The following events took place on August 24. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 66 events. Showing 1 - 20.
- 49 BCJulius Caesar’s general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Battle of the Bagradas (49 BC) by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
- 79Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash (note: this traditional date has been challenged, and many scholars believe that the event occurred on October 24).
- 394The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, was written.
- 410The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
- 455The Vandals, led by king Genseric, begin to plunder Rome. Pope Leo I requests Genseric not destroy the ancient city or murder its citizens. He agrees and the gates of Rome are opened. However, the Vandals loot a great amount of treasure.
- 1185Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.
- 1200King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Bordeaux Cathedral.
- 1215Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
- 1349Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
- 1391Jews are massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
- 1456The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
- 1482The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army
- 1516The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.
- 1561Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
- 1608The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
- 1662The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
- 1682William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
- 1690Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday).
- 1781American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.
- 1812Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
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