| 32701 | March 24 | Event | 1401 – Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. |
| 32702 | March 24 | Event | 1603 – James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I. |
| 32703 | March 24 | Event | 1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan. |
| 32704 | March 24 | Event | 1663 – The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne. |
| 32705 | March 24 | Event | 1707 – The Acts of Union 1707 are signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms and parliaments of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
| 32706 | March 24 | Event | 1720 – Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February. She had been wanting to rule jointly with her husband in the same manner as William and |
| 32707 | March 24 | Event | 1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051. |
| 32708 | March 24 | Event | 1731 – Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed. |
| 32709 | March 24 | Event | 1765 – American Revolution: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops. |
| 32710 | March 24 | Event | 1829 – Catholic emancipation: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament. |
| 32711 | March 24 | Event | 1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith. |
| 32712 | March 24 | Event | 1837 – Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote. |
| 32713 | March 24 | Event | 1854 – Slavery is abolished in Venezuela. |
| 32714 | March 24 | Event | 1860 – Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke. |
| 32715 | March 24 | Event | 1869 – The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising. |
| 32716 | March 24 | Event | 1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300. |
| 32717 | March 24 | Event | 1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis. |
| 32718 | March 24 | Event | 1885 – Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin–Guangxi border. |
| 32719 | March 24 | Event | 1896 – A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history. |
| 32720 | March 24 | Event | 1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. |
| 32721 | March 24 | Event | 1907 – The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published. |
| 32722 | March 24 | Event | 1922 – Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, Northern Irish policemen break into the home of a Catholic family and shoot eight males inside, killing six. |
| 32723 | March 24 | Event | 1927 – Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city. |
| 32724 | March 24 | Event | 1934 – United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth. |
| 32725 | March 24 | Event | 1944 – Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome. |
| 32726 | March 24 | Event | 1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III. |
| 32727 | March 24 | Event | 1946 – The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership. |
| 32728 | March 24 | Event | 1958 – Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army. |
| 32729 | March 24 | Event | 1959 – The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keïta. |
| 32730 | March 24 | Event | 1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing. |