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Thursday, 19 February 2026
Oct 25 Merchant vessel Royal Charter runs aground at Liverpool, 459 die 
Oct 25 Stephanie H [Lapidoth-]Swarth, Dutch author (Lonely Flowers).
Oct 26 Arthur Friedheim, composer
Oct 26 The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead
Oct 29 Charles Ebbets, (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn).
Oct 29 Spain declares war on Morocco.
Nov 01 Charles Brantley Aycock, (Gov-NC)
Nov 01 The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the inaugural time. Its inaugural-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions
Nov 04 Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer
Nov 07 Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer, dies at 61
Nov 12 Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name.
Nov 12 Jules Leotard performs inaugural Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris). He also designed the garment that bears his name.
Nov 16 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza," premieres in Moscow
Nov 17 Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup, composer
Nov 19 Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody)
Nov 22 Ludwig "Louis" Spohr, German violinist/composer (Faust), dies at 75
Nov 23 Billy the Kid William Bonney or Henry McCarty the outlawwas born
Nov 23 Billy The Kid, Born William Bonny; legendary US outlaw is born
Nov 23 Billy the Kid, [William H Bonney], NYC, criminal.
Nov 24 In this year, Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species".
Nov 26 Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical All the Year Round.
Nov 28 Washington Irving, US author (Geoffrey Crayon, gent), dies.
Nov 30 Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer
Dec 02 Abolitionist John Brown is hanged for his part in a raid on Harper's Ferry, WV.
Dec 02 Georges Seurat, France, painter/pointillist (Grande Jatte).
Dec 02 Georges Seurat, French painter is born.
Dec 02 John Brown, US abolitionist (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59
Dec 05 Dion Boucicault's "Octaroon," premieres in NYC.
Dec 05 Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82.
Dec 09 Algernon Ashton, composer.
Dec 12 Edward Bradley, horse owner (1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners).
Dec 12 inaugural train operated over the Victoria Railway Bridge, Montreal. The inaugural passenger train crossed the structure on December 17, 1859 and it was formally opened by the Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VII, on August 25, 1860. The original structure was a single-track iron tubular bridge. The tube, when inaugural constructed, was entirely enclosed and there were ventilation problems. Later a slit 20" wide was cut in the tube the full length of the bridge to permit the emission of smoke.
Dec 15 GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun.
Dec 15 Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, physician/linguist (Esperanto)
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