Historical Events In August - 24

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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1113  On this day in history birth of geoffrey Plantagenet, France, conquered Normandy  

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

1198  On August - 24 birth of king Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)  

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

1358  King John I of Castile (d. 1390) was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1217  On August - 24 eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle  

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 August - 24.  

1542  On this day in history death of gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)  

1572  Death of Gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded on August - 24.