Historical Events In August - 24

1669  Alessandro Marcello, composer on this day in history.  

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  Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn on August - 24.  

1683  On August - 24 meinrad Spiess, composer  

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

1690  On August - 24 job Charnock establishes an English trading post in West Bengal, considered the official founding of India's largest city, Calcutta.  

1690  On this day in history job Charnock founds Calcutta India  

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 August - 24.  

1712  Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54 on August - 24.  

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

1724  On August - 24 andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75  

1725  Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer on August - 24.  

1733  David Traugott Nicolai, composer on August - 24.  

1751  On August - 24 thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch  

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 this day in history.  

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

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

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  On August - 24 the birth of James Wedell, Scottish Antarctic explorer  

1801  Jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1808  Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army) on this day in history.  

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

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 this day in history the Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.  

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

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

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 this day in history birth of geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)  

1198  King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249) was born on this day in history.  

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

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 August - 24.  

1531  On this day in history birth of ercole Bottrigari, composer  

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

1103  Magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies on this day in history.  

1217  Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle on August - 24.  

1313  On this day in history 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  Death of Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503) on this day in history.  

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 August - 24.