Page 2: Historical Events In August - 24

1669  Alessandro Marcello, composer on August - 24.   

1680  On this day in history 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  Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn on this day in history.   

1683  On this day in history meinrad Spiess, composer   

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

1690  On this day in history 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 August - 24.   

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

1772  Willem I Frederik, grand duke of Luxembourg/king of Neth (1814-40) on August - 24.   

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

1787  On August - 24 james Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)   

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

1801  On this day in history jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68   

1808  Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army) on August - 24.   

1814  On this day in history british sack Washington, DC, White House burned   

1814  On this day in history washington, D.C. is burned by the British.   

1814  On this day in history british forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks   

1816  On August - 24 the Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.   

1816  Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables on August - 24.   

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

1820  On August - 24 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 this day in history.   

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

1210  Floris IV, Count of Holland was born on this day in history.   

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  Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt) was born on August - 24.   

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 this day in history eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle   

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

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

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  On this day in history death of gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded