March 24 Historical Events

The following events took place on March 24. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 47 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1401
  Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
• 1603
  James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
• 1603
  Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.
• 1663
  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.
• 1707
  The Acts of Union 1707 are signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms and parliaments of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1720
  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 Mary in the British Isles, but after the Riksdag of the Estates said no to this, she chose to abdicate the throne in his favour instead.
• 1721
  Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.
• 1731
  Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
• 1765
  American Revolution: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
• 1829
  Catholic emancipation: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
• 1832
  In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
• 1837
  Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
• 1854
  Slavery is abolished in Venezuela.
• 1860
  Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke.
• 1869
  The last of Titokowaru’s forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.

• 1878
  The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
• 1882
  Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
• 1885
  Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin–Guangxi border.
• 1896
  A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
• 1900
  Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground “Rapid Transit Railroad” that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
• 1907
  The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
• 1922
  Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, Northern Irish policemen break into the home of a Catholic family and shoot eight males inside, killing six.
• 1927
  Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
• 1934
  United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
• 1944
  Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
• 1944
  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.
• 1946
  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.
• 1958
  Rock ‘n’roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
• 1959
  The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keïta.
• 1965
  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.