Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
32701March 24Event1401 – Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
32702March 24Event1603 – James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
32703March 24Event1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.
32704March 24Event1663 – 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.
32705March 24Event1707 – The Acts of Union 1707 are signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms and parliaments of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
32706March 24Event1720 – 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
32707March 24Event1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.
32708March 24Event1731 – Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
32709March 24Event1765 – American Revolution: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
32710March 24Event1829 – Catholic emancipation: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
32711March 24Event1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
32712March 24Event1837 – Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
32713March 24Event1854 – Slavery is abolished in Venezuela.
32714March 24Event1860 – Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke.
32715March 24Event1869 – The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
32716March 24Event1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
32717March 24Event1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
32718March 24Event1885 – Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin–Guangxi border.
32719March 24Event1896 – A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
32720March 24Event1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
32721March 24Event1907 – The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
32722March 24Event1922 – Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, Northern Irish policemen break into the home of a Catholic family and shoot eight males inside, killing six.
32723March 24Event1927 – Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
32724March 24Event1934 – United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
32725March 24Event1944 – Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
32726March 24Event1944 – 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.
32727March 24Event1946 – 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.
32728March 24Event1958 – Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
32729March 24Event1959 – The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keïta.
32730March 24Event1965 – 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.

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