On This Day

August 1824 in History

Events in History

  • Aug 4 Battle of Kos is fought between Turks and Greeks

Victory in battleVictory in Battle

Aug 6 Battle at Junan - Simon Bolívar's army defeats the Spanish

Military and Political Leader Simón Bolívar
Military and Political Leader
Simón Bolívar
  • Aug 14 General Lafayette returns to US
  • Aug 15 Freed American slaves establish Liberia on the West African coast through the American Colonization Society (ACS)

Birthdays in History

  • Aug 3 William Burnham Woods, American politician, judge, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newark, Ohio (d. 1887)
  • Aug 8 Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880)
  • Aug 9 Simon Goodell Griffin, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newark, Ohio (d. 1887)
  • Aug 14 William Terry, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Amherst County, Virginia (d. 1888)
  • Aug 20 Absalom Baird, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Rockland, Maine (d. 1905)
  • Aug 21 John Sanford Mason, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Steubenville, Ohio (d. 1897)
  • Aug 27 Hiram Gregory Berry, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Thomaston, Main (d. 1863)
  • Aug 28 Carel van Nispen of Sevenaer, Dutch Catholic politician, born in Zevenaar, Netherlands (d. 1884)

Weddings in History


LoveWedding of Interest

Aug 3 Inventor Charles Goodyear (23) weds Clarissa Beecher

Chemist and Inventor Charles Goodyear
Chemist and Inventor
Charles Goodyear

Deaths in History

  • Aug 21 John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70