Historical Events In June - 24

1794  Bowdoin College is founded on this day in history.   

1795  On June - 24 uS & Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty   

1797  On June - 24 john Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx   

1803  On June - 24 george James Webb, composer   

1803  Matthew Thornton, Irish/US physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 88 on this day in history.   

1804  On this day in history stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botanist   

1806  On this day in history english under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires   

1808  On this day in history anna Caroline Oury, composer   

1811  On June - 24 john Archibald Campbell, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1889   

1813  On this day in history battle of Beaver Dam-British &Indian forces defeat US forces   

1813  Battle of Beaver Dam-British & Indian forces defeat US forces on this day in history.   

1813  On this day in history henry Ward Beecher, Litchfield Ct, clergyman/orator (Independent)   

1817  The first coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast on this day in history.   

1817  On this day in history 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast   

1817  Thomas McKean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 83 on June - 24.   

1820  Henry Rootes Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 on this day in history.   

1821  On this day in history battle of Carabobo; Bol¡var defeats royalists outside of Caracas   

1821  On June - 24 battle of Carabobo; Bolívar defeats royalists outside of Caracas   

1822  On this day in history birkett Davenport Fry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891   

1832  Edward Harland, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1915 on June - 24.   

1838  On June - 24 gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism)   

1839  On this day in history gustavus Franklin Swift, founded Swift & Co   

1840  On June - 24 louis Brassin, composer   

1841  Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx on June - 24.   

1842  On this day in history ambrose Bierce, US, satirist (Devil's Dictionary)   

1843  Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy on this day in history.   

1846  On this day in history residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished   

1847  On June - 24 gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer   

1848  Brooks Adams, US philosopher (Theory of Social Revolutions) on this day in history.   

1850  Horatio Herbert Kitchener, England, original Order of Merit member on this day in history.   

1852  On June - 24 j R Hind discovers asteroid #18 Melpomene   

1852  On this day in history victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister (1918)   

1853  On June - 24 gadsden Purchase 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square km) from Mexico (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce   

1859  On June - 24 battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria   

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1244  On this day in history birth of hendrik I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen (1256-1308)   

1322  On this day in history birth of johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry)   

1343  On this day in history birth of jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373)   

1386  On June - 24 birth of giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456)   

1485  On June - 24 birth of johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558)   

1499  On this day in history birth of johannes Brenz, German theologist (Dutch Brentians)   

1519  On June - 24 birth of theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605)   

1533  On June - 24 birth of robert Dudley, earl of Leicester/English commander-in-chief in Neth   

0803  On June - 24 death of higbald of Lindisfarne   

1398  Death of Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328) on this day in history.   

1439  On June - 24 death of duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382)   

1475  On June - 24 albrecht von Eyb, German parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt), dies at 54   

1519  On June - 24 lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander, dies at 39   

1520  Death of Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489) on this day in history.   

1572  Death of Adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged on June - 24.   

1604  On June - 24 death of edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550)