Page 3: Historical Events In June - 24

1794  On June - 24 bowdoin College is founded.   

1795  On this day in history uS & Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty   

1797  John Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx on this day in history.   

1803  On June - 24 george James Webb, composer   

1803  On June - 24 matthew Thornton, Irish/US physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 88   

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

1806  English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires on this day in history.   

1808  Anna Caroline Oury, composer on this day in history.   

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

1813  Battle of Beaver Dam-British &Indian forces defeat US forces on June - 24.   

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

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 June - 24.   

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

1817  On June - 24 thomas McKean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 83   

1820  Henry Rootes Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 on June - 24.   

1821  Battle of Carabobo; Bol¡var defeats royalists outside of Caracas on this day in history.   

1821  Battle of Carabobo; Bolívar defeats royalists outside of Caracas on June - 24.   

1822  Birkett Davenport Fry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 on this day in history.   

1832  On June - 24 edward Harland, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1915   

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

1839  Gustavus Franklin Swift, founded Swift & Co on this day in history.   

1840  On this day in history louis Brassin, composer   

1841  Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx on this day in history.   

1842  Ambrose Bierce, US, satirist (Devil's Dictionary) on this day in history.   

1843  On June - 24 vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy   

1846  On June - 24 residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished   

1847  Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer on this day in history.   

1848  On this day in history brooks Adams, US philosopher (Theory of Social Revolutions)   

1850  On this day in history horatio Herbert Kitchener, England, original Order of Merit member   

1852  J R Hind discovers asteroid #18 Melpomene on June - 24.   

1852  Victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister (1918) on this day in history.   

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  Hendrik I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen (1256-1308) was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history 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  Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605) was born on this day in history.   

1533  Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester/English commander-in-chief in Neth was born on June - 24.   

0803  On this day in history death of higbald of Lindisfarne   

1398  On June - 24 death of hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328)   

1439  Death of Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382) on June - 24.   

1475  Albrecht von Eyb, German parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt), dies at 54 on June - 24.   

1519  On this day in history lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander, dies at 39   

1520  Death of Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489) on June - 24.   

1572  Death of Adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged on this day in history.   

1604  On this day in history death of edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550)