SomeFacts | February 24

On this day - February 24

484 — King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ...

1303 — The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First ...

1386 — King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.

1525 — A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of ...

1527 — Coronation of Ferdinand I as the king of Bohemia in Prague.

1538 — Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and ...

1582 — With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII ...

1597 — The last battle of the Cudgel War takes place on the ...

1607 — L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works ...

1711 — Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera ...

1739 — Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats ...

1803 — In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States ...

1809 — Britain invades and captures the French colony of Martinique.

1809 — London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving ...

1812 — Treaty of Paris between Napoleon and Frederick William III of ...

1813 — Sinking of HMS Peacock by USS Hornet on the Demerara River, ...

1821 — Final stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain with ...

1822 — The first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan ...

1826 — The signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marks the end of the ...

1831 — The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty ...

1848 — King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.

1854 — A Penny Red with perforations becomes the first perforated ...

1863 — Arizona is organized as a United States territory.

1868 — Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United ...

1875 — The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off ...

1876 — The stage première of Peer Gynt, a play by Henrik Ibsen with ...

1881 — China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.

1895 — Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, ...

1916 — The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called ...

1917 — World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the ...

1918 — Estonian Declaration of Independence.

1920 — The Nazi Party (NSDAP) is founded by Adolf Hitler in the ...

1920 — Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of ...

1942 — The Battle of Los Angeles: A false alarm leads to an ...

1942 — Seven hundred ninety-one Romanian Jewish refugees and crew ...

1943 — World War II: First large-scale protest march resulting in ...

1945 — Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament ...

1946 — Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that ...

1949 — The Armistice Agreements are signed, to formally end the ...

1966 — Ghanaian coup d'état by National Liberation Council ...

1967 — Cultural Revolution: Zhang Chunqiao announces the dissolution ...

1968 — Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnamese ...

1971 — The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central ...

1976 — The 1976 constitution of Cuba is formally proclaimed.

1978 — The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their ...

1981 — The 6.7 Ms Gulf of Corinth earthquake affects Central Greece ...

1983 — A special commission of the United States Congress condemns ...

1984 — Tyrone Mitchell perpetrates the 49th Street Elementary School ...

1989 — United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from ...

1991 — Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and ...

1996 — Two civilian airplanes operated by the Miami-based group ...

1999 — China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 ...

2004 — The 6.3 Mw Al Hoceima earthquake strikes northern Morocco with ...

2006 — Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares ...

2007 — Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ...

2008 — Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council ...

2011 — Space Shuttle Discovery launches on its final mission, STS-133.

2015 — A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a ...

2016 — Tara Air Flight 193, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter ...

2020 — Mahathir Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia ...

2022 — Russo-Ukrainian War: Days after recognising Donetsk and ...