Historical Events In August - 24
Sunday, 24 September 2023
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 On this day in history duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1683 Meinrad Spiess, composer on August - 24.
1690 Calcutta, India, is founded by the British East India Company on this day in history.
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 Sea battle at Malaga on this day in history.
1712 Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer on August - 24.
1712 Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54 on August - 24.
1724 On this day in history the birth of George Stubbs, British painter
1724 On August - 24 andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75
1725 Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer on this day in history.
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 On this day in history ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44
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 Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526 on August - 24.
1787 James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea) on August - 24.
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 British sack Washington, DC, White House burned on August - 24.
1814 On this day in history washington, D.C. is burned by the British.
1814 On August - 24 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 On this day in history 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 On this day in history jacopo Tomadini, composer
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