1603 Queen Elizabeth I of England died in the early morning on March 24 1603 at Richmond Palace, of septic tonsils aged 70. She died in agony as she refused to go to bed standing up for hours trying to keep death away. Persuaded at last to rest upon cushions, Elizabeth was there for four days and nights before being carried to her bed. She used up her last breaths quarreling with her ministers about her successors. Her last words were muttered "All my possessions for one moment of life."
1603 As Queen Elizabeth I was the last of Henry VIII's descendants, James VI of Scotland was seen as the most likely heir to the English throne through his great-grandmother Margaret Tudor, who was Henry VIII's oldest sister. In March 1603, with the Queen clearly dying, her chief minister Sir Robert Cecil sent James a draft proclamation of his accession to the English throne. Elizabeth died in the early hours of March 24, 1603 and he was proclaimed King James I of England later the same day.
1656 On March 24, 1656, the great French mathematician Blaise Pascal's 10-year-old niece, Marguerite Périer, was healed of a painful incurable eye affliction by a Jansenist. The healing made a great impression on the public and all Catholic Paris acclaimed a miracle. Pascal regarded the event as confirming his belief in miracles, a belief that would later be incorporated his great apologetic work the Pensées.
1663 The Province of Carolina was granted by charter on March 24, 1663 to eight Lords Proprietors in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne. Carolina was originally named by King Charles II of England in honor of his father Charles I (Latin name Carolus). In 1712 the land was divided into present day North Carolina and South Carolina.
1721 The Brandenburg Concertos were six pieces written by Johann Sebastian Bach for the Count Brandenburg, to gain extra support for his work. He dedicated them to the Count on March 24, 1721.
The ploy didn't work as the Count's orchestra was too small to perform them and the manuscripts were discovered for sale on the Count's death in a job lot.
1733 English Separatist theologian, natural philosopher, and chemist Joseph Priestley was born on March 24, 1733, to an established English Dissenting family in Fieldhead, Birstall, Yorkshire. After his mother died when Joseph went to live with his aunt. Because Joseph was precocious—at the age of four he could flawlessly recite all 107 questions and answers of the Westminster Shorter Catechism—his Calvinist aunt sought the best education for the boy, intending him for the ministry.
1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 in the winter of 1785–86 and completed it on March 24, 1786. He premiered the work in early April 1786 at the Burgtheater in Vienna with Mozart himself playing the solo part and conducted the orchestra from the keyboard. When Ludwig van Beethoven heard the concerto in a rehearsal, he reportedly remarked to a colleague in admiration that "[we] shall never be able to do anything like that."
1820 The blind American hymn writer Fanny Crosby was born on March 24, 1820 in the village of Brewster, about 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City. She was incredibly prolific, penning over 8,000 hymns, more than any other person. Fanny was once asked if she wished that she hadn't been born without sight. She replied the good thing about being born blind is she knew the first face she would see would be the face of Jesus.
1829 Catholic emancipation was a process in the late 18th century and early 19th century that reduced and removed many of the restrictions on British and Irish Roman Catholics. The 1778 Catholic Relief Act lifted some of the restrictions on Catholics placing them in the same category as dissenters. The Home Secretary, Robert Peel, finally carried through the Catholic Emancipation Act on March 24, 1829, repealing the penal laws against the 200,000 British and Irish Catholics.
1834 English textile designer William Morris was born at Elm House in Walthamstow, Essex, on March 24, 1834. He was named after his father, a financier who worked as a partner in the Sanderson & Co. firm, bill brokers in the City of London. Educated at Marlborough College, William studied for holy orders at Oxford University, but renounced the Church, and changed to architecture.After his marriage in 1859, Morris began his career as a decorator.
1837 Lower Canada, now Quebec, gave black men the right to vote on March 24, 1837. However, public sentiment against extending the franchise to Blacks existed, and local conventions did prevent Black persons from voting. The prejudice and discrimination they faced affected Black peoples’ decision to attend polling stations.
