August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining.
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1 Events
1.1 upto 18th century
49 BC - Julius Caesar's general Gaius Curio is defeated in the Battle of the Bagradas River by the Pompeians under Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio is slain in battle.
1215 - Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta1215 placed certain checks on the absolute power of the monarchy. Magna Carta ( Latin: Great Charter , written in 1215, is an English charter which limited the power of English Kings, specifically King John, from absolute rule. In effect, Magna Carta requ invalid.
1349Events October 20 Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants The bubonic plague is spread to Norway when an English ship with everyone dead on board floats to Bergen Births Duke Albert III of Austria, on September 9 Deaths Willia - 6,000 Jews are killed in MainzMainz (French Mayence is a city in Germany, which is the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Introduction Mainz is located on the left bank of the river Rhine, opposite the confluence of the Main river with the Rhine. Population ( because they are blamed for the bubonic plagueBubonic plague is an infectious disease that is believed to have caused several epidemics or pandemics throughout history. Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague which causes swollen, tender lymph glands (called buboes); other forms are Septicem.
1391Events Many Jews left Barcelona after the 1391 massacres, though a large number remained in the city. Births October 31 King Duarte of Portugal († 1438) Gedun Drub, the first Dalai Lama Deaths February 16 Byzantine Emperor John V Palaeologus 1391. - Jews massacred in Palma de MallorcaPalma (old Spanish name Palma de Mallorca is the major city and port in the island of Majorca (in Catalan: Mallorca and capital city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of the island on the Bay o.
1456Events July 7 Joan of Arc acquitted (but she had already been executed). July 21 July 22. Battle of Belgrade. The Hungarians under John Hunyadi rout the Turkish army of Sultan Mehmed II August 20 Vladislav II, reigning Prince of Wallachia is killed in bat - The printing of the Gutenberg BibleThe Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible is a print of the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible that was printed by its namesake, Johann Gutenberg, in Mainz, Germany around 1454- 1455 using moveable type. This Bible is the most famous incuna is completed.
1998 - The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 PanAm bombing.
Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from New York) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
2003 - USSpacecraftVoyager 2 was 71 astronomical units distant from Earth and is escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.3 AU per year (ca. 15 km/s). It will be approximately 40,000 years before Voyager 2 approaches another planetary system.
2004 - Two airliners in Russia, carrying a total of 89 passengers, crash within minutes of each other after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow, leaving no survivors. Authorities suspect suicide attacks by rebels from the breakaway republic of Chechnya to be the cause of the crashes.