Top Historical Events That Happened on August 24

1821  New Mexico gains its independence from Spain.   

1821  Emmanuele Muzio, composer.   

1826  Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens.   

1827  Walter Husted Stevens, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1867   

1828  Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea.   

1828  George Hume "Maryland" Steuart, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

1831  John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle   

1833  HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina.   

1833  Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist, dies at 65   

1837  Theodore Dubois, composer.   

1839  Eduard Napravnik, composer.   

1840  Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer, dies at 89   

1841  Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer, dies at 36   

1842  Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market)   

1847  Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"   

1853  The inaugural potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY)   

1853  1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs NY)   

1854  National emigration convention meets in Cleveland   

1854  Nikolay Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer   

1856  Felix Mottl, composer   

1857  Thirty-one people die when ship Lady Bird collides with another vessel off the State of Victoria in Australia.   

1857  The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history   

1858  Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning.   

1865  Ferdinand I VAM, king of Romania.   

1869  Waffle iron invented   

1869  Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron.   

1870  The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.   

1872  Sir Max Beerbohm, British writer and caricaturist is born.   

1872  Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review)   

1876  Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed   

1879  Rentaro Taki, composer.   

1880  Miles W L Killearn of Killearn, Scotish baron/diplomat.   

1886  William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty ships.   

1888  Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies   

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1113  Geoffrey plantagenet: France, conquered normandy   

1113  Geoffrey of anjou: Count of anjou   

1198  King alexander ii of scotland: King alexander ii of scotland (d. 1249)   

1210  Floris iv: Count of holland   

1358  King john i of castile: King john i of castile (d. 1390)   

1393  Arthur iii: Duke of brittany   

1420  Albrecht van eyb: German humanist/parson (bamberg & eichstattt)   

1531  Ercole bottrigari: Composer   

0079  Pliny the elder: Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)   

1103  Magnus iii berbein: [blootbeen], king of norway (1093-1103),   

1217  Eustace "the monk": French buccaneer,   

1313  Henry vii: Roman catholic german king/emperor (1308/12-13),   

1371  Eduard: Duke of gelre (1361-71), assasinated   

1540  Girolamo francesco maria mazzola: Italian painter (b. 1503)   

1542  Death of Gasparo contarini: Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)   

1572  Gaspard de châtillon: Count the coligny, french gen/admiral, beheaded