Page 2: 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 this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1690  Job Charnock founds Calcutta India on this day in history.   

1694  Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25] on August - 24.   

1704  Sea battle at Malaga on this day in history.   

1712  On August - 24 cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer   

1712  On August - 24 thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54   

1724  The birth of George Stubbs, British painter on this day in history.   

1724  Andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1725  On this day in history johann Balthasar Kehl, composer   

1733  David Traugott Nicolai, composer on August - 24.   

1751  On August - 24 thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch   

1759  William Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade on August - 24.   

1759  On August - 24 ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44   

1770  On August - 24 thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies   

1772  Willem I Frederik, grand duke of Luxembourg/king of Neth (1814-40) on this day in history.   

1787  Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526 on August - 24.   

1787  James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea) on August - 24.   

1789  The birth of James Wedell, Scottish Antarctic explorer on August - 24.   

1801  Jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68 on August - 24.   

1808  On this day in history benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

1814  On this day in history british sack Washington, DC, White House burned   

1814  Washington, D.C. is burned by the British on August - 24.   

1814  On this day in history british forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks   

1816  On this day in history the Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.   

1816  On this day in history daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables   

1817  On August - 24 aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [OS]   

1820  On this day in history constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.   

1820  On August - 24 jacopo Tomadini, composer   

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1113  On August - 24 birth of geoffrey Plantagenet, France, conquered Normandy   

1113  On August - 24 birth of geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)   

1198  King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249) was born on this day in history.   

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

1358  On August - 24 birth of king John I of Castile (d. 1390)   

1393  On August - 24 birth of arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)   

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 this day in history.   

1103  Magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies on August - 24.   

1217  On August - 24 eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle   

1313  Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies on August - 24.   

1371  On August - 24 death of eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated   

1540  Death of Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503) on this day in history.   

1542  On August - 24 death of gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)   

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