Page 2: Historical Events In March - 26
Thursday, 10 July 2025
1726 On March - 26 john Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62
1736 Georg Balthasar Schott, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.
1753 Benjamin Thompson, physicist (Royal Inst of Great Britain, Woburn MA) on March - 26.
1758 Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer on this day in history.
1773 Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant) on this day in history.
1780 The first British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette &Sunday Monitor) on March - 26.
1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor) on this day in history.
1783 Johann Baptist Weigl, composer on this day in history.
1790 Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency on this day in history.
1793 On March - 26 pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
1793 On March - 26 pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
1797 On March - 26 james Hutton, geologist, dies
1799 Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine on this day in history.
1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana on March - 26.
1804 On this day in history territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase
1806 Josef Slavik, composer on this day in history.
1808 On this day in history napoleon announces that France must guard the coast of Spain against Britain, he orders upwards of 70,000 men to cross the Spanish frontier in January, French forces occupy the fortresses of San Sebastian, Pamplona, Figuera, and Barcelona by treachery in February, and by mid-March there are nearly 100,000 French troops in Spain Their commander in chief Joachim Murat occupies Madrid and Carlos IV abdicates in favor of his son Ferdinand, 23
1808 On this day in history charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
1809 On March - 26 gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer, dies at 68
1812 Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas; about 20,000 die on March - 26.
1812 In Venezuela an earthquake destroys the City of Caracas severe damage. 20,000 killed on this day in history.
1813 Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879 on this day in history.
1817 On March - 26 herman Haupt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1819 On this day in history francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer
1820 On this day in history jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer, dies at 71
1821 On March - 26 franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess," premieres in Vienna
1821 Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel) on March - 26.
1824 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" on March - 26.
1827 Emanuel Kania, composer on this day in history.
1827 Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56 on this day in history.
1830 The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York on March - 26.
1830 On March - 26 eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar/poet/writer
1831 Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71 on this day in history.
1833 On March - 26 betsy Perk, [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist
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