Historical Events In August - 24

1669  On August - 24 alessandro Marcello, composer   

1680  On this day in history death of Colonel (Thomas) Blood, Irish adventurer who stole Crown Jewels from Tower of London in 1671.   

1680  On August - 24 ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried   

1682  On this day in history duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn   

1683  On this day in history meinrad Spiess, composer   

1690  Calcutta, India, is founded by the British East India Company on August - 24.   

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  On August - 24 job Charnock founds Calcutta India   

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

1704  Sea battle at Malaga on this day in history.   

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

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  On August - 24 david Traugott Nicolai, composer   

1751  Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch on August - 24.   

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  On this day in history thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies   

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

1787  On August - 24 wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526   

1787  James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea) on August - 24.   

1789  The birth of James Wedell, Scottish Antarctic explorer on this day in history.   

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  Washington, D.C. is burned by the British on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1817  On August - 24 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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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 this day in history birth of floris IV, Count of Holland   

1358  On this day in history birth of king John I of Castile (d. 1390)   

1393  On August - 24 birth of arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)   

1420  Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt) was born on this day in history.   

1531  Ercole Bottrigari, composer was born on August - 24.   

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

1103  On this day in history magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies   

1217  On August - 24 eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle   

1313  Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies on this day in history.   

1371  Death of Eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated on August - 24.   

1540  On this day in history 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.