On April 24, history records 38 notable events, 187 famous births and 70 deaths, spanning the years 1547 to 1915.
Events on this day include: Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League. (1547); Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris. (1558).
Notable people born on April 24 include Ramiro II of Aragon (1086), Sabina of Bavaria (1492), Thomas Lucy (1532).
Notable figures who died on this day include Mellitus (624), Petronille de Chemillé (1149), Gertrude of Austria (1288).
Events on 24 April 38
See all →Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
The Franck-Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
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Birthdays on 24 April 187
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Deaths on 24 April 70
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