Page 2: Historical Events In August - 24

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 this day in history duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn   

1683  Meinrad Spiess, composer on August - 24.   

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

1690  On August - 24 job Charnock establishes an English trading post in West Bengal, considered the official founding of India's largest city, Calcutta.   

1690  On August - 24 job Charnock founds Calcutta India   

1694  On August - 24 theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25]   

1704  Sea battle at Malaga on August - 24.   

1712  On August - 24 cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer   

1712  On this day in history thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54   

1724  On this day in history the birth of George Stubbs, British painter   

1724  Andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1759  Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44 on this day in history.   

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 August - 24.   

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

1787  On August - 24 james Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)   

1789  The birth of James Wedell, Scottish Antarctic explorer on August - 24.   

1801  On this day in history jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68   

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  On August - 24 washington, D.C. is burned by the British.   

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  On this day in history daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables   

1817  On this day in history aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [OS]   

1820  Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century on this day in history.   

1820  On August - 24 jacopo Tomadini, composer   

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1113  Geoffrey Plantagenet, France, conquered Normandy was born on this day in history.   

1113  On August - 24 birth of geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)   

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

1210  Floris IV, Count of Holland was born on August - 24.   

1358  King John I of Castile (d. 1390) was born on August - 24.   

1393  Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458) was born on this day in history.   

1420  On August - 24 birth of albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt)   

1531  On August - 24 birth of ercole Bottrigari, composer   

0079  On this day in history death of pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)   

1103  Magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies on August - 24.   

1217  Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle on August - 24.   

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

1371  Death of Eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated on August - 24.   

1540  On August - 24 death of girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)   

1542  On this day in history death of gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)   

1572  On this day in history death of gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded