Page 2: Historical Events In August - 24
Thursday, 03 April 2025
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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