Page 2: Historical Events In August - 24

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 August - 24.   

1680  On this day in history ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried   

1682  Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn on August - 24.   

1683  Meinrad Spiess, composer on August - 24.   

1690  On this day in history calcutta, India, is founded by the British East India Company.   

1690  Job Charnock establishes an English trading post in West Bengal, considered the official founding of India's largest city, Calcutta on this day in history.   

1690  Job Charnock founds Calcutta India on this day in history.   

1694  Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25] on this day in history.   

1704  On August - 24 sea battle at Malaga   

1712  On August - 24 cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer   

1712  On this day in history thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54   

1724  The birth of George Stubbs, British painter on this day in history.   

1724  On this day in history andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75   

1725  Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer on August - 24.   

1733  On August - 24 david Traugott Nicolai, composer   

1751  Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch on this day in history.   

1759  On August - 24 william Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade   

1759  Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44 on this day in history.   

1770  Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies on this day in history.   

1772  On August - 24 willem I Frederik, grand duke of Luxembourg/king of Neth (1814-40)   

1787  Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526 on August - 24.   

1787  On this day in history james Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)   

1789  On August - 24 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 August - 24 benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

1814  On August - 24 british sack Washington, DC, White House burned   

1814  Washington, D.C. is burned by the British on August - 24.   

1814  On August - 24 british forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks   

1816  The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri on this day in history.   

1816  On August - 24 daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables   

1817  Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [OS] on August - 24.   

1820  On this day in history constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.   

1820  On this day in history jacopo Tomadini, composer   

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1113  Geoffrey Plantagenet, France, conquered Normandy was born on August - 24.   

1113  Geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151) was born on August - 24.   

1198  On this day in history birth of king Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)   

1210  On this day in history birth of floris IV, Count of Holland   

1358  King John I of Castile (d. 1390) was born on this day in history.   

1393  On this day in history birth of arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)   

1420  On this day in history birth of albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt)   

1531  Ercole Bottrigari, composer was born on this day in history.   

0079  Death of Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23) on August - 24.   

1103  Magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies on this day in history.   

1217  Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle on this day in history.   

1313  On August - 24 henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies   

1371  On August - 24 death of eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated   

1540  Death of Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503) on this day in history.   

1542  Death of Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483) on August - 24.   

1572  Death of Gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded on August - 24.