Page 3: Historical Events In June - 24

1794  Bowdoin College is founded on June - 24.   

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

1797  On this day in history john Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx   

1803  On this day in history george James Webb, composer   

1803  Matthew Thornton, Irish/US physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 88 on this day in history.   

1804  Stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botanist on this day in history.   

1806  On June - 24 english under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires   

1808  Anna Caroline Oury, composer on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1813  On this day in history battle of Beaver Dam-British & Indian forces defeat US forces   

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

1817  The first coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast on this day in history.   

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

1817  On June - 24 thomas McKean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 83   

1820  On this day in history henry Rootes Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898   

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

1821  Battle of Carabobo; Bolívar defeats royalists outside of Caracas on this day in history.   

1822  On June - 24 birkett Davenport Fry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891   

1832  Edward Harland, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1915 on this day in history.   

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 June - 24.   

1842  On June - 24 ambrose Bierce, US, satirist (Devil's Dictionary)   

1843  Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy on this day in history.   

1846  On this day in history residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished   

1847  On this day in history gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer   

1848  On this day in history brooks Adams, US philosopher (Theory of Social Revolutions)   

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

1852  J R Hind discovers asteroid #18 Melpomene on this day in history.   

1852  Victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister (1918) on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of hendrik I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen (1256-1308)   

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  On June - 24 birth of giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456)   

1485  Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558) was born on June - 24.   

1499  Johannes Brenz, German theologist (Dutch Brentians) was born on June - 24.   

1519  Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605) was born on this day in history.   

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 June - 24.   

1439  Death of Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382) on this day in history.   

1475  On this day in history albrecht von Eyb, German parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt), dies at 54   

1519  On June - 24 lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander, dies at 39   

1520  On June - 24 death of hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)   

1572  On this day in history death of adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged   

1604  Death of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550) on this day in history.