Historical Events In August - 24

1669  On August - 24 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  On this day in history ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried  

1682  Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn on this day in history.  

1683  On August - 24 meinrad Spiess, composer  

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 August - 24.  

1694  Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25] on August - 24.  

1704  On August - 24 sea battle at Malaga  

1712  Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer on this day in history.  

1712  Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.  

1724  The birth of George Stubbs, British painter on August - 24.  

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

1725  Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer on this day in history.  

1733  David Traugott Nicolai, composer on August - 24.  

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  On August - 24 ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44  

1770  On August - 24 thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies  

1772  Willem I Frederik, grand duke of Luxembourg/king of Neth (1814-40) on this day in history.  

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

1787  James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea) on this day in history.  

1789  On this day in history the birth of James Wedell, Scottish Antarctic explorer  

1801  Jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1808  On this day in history benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army)  

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

1814  On August - 24 washington, D.C. is burned by the British.  

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  Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables on August - 24.  

1817  Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [OS] on this day in history.  

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

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  On August - 24 birth of geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)  

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

1210  On August - 24 birth of floris IV, Count of Holland  

1358  On August - 24 birth of king John I of Castile (d. 1390)  

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

1420  On August - 24 birth of albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt)  

1531  On this day in history birth of ercole Bottrigari, composer  

0079  Death of Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23) on this day in history.  

1103  On August - 24 magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies  

1217  Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle on August - 24.  

1313  Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies on August - 24.  

1371  On this day in history death of eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated  

1540  On August - 24 death of girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)  

1542  Death of Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483) on this day in history.  

1572  Death of Gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded on this day in history.