Today in History
On This Day In History
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Mar 24, 1379 |
End of Gelderse war victory |
Mar 24, 1545 |
German Parliament opens in Worms |
Mar 24, 1550 |
France & England sign Peace of Boulogne |
Mar 24, 1603 |
Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns. |
Mar 24, 1629 |
1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia |
Mar 24, 1664 |
Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island |
Mar 24, 1721 |
Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates his Brandenburg Concertos (to the Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt) |
Mar 24, 1731 |
Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed. |
Mar 24, 1765 |
Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers |
Mar 24, 1792 |
Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London |
Mar 24, 1801 |
Aleksandr Pavlovich Romanov becomes Tsar Alexander I of Russia |
Mar 24, 1815 |
Handel & Haydn Society of Boston founded |
Mar 24, 1828 |
Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized |
Mar 24, 1832 |
Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio |
Mar 24, 1837 |
Canada gives black citizens the right to vote |
Mar 24, 1848 |
State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam |
Mar 24, 1855 |
Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas |
Mar 24, 1860 |
Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY |
Mar 24, 1868 |
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms |
Mar 24, 1877 |
University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat |
Mar 24, 1878 |
British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost |
Mar 24, 1880 |
Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT |
Mar 24, 1882 |
German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB |
Mar 24, 1883 |
1st telephone call between NY & Chicago |
Mar 24, 1887 |
Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey) |
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