Page 2: Historical Events In August - 24

1669  On August - 24 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 August - 24.   

1682  On this day in history duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn   

1683  Meinrad Spiess, composer on this day in history.   

1690  On August - 24 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  On August - 24 job Charnock founds Calcutta India   

1694  On August - 24 theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25]   

1704  On this day in history sea battle at Malaga   

1712  On August - 24 cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer   

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  Andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75 on August - 24.   

1725  Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer on August - 24.   

1733  On this day in history david Traugott Nicolai, composer   

1751  Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch on this day in history.   

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 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 this day in history.   

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

1789  The birth of James Wedell, Scottish Antarctic explorer on this day in history.   

1801  On August - 24 jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68   

1808  On this day in history benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

1814  On August - 24 british sack Washington, DC, White House burned   

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  On this day in history daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables   

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 August - 24.   

1820  Jacopo Tomadini, composer on August - 24.   

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1113  Geoffrey Plantagenet, France, conquered Normandy was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history 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  On August - 24 birth of albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt)   

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  On August - 24 magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies   

1217  Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle on this day in history.   

1313  Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies on this day in history.   

1371  On this day in history death of eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated   

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.