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 this day in history ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried  

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 August - 24.  

1690  On this day in history job Charnock founds Calcutta India  

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  On this day in history cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer  

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

1724  On August - 24 the birth of George Stubbs, British painter  

1724  Andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1725  Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer on August - 24.  

1733  David Traugott Nicolai, composer on August - 24.  

1751  On this day in history thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch  

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 this day in history.  

1770  Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history james Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)  

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  Washington, D.C. is burned by the British on August - 24.  

1814  British forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks on August - 24.  

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

1816  On August - 24 daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables  

1817  On this day in history aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [OS]  

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

1113  Geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151) was born on this day in history.  

1198  King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249) was born on August - 24.  

1210  Floris IV, Count of Holland was born on August - 24.  

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

1393  Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458) was born on August - 24.  

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

1531  On August - 24 birth of ercole Bottrigari, composer  

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 this day in history.  

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

1542  On August - 24 death of gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)  

1572  On August - 24 death of gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded