Page 2: Historical Events In August - 24

1669  Alessandro Marcello, composer on this day in history.   

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  Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn on this day in history.   

1683  On this day in history 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  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  Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer on this day in history.   

1712  Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54 on August - 24.   

1724  The birth of George Stubbs, British painter on August - 24.   

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  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  Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies on August - 24.   

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 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 this day in history.   

1808  On August - 24 benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

1814  British sack Washington, DC, White House burned on August - 24.   

1814  Washington, D.C. is burned by the British on this day in history.   

1814  British forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks on August - 24.   

1816  On August - 24 the Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.   

1816  Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables on August - 24.   

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  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 August - 24.   

1198  On this day in history birth of king Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)   

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

1358  King John I of Castile (d. 1390) was born on this day in history.   

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  Ercole Bottrigari, composer was born on August - 24.   

0079  On August - 24 death of pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)   

1103  On August - 24 magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies   

1217  Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle on this day in history.   

1313  On August - 24 henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies   

1371  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)   

1572  Death of Gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded on August - 24.