Page 3: Historical Events In June - 24

1794  Bowdoin College is founded on this day in history.   

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

1797  On June - 24 john Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx   

1803  George James Webb, composer on June - 24.   

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  On this day in history english under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires   

1808  On June - 24 anna Caroline Oury, composer   

1811  John Archibald Campbell, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1889 on June - 24.   

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

1813  On June - 24 battle of Beaver Dam-British & Indian forces defeat US forces   

1813  On June - 24 henry Ward Beecher, Litchfield Ct, clergyman/orator (Independent)   

1817  On June - 24 the first coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast   

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

1817  Thomas McKean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 83 on June - 24.   

1820  Henry Rootes Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 on this day in history.   

1821  On June - 24 battle of Carabobo; Bol¡var defeats royalists outside of Caracas   

1821  On this day in history battle of Carabobo; Bolívar defeats royalists outside of Caracas   

1822  On this day in history birkett Davenport Fry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891   

1832  Edward Harland, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1915 on June - 24.   

1838  On this day in history gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism)   

1839  On June - 24 gustavus Franklin Swift, founded Swift & Co   

1840  On June - 24 louis Brassin, composer   

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

1842  On this day in history ambrose Bierce, US, satirist (Devil's Dictionary)   

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

1846  Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished on June - 24.   

1847  Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer on June - 24.   

1848  Brooks Adams, US philosopher (Theory of Social Revolutions) on June - 24.   

1850  Horatio Herbert Kitchener, England, original Order of Merit member on this day in history.   

1852  On June - 24 j R Hind discovers asteroid #18 Melpomene   

1852  On June - 24 victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister (1918)   

1853  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 on June - 24.   

1859  Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria on this day in history.   

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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  Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456) was born on this day in history.   

1485  On this day in history birth of johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558)   

1499  On June - 24 birth of johannes Brenz, German theologist (Dutch Brentians)   

1519  On this day in history birth of theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605)   

1533  Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester/English commander-in-chief in Neth was born on this day in history.   

0803  On this day in history death of higbald of Lindisfarne   

1398  Death of Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328) on this day in history.   

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  Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander, dies at 39 on June - 24.   

1520  On this day in history death of hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)   

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)