Historical Events In August - 24
Monday, 16 May 2022
1669 On this day in history alessandro Marcello, composer
1680 Death of Colonel (Thomas) Blood, Irish adventurer who stole Crown Jewels from Tower of London in 1671 on this day in history.
1680 Ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried on August - 24.
1682 Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn on this day in history.
1683 On this day in history meinrad Spiess, composer
1690 Calcutta, India, is founded by the British East India Company on August - 24.
1690 On August - 24 job Charnock establishes an English trading post in West Bengal, considered the official founding of India's largest city, Calcutta.
1690 Job Charnock founds Calcutta India on this day in history.
1694 On this day in history theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25]
1704 Sea battle at Malaga on August - 24.
1712 Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer on this day in history.
1712 On August - 24 thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54
1724 The birth of George Stubbs, British painter on this day in history.
1724 On August - 24 andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75
1725 On August - 24 johann Balthasar Kehl, composer
1733 David Traugott Nicolai, composer on this day in history.
1751 On this day in history thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
1759 William Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade on August - 24.
1759 Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44 on August - 24.
1770 Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies on August - 24.
1772 Willem I Frederik, grand duke of Luxembourg/king of Neth (1814-40) on this day in history.
1787 On this day in history wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526
1787 On this day in history james Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)
1789 On this day in history the birth of James Wedell, Scottish Antarctic explorer
1801 On August - 24 jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68
1808 On this day in history benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1814 On this day in history british sack Washington, DC, White House burned
1814 Washington, D.C. is burned by the British on this day in history.
1814 British forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks on this day in history.
1816 On this day in history the Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
1816 Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables on August - 24.
1817 On this day in history aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [OS]
1820 Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century on this day in history.
1820 Jacopo Tomadini, composer on August - 24.
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