What is August 24?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[79]] &ndash; [[Mount Vesuvius]] erupted, destroying [[Pompeii]], [[Herculaneum]] and [[Stabiae]]. The modern city of [[Naples]] now stands on the edge of the disaster area. * [[410]] &ndash; The [[Visigoths]] under King [[Alaric I]] begin to pillage [[Rome]]. * [[455]] &ndash; The [[Vandals]], led by King [[Genseric]], begin to plunder [[Rome]]. * [[1200]] &ndash; King [[John of England]] marries [[Isabella of Angoulême]] in [[Bordeaux]] [[Cathedral]]. * [[1215]] &ndash; [[Pope Innocent III]] declares [[Magna Carta]] invalid. * [[1349]] &ndash; 6000 [[Judaism|Jews]] are killed in [[Mainz]] after being blamed for the Bubonic Plague. * [[1391]] &ndash; Massacre on the [[Judaism|Jewish]] population of [[Palma de Mallorca]]. * [[1456]] &ndash; Printing of the Gutenberg [[Bible]] is completed. * [[1482]] &ndash; The [[town]] and [[castle]] of [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]] are captured from [[Scotland]] by [[England|English]] troops. * [[1516]] &ndash; The [[Ottoman Empire]] under [[Selim I]] defeats the [[Mamluk]] [[Sultan]]ate and captures present–day [[Syria]] at the [[Battle of Maq Dabiq]]. * [[1561]] &ndash; [[William of Orange]] marries [[Anne of Saxony]]. * [[1572]] &ndash; [[St. Batholomew's Day massacre]]: Start of a massacre of [[Huguenot]]s (French Protestants) under the orders of King [[Charles IX of France]]. * [[1608]] &ndash; The first English representative to [[India]] lands in Surat. * [[1662]] &ndash; The Act of Uniformity requires [[England]] to accept the [[Book of Common Prayer]]. * [[1682]] &ndash; [[William Penn]] adds present–day [[Delaware]] to his colony of [[Pennsylvania]]. * [[1812]] &ndash; [[Peninsular War]]: A coalition of [[Spain|Spanish]], [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Portugal|Portuguese]] forces succeeds in lifting the two–and–a–half–year–long [[Siege of Cadiz]]. * [[1814]] &ndash; British troops invade [[Washington, D.C.]], burning many buildings, including the [[White House]]. * [[1815]] &ndash; The modern [[Constitution]] of th