Day Month

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.
1673 - Edmond Halley + enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate.
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.