WHAT HAPPENED ON 24. JULY
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Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. (24. July 1132)

Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. (24. July 1148)

Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place. (24. July 1411)

Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against a ban on foreign beer. (24. July 1487)

French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France. (24. July 1534)

Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI. (24. July 1567)

Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan. (24. July 1701)

The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk. (24. July 1783)

War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders. (24. July 1814)

Slavery is abolished in Chile. (24. July 1823)

After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade. (24. July 1847)

American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley. (24. July 1864)

Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War. (24. July 1866)

O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank. (24. July 1901)

The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910. (24. July 1910)

Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas". (24. July 1911)

The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes. (24. July 1915)

The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923. (24. July 1922)

The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I. (24. July 1923)