1874 Harry Houdini was born Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary on March 24, 1874. His parents were Rabbi Mayer Sámuel Weisz, and Cecília Weisz (née Steiner;). Erik arrived in the United States in 1878, on the SS Fresia with his family. At the age of fifteen, Ehrich discovered the autobiography of the greatest conjurer of the nineteenth century, French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. Ehrich was fascinated by the book and stayed up all night reading it. He later stated that the work sparked his enthusiasm for magic.
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| Portrait of Elizabeth I attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger or his studio, c. 1595. |
1603 As Queen Elizabeth I was the last of Henry VIII's descendants, James VI of Scotland was seen as the most likely heir to the English throne through his great-grandmother Margaret Tudor, who was Henry VIII's oldest sister. In March 1603, with the Queen clearly dying, her chief minister Sir Robert Cecil sent James a draft proclamation of his accession to the English throne. Elizabeth died in the early hours of March 24, 1603 and he was proclaimed King James I of England later the same day.
1656 On March 24, 1656, the great French mathematician Blaise Pascal's 10-year-old niece, Marguerite Périer, was healed of a painful incurable eye affliction by a Jansenist. The healing made a great impression on the public and all Catholic Paris acclaimed a miracle. Pascal regarded the event as confirming his belief in miracles, a belief that would later be incorporated his great apologetic work the Pensées.
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| Marguerite Périer |
1663 The Province of Carolina was granted by charter on March 24, 1663 to eight Lords Proprietors in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne. Carolina was originally named by King Charles II of England in honor of his father Charles I (Latin name Carolus). In 1712 the land was divided into present day North Carolina and South Carolina.
1721 The Brandenburg Concertos were six pieces written by Johann Sebastian Bach for the Count Brandenburg, to gain extra support for his work. He dedicated them to the Count on March 24, 1721.
The ploy didn't work as the Count's orchestra was too small to perform them and the manuscripts were discovered for sale on the Count's death in a job lot.
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| Bach Brandenburg Concertos. Title Page. |
1733 English Separatist theologian, natural philosopher, and chemist Joseph Priestley was born on March 24, 1733, to an established English Dissenting family in Fieldhead, Birstall, Yorkshire. After his mother died when Joseph went to live with his aunt. Because Joseph was precocious—at the age of four he could flawlessly recite all 107 questions and answers of the Westminster Shorter Catechism—his Calvinist aunt sought the best education for the boy, intending him for the ministry.
1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 in the winter of 1785–86 and completed it on March 24, 1786. He premiered the work in early April 1786 at the Burgtheater in Vienna with Mozart himself playing the solo part and conducted the orchestra from the keyboard. When Ludwig van Beethoven heard the concerto in a rehearsal, he reportedly remarked to a colleague in admiration that "[we] shall never be able to do anything like that."
1820 The blind American hymn writer Fanny Crosby was born on March 24, 1820 in the village of Brewster, about 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City. She was incredibly prolific, penning over 8,000 hymns, more than any other person. Fanny was once asked if she wished that she hadn't been born without sight. She replied the good thing about being born blind is she knew the first face she would see would be the face of Jesus.
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| Birthplace of Fanny Crosby Wikipedia |
1829 Catholic emancipation was a process in the late 18th century and early 19th century that reduced and removed many of the restrictions on British and Irish Roman Catholics. The 1778 Catholic Relief Act lifted some of the restrictions on Catholics placing them in the same category as dissenters. The Home Secretary, Robert Peel, finally carried through the Catholic Emancipation Act on March 24, 1829, repealing the penal laws against the 200,000 British and Irish Catholics.
1834 English textile designer William Morris was born at Elm House in Walthamstow, Essex, on March 24, 1834. He was named after his father, a financier who worked as a partner in the Sanderson & Co. firm, bill brokers in the City of London. Educated at Marlborough College, William studied for holy orders at Oxford University, but renounced the Church, and changed to architecture.After his marriage in 1859, Morris began his career as a decorator.
