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Thursday, 19 February 2026
Apr 25 Ground broken for Suez Canal 
Apr 25 Work begins on the Suez Canal, Egypt.
Apr 27 "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard
Apr 27 "S.S. Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard.
Apr 30 Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is inaugural published in literary periodical All the Year Round, continues in weekly installments until Nov 26
Apr 30 Paul Morphy returns from 10-mo chess tour of Europe, retires.
Apr 30 Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Bagrova-vnuka), dies at 67
May 01 Bohuslav Jeremias, composer.
May 02 Eugene D'Harcourt, composer
May 03 Andy Adams, US writer (Log of a Cowboy)
May 04 The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England
May 04 The Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Western Canada and La Banque Nationale incorporated.
May 05 Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53.
May 06 Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies
May 06 Luis Maria Drago, Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist.
May 10 Johan BJFS, archduke of Austria (Firechief and Housewife), dies
May 13 Eugust Enna, composer
May 15 Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903).
May 15 Pierre Curie, French physicist is born.
May 17 Australian Rules Football inaugural 'laws of the game' published
May 19 Nellie Melba, [Heal Mitchell], Australian soprano (Peach Melba).
May 22 Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, author brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice
May 22 Ferdinand II, [Re Bomba], Dutch King of Sicily, dies at 49
May 26 Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life)
May 30 Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist.
May 31 Phila A's organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later
Jun 06 Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day)
Jun 10 Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris, Wood Song)
Jun 11 Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada.
Jun 12 Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered.
Jun 15 Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S. and British/Canadian settlers.
Jun 18 Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer, dies at 65
Jun 21 Henry O Tanner, artist
Jun 22 Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher (are discovered Inst of Music)
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