On this day 24th August in 79 - Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die 410 - Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire 1215 - Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid 1217 - Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France 1349 - 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz 1349 - Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism 1391 - Jews of Palma Majorca massacred 1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed. 1511 - Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca. 1516 - Battle at Aleppo: Turks beat Syria 1542 - Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain 1561 - Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon 1572 - St. Bartholomews Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces 1608 - 1st English convoy lands at Surat, India 1654 - Louis II Condé disbands ends of Atrecht 1658 - Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish 1662 - Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer 1682 - Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn 1690 - Job Charnock founds Calcutta India 1936 - Australian Antarctic Territory created Births 1113 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, France, conquered Normandy (d. 1151) 1198 - King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249) 1210 - Floris IV, Count of Holland 1358 - King John I of Castile (d. 1390) 1393 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458) 1420 - Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt) 1531 - Ercole Bottrigari, composer 1552 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614) 1579 - John Amner, composer 1580 - John Taylor, English poet (d. 1654) 1591 - Robert Herrick, England, poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized) 1635 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699) 1683 - Meinrad Spiess, composer 1694 - Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king 1787 - James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea) Deaths 1103 - Magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103) 1217 - Eustace the Monk, French buccaneer, dies in battle 1313 - Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13) 1371 - Eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated 1540 - Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503) 1542 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483) 1572 - Gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral and Huguenot leader, beheaded 1572 - Death of thousands of French Protestants by Roman Catholics in the St. Bartholomews Day Massacre, beginning in Paris 1572 - Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515) 1572 - Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier (bc. 1535) 1595 - Thomas Digges, English astronomer (Universe Infinite) 1647 - Nicholas Stone Elder, English sculptor/architect, 61 1664 - Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (bc. 1610) 1666 - Francisco M the Melo, Portuguese author (Obras Morales), 57 1679 - Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614) 1680 - Ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried 1680 - Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels 1683 - John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
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