Historical Events In August - 24

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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1113  On this day in history birth of geoffrey Plantagenet, France, conquered Normandy   

1113  On this day in history birth of geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)   

1198  On August - 24 birth of king Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)   

1210  On August - 24 birth of floris IV, Count of Holland   

1358  On this day in history birth of king John I of Castile (d. 1390)   

1393  Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458) was born on August - 24.   

1420  Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt) was born on August - 24.   

1531  On this day in history birth of ercole Bottrigari, composer   

0079  Death of Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23) on August - 24.   

1103  Magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies on this day in history.   

1217  On this day in history eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle   

1313  Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies on this day in history.   

1371  On this day in history death of eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated   

1540  On August - 24 death of girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)   

1542  Death of Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483) on this day in history.   

1572  On August - 24 death of gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded