train made the journey in the opposite direction.Departure was at 07:00 from Montreal and 07:30 from Toronto. The trains passed in the vicinity of Kingston Junction where a stop of 30 minutes occurred for lunch.
Oct 28 Franz Xavier Arens, composer
Oct 29 Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68
Nov 03 A British fleet bombs Canton
Nov 04 James Buchanan elected US president.
Nov 06 Nicholas Nikolajevitsj, ruler of Russia
Nov 07 Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin, Vilna, tied for chess 1st place (1878).
Nov 13 Louis D Brandeis, Mass, 68th Supreme Court Justice (1916-39).
Nov 16 Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens.
Nov 17 On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase
Nov 17 William Knyvett, composer, dies at 77
Nov 20 CDR Andrew H. Foote lands at Canton, China, with 287 Sailors and Marines to stop attacks by Chinese on U.S. military and civilians.
Nov 20 Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 81.
Nov 22 Heber J Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th pres of Mormon church
Nov 25 Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev, Russia, composer (Oresteia)
Nov 28 Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer
Nov 29 Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor/premier Prussia.
Dec 02 Robert Kajanus, composer.
Dec 09 The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
Dec 11 Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist
Dec 18 Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron (Nobel 1906)
Dec 22 Frank Kellogg, Sec of State (1925-29), try to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
Dec 27 Andre Gedalge, composer
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