Page 2: Historical Events In August - 24
Saturday, 18 January 2025
1669 Alessandro Marcello, composer on this day in history.
1680 On this day in history death of Colonel (Thomas) Blood, Irish adventurer who stole Crown Jewels from Tower of London in 1671.
1680 Ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried on this day in history.
1682 Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn on this day in history.
1683 Meinrad Spiess, composer on August - 24.
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 Job Charnock founds Calcutta India on this day in history.
1694 On this day in history theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25]
1704 On August - 24 sea battle at Malaga
1712 Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer on August - 24.
1712 On this day in history 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 August - 24 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 this day in history.
1759 On August - 24 ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44
1770 Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies on this day in history.
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 On this day in history james Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)
1789 On this day in history the birth of James Wedell, Scottish Antarctic explorer
1801 Jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68 on this day in history.
1808 On this day in history benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1814 British sack Washington, DC, White House burned on this day in history.
1814 On August - 24 washington, D.C. is burned by the British.
1814 British forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks on this day in history.
1816 The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri on this day in history.
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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