Historical Events In August - 24
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1669 On August - 24 alessandro Marcello, composer
1680 Death of Colonel (Thomas) Blood, Irish adventurer who stole Crown Jewels from Tower of London in 1671 on August - 24.
1680 On August - 24 ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried
1682 On August - 24 duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1683 On August - 24 meinrad Spiess, composer
1690 On August - 24 calcutta, India, is founded by the British East India Company.
1690 Job Charnock establishes an English trading post in West Bengal, considered the official founding of India's largest city, Calcutta on August - 24.
1690 On this day in history job Charnock founds Calcutta India
1694 Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25] on August - 24.
1704 On August - 24 sea battle at Malaga
1712 On this day in history cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer
1712 On August - 24 thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54
1724 On August - 24 the birth of George Stubbs, British painter
1724 Andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75 on August - 24.
1725 Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer on this day in history.
1733 On this day in history david Traugott Nicolai, composer
1751 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch on August - 24.
1759 On August - 24 william Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade
1759 Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44 on August - 24.
1770 Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies on August - 24.
1772 Willem I Frederik, grand duke of Luxembourg/king of Neth (1814-40) on August - 24.
1787 Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526 on August - 24.
1787 On this day in history james Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)
1789 On August - 24 the birth of James Wedell, Scottish Antarctic explorer
1801 Jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68 on August - 24.
1808 Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army) on August - 24.
1814 On August - 24 british sack Washington, DC, White House burned
1814 On August - 24 washington, D.C. is burned by the British.
1814 British forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks on August - 24.
1816 The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri on this day in history.
1816 Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables on this day in history.
1817 Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [OS] on this day in history.
1820 Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century on this day in history.
1820 Jacopo Tomadini, composer on August - 24.
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