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Historical Events In August - 24

Sunday, 24 September 2023

1669  On this day in history alessandro Marcello, composer  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1680  Death of Colonel (Thomas) Blood, Irish adventurer who stole Crown Jewels from Tower of London in 1671 on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1680  On this day in history ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1682  On this day in history duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1683  Meinrad Spiess, composer on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1690  Calcutta, India, is founded by the British East India Company on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1690  Job Charnock founds Calcutta India on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1694  Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25] on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1704  Sea battle at Malaga on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1712  Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1712  Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54 on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1724  On this day in history the birth of George Stubbs, British painter  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1724  On August - 24 andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1725  Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1733  On August - 24 david Traugott Nicolai, composer  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1751  Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1759  On August - 24 william Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1759  On this day in history ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1770  Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1772  On this day in history willem I Frederik, grand duke of Luxembourg/king of Neth (1814-40)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1787  Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526 on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1787  James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea) on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1789  On August - 24 the birth of James Wedell, Scottish Antarctic explorer  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1801  On August - 24 jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1808  On August - 24 benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1814  British sack Washington, DC, White House burned on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1814  On this day in history washington, D.C. is burned by the British.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1814  On August - 24 british forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1816  On August - 24 the Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1816  Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1817  On this day in history aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [OS]  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1820  Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1820  On this day in history jacopo Tomadini, composer  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Birthdays In August - 24

Famous People Born On This Day In History

1113  On this day in history birth of geoffrey Plantagenet, France, conquered Normandy  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1113  On August - 24 birth of geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1198  On August - 24 birth of king Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1210  Floris IV, Count of Holland was born on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1358  King John I of Castile (d. 1390) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1393  On August - 24 birth of arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1420  Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt) was born on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1531  On this day in history birth of ercole Bottrigari, composer  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In August - 24

Famous People Died On This Day In History

0079  Death of Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1103  On August - 24 magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1217  On August - 24 eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1313  Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1371  On this day in history death of eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1540  Death of Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503) on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1542  On this day in history death of gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1572  Death of Gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded on August - 24.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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