Historical Events In August - 24

1669  Alessandro Marcello, composer on August - 24.   

1680  Death of Colonel (Thomas) Blood, Irish adventurer who stole Crown Jewels from Tower of London in 1671 on August - 24.   

1680  Ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried on August - 24.   

1682  Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn on August - 24.   

1683  On August - 24 meinrad Spiess, composer   

1690  Calcutta, India, is founded by the British East India Company on this day in history.   

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  On August - 24 job Charnock founds Calcutta India   

1694  Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25] on this day in history.   

1704  Sea battle at Malaga on August - 24.   

1712  Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer on August - 24.   

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

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

1724  On August - 24 andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75   

1725  Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer on this day in history.   

1733  On August - 24 david Traugott Nicolai, composer   

1751  Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch on August - 24.   

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  On this day in history willem I Frederik, grand duke of Luxembourg/king of Neth (1814-40)   

1787  Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526 on this day in history.   

1787  James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1808  Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army) on August - 24.   

1814  On August - 24 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 August - 24 the Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.   

1816  Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables on this day in history.   

1817  Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [OS] on August - 24.   

1820  Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century on August - 24.   

1820  Jacopo Tomadini, composer on August - 24.   

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

1113  Geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151) was born on this day in history.   

1198  King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249) was born on August - 24.   

1210  Floris IV, Count of Holland was born on this day in history.   

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

1393  On this day in history 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  On August - 24 death of pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)   

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

1572  Death of Gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded on this day in history.