On This Day in History
Discover what happened on any day in history.
March 24
424 events found
Harun al-Rashid, Arab caliph (born 763)
death
Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury
death
Yue Fei, Chinese military general (died 1142)
birth
King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
event
Hugh III of Cyprus (born 1235)
death
Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
death
Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (born 1332)
death
English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate.
event
Walter Hilton, English mystic and saint (born 1340)
death
Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (bornc. 1320)
death
Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
event
Ernest, Elector of Saxony, German ruler of Saxony (died 1486)
birth
James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (born 1371)
death
Pope Nicholas V (born 1397)
death
Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (died 1555)
birth
Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (born 1470)
death
Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimyō (born 1514)[citation needed]
death
Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author (born 1488)
death
Francis, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin (died 1620)
birth
James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
event
Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.
event
Elizabeth I of England (born 1533)
death
Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (died 1667)
birth
Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1685)
birth
Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (born 1587)
death
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