Historical Events In August - 24

1669  On this day in history alessandro Marcello, composer  

1680  On August - 24 death of Colonel (Thomas) Blood, Irish adventurer who stole Crown Jewels from Tower of London in 1671.  

1680  Ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried on this day in history.  

1682  On August - 24 duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn  

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  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.  

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

1712  On August - 24 thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54  

1724  On this day in history the birth of George Stubbs, British painter  

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 August - 24.  

1759  On this day in history 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 August - 24.  

1770  Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies on August - 24.  

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

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  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 August - 24.  

1808  On August - 24 benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army)  

1814  British sack Washington, DC, White House burned on this day in history.  

1814  Washington, D.C. is burned by the British on this day in history.  

1814  On this day in history 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  On this day in history constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.  

1820  Jacopo Tomadini, composer on August - 24.  

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1113  On this day in history birth of geoffrey Plantagenet, France, conquered Normandy  

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

1198  On August - 24 birth of king Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)  

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

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

1393  Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458) was born on this day in history.  

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

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

0079  On this day in history death of pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)  

1103  On this day in history 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  Death of Eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated on this day in history.  

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 August - 24.  

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