1837 Lower Canada, now Quebec, gave black men the right to vote on March 24, 1837. However, public sentiment against extending the franchise to Blacks existed, and local conventions did prevent Black persons from voting. The prejudice and discrimination they faced affected Black peoples’ decision to attend polling stations.
1874 Harry Houdini was born Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary on March 24, 1874. His parents were Rabbi Mayer Sámuel Weisz, and Cecília Weisz (née Steiner;). Erik arrived in the United States in 1878, on the SS Fresia with his family. At the age of fifteen, Ehrich discovered the autobiography of the greatest conjurer of the nineteenth century, French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. Ehrich was fascinated by the book and stayed up all night reading it. He later stated that the work sparked his enthusiasm for magic.
1877 The closest finish in the history of the Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race came on March 24, 1877 when the event was declared a dead heat. Legend has it the judge declared a tie because he was asleep when the race finished.
1882 The lung disease tuberculosis was the scourge of the 18th and 19th centuries in the West wiping out thousands every year. By the middle of the 19th century it was responsible for one in seven of all European deaths. The cause was unknown until on March 24, 1882 Robert Koch discovered the bacterium causing it. Koch won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his groundbreaking research on tuberculosis.
1898 Alexander Winton sold his first automobile to mining engineer Robert Allison for $1,000 on March 24, 1898. The Winton Motor Carriage Company was a pioneer United States automobile manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio. Winton was one of the first American companies to sell a motor car.
1905 Ill with diabetes, the French novelist Jules Verne died aged 77 at his Amiens home on March 24, 1905. Verne was a prolific writer, known for his imaginative and visionary works such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the science fiction genre and his works have been translated into numerous languages and adapted for film and television.
1906 The "Census of the British Empire" revealed on March 24, 1906 that Britain ruled 23% of the world's population. This was during the peak of the British Empire's territorial expansion and influence, as it controlled vast territories across continents, including territories in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Australia.
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| The British Empire at its territorial peak in 1921 |
1933 The Enabling Act was passed in Germany on March 24, 1933 in a watershed moment for Adolf Hitler's rise to power. It allowed the Nazi leader to enact laws, including ones that violated the Weimar Constitution, without approval of either parliament or President von Hindenburg.
1934 The U.S. Congress passed the Tydings-McDuffie Act which came into effect on March 24, 1934, established the process for the Philippines, then an American colony, to become an independent country after a ten-year transition period. The following year, Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth after its new constitution was approved.
1944 On the night of March 24, 1944, 21 year old tail gunner of a Lancaster Bomber, Nicholas Alkemade, jumped from his aircraft after being shot down over Germany. He fell 18,000 feet (5,500 meters) without a parachute and survived with a sprained leg as his only injury.
1958 After being drafted, Elvis Presley was sworn into the U.S. Army at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, on March 24, 1958. Elvis was offered to enlist in Special Services to entertain the troops and live in priority housing, but decided to serve as a regular soldier, instead, earning the respect of fellow soldiers and people back home who previously viewed him negatively. Elvis went through regular training and then served as a tank driver in West Germany. He was promoted to sergeant two months before he left the army.
1976 On March 24, 1976, military leaders in Argentina led by Jorge Rafael Videla deposed President Isabel Perón in a coup d'état, established a military junta known as the National Reorganization Process, and began state-sponsored violence against dissidents known as the Dirty War.
1980 Oscar Romero, the Bishop of El Salvador, spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations, and torture in his country. He was murdered by unidentified gunmen while celebrating Mass on March 24, 1980. He was later declared a saint by Pope Francis.
2008 Bhutan, a small Himalayan kingdom, held its first ever general election on March 24, 2008, marking its transition from an absolute monarchy to a democratic constitutional monarchy. The Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party, led by Jigme Thinley, won 45 out of 47 seats in the country's National Assembly.
2014 On March 24, 2014, Vladimir Putin and Russia was suspended from the G8 inter-governmental political forum after its annexation of Crimea and military intervention in Eastern Ukraine; nevertheless, they stopped short of outright permanent expulsion. Three years later, Russia announced that it would permanently leave the G8, resulting in the grouping returning to its previous name of G7.
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