On This Day in History for March 24
Events in History
- 1379 End of Gelderse war victory
- 1401 Timur attacks city of Damascus, second city of the Mameluke Empire. Though scholar and negotiator Ibn Khaldūn's life spared, the city is sacked and the Umayyad Mosque destroyed.
- 1545 German Parliament opens in Worms
- 1550 France & England sign Peace of Boulogne
- 1603 Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns
- 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun, officially establishing the Tokugawa Shogunate which would rule Japan until 1867
- 1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
- 1731 Jerome (aka Hieronimus) de Salis naturalised as British by Act of Parliamentary.
- More Events in History
John Harrison
Joseph Priestley
Andrew Mellon
Thomas E. Dewey
Clyde Barrow
Dorothy HeightWeddings in History
- 1891 56th UK Prime Minister Bonar Law (32) weds Annie Robley at West Free Church in Helensburgh, Scotland
- 1896 Writer "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad (39) marries Englishwoman Jessie George (23)
- 1996 Former Atlanta mayor and UN ambassador Andrew Young (64) weds Carolyn Watson (49) in South Africa
Divorces in History
- 1994 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. divorces Emily Black
More Weddings & Divorces in History
Elizabeth I
Jules Verne
Bernard MontgomeryMarch in History
Tsar Goes a Step Too Far
For over 300 years Russia’s famous Romanov family possessed fabulous wealth and power, but it wasn’t enough to keep them out of reach of assassins.
March 23, 1801
John Manningham Notes the Passing of Queen Elizabeth I
John Manningham was an English lawyer and diarist who wrote this especially moving entry on the passing of Queen Elizabeth I.
March 24, 1603
Union of the Crowns
Royal badge of King James I & VI, a Tudor Rose joined to the Scottish Thistle, symbolizing the personal union of his realm
March 24, 1603
Rebel With a Cause: The Life of Shameless Shelley
A born rebel, the celebrated poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled on this day from the University of Oxford. He would go on to lead a short and tragic life.
March 25, 1811