July-24
1345 -
Jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered.
1380 -
Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint, is born.
1487 -
Citizens of Leeuwarden Neth rebel against ban on foreign beer.
1534 -
Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France.
1554 -
Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem.
1567 -
Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate & 1-year-old James VI becomes King of Scotland.
1577 -
Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur.
1577 -
Treason of Don Juan in Brussels.
1580 -
Frederick II of Denmark and Norway banned the Formula of Concord from his kingdom.
1581 -
States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange.
1651 -
Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va.
1652 -
Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32.
1683 -
1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord.
1686 -
Benedetto Marcello, composer [or Aug 9], is born.
1692 -
French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein).
1701 -
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
1704 -
Istv n Gy”ngy”si, Hungarian poet (Janos Kem‚ny), dies in battle.
1704 -
English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar.
1712 -
Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army.
1712 -
Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies.
1720 -
Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik, is born.
1738 -
Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart), is born.
1739 -
Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday.
1745 -
Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII.
1756 -
George Vertue, engraver, dies.
1758 -
George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess.
1758 -
John Dyer, poet, dies.
1759 -
Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21), is born.
1783 -
Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia.
1783 -
Sim˘n Bolˇvar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule, is born.
1793 -
France passes 1st copyright law.
1796 -
John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Sec of State (1849-50), is born.
1796 -
Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman, is born.
1798 -
John Adams Dix, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879, is born.
1799 -
William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York.