Page 2: Historical Events In August - 24

1669  On August - 24 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  Ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried on August - 24.   

1682  Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn on August - 24.   

1683  On this day in history meinrad Spiess, composer   

1690  On August - 24 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  On this day in history theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25]   

1704  On August - 24 sea battle at Malaga   

1712  Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer on this day in history.   

1712  On August - 24 thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54   

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

1724  On this day in history andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75   

1725  Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer on this day in history.   

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 August - 24.   

1770  On this day in history thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies   

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 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  Jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68 on August - 24.   

1808  On August - 24 benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

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

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  The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri on August - 24.   

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  Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century on August - 24.   

1820  On August - 24 jacopo Tomadini, composer   

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

1113  On August - 24 birth of geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)   

1198  On this day in history birth of king Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)   

1210  On this day in history birth of floris IV, Count of Holland   

1358  King John I of Castile (d. 1390) was born on August - 24.   

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

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  On this day in history death of pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)   

1103  On this day in history 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  On this day in history henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies   

1371  On August - 24 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 this day in history.