Top Historical Events That Happened on June 24

1794  Bowdoin College is founded   

1795  US and Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty   

1797  John Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx.   

1803  George James Webb, composer.   

1803  Matthew Thornton, Irish/US physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 88   

1804  Stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botanist   

1806  English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires.   

1808  Anna Caroline Oury, composer   

1811  John Archibald Campbell, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1889   

1813  Battle of Beaver Dam-British and Indian forces defeat US forces   

1813  Henry Ward Beecher, Litchfield Ct, clergyman/orator (Independent).   

1817  The inaugural coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast.   

1817  1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast   

1817  Thomas McKean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 83   

1820  Henry Rootes Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898.   

1821  Battle of Carabobo; Bol¡var defeats royalists outside of Caracas   

1822  Birkett Davenport Fry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891.   

1832  Edward Harland, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1915.   

1838  Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism)   

1839  Gustavus Franklin Swift, founded Swift and Co.   

1840  Louis Brassin, composer.   

1841  Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx   

1842  Ambrose Bierce, US, satirist (Devil's Dictionary)   

1843  Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy.   

1846  Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished.   

1847  Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer   

1848  Brooks Adams, US philosopher (Theory of Social Revolutions)   

1850  Horatio Herbert Kitchener, England, original Order of Merit member   

1852  J R Hind discovers asteroid #18 Melpomene   

1852  Victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister (1918)   

1853  Gadsden Purchase 29670-square-mile (76800 square km) from Mexico (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce.   

1859  Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria.   

1861  Tennessee is recorded as becoming 11th ( and last) state to secede from US   

1861  Battle of Mathias Point, VA-US attacks Confederate batteries.   

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1244  Hendrik i: The child, 1st count of hessen (1256-1308)   

1322  Johanna: Duchess of brabant/limburg (joyful entry)   

1343  Jeanne de valois: Queen of navarre   

1386  Giovanni da capistrano: Italian saint   

1485  Johannes bugenhagen: German reformer   

1499  Johannes brenz: German theologist (dutch brentians)   

1519  Theodore beza: French theologian   

1533  Robert dudley: Earl of leicester/english commander-in-chief in neth   

0803  Higbald of lindisfarne: Higbald of lindisfarne   

1398  Death of Hongwu emperor of china: Hongwu emperor of china (b. 1328)   

1439  Duke frederick iv of austria: Duke frederick iv of austria (b. 1382)   

1475  Death of Albrecht von eyb: German parson (bamberg & eichstattt),   

1519  Lucrezia borgia: Daughter of pope alexander,   

1520  Death of Hosokawa sumimoto: Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)   

1572  Adrianus van gouda: Lay brother, hanged   

1604  Edward de vere: 17th earl of oxford, lord great chamberlain of england (b. 1550)