WHAT HAPPENED ON 24. AUGUST
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Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture. (24. August 49. BC)

Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash (note: this traditional date has been challenged, and many scholars believe that the event occurred on October 24). (24. August 79)

The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome. (24. August 410)

The Vandals, led by king Genseric, begin to plunder Rome. Pope Leo I requests Genseric not destroy the ancient city or murder its citizens. He agrees and the gates of Rome are opened. However, the Vandals loot a great amount of treasure. (24. August 455)

Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans. (24. August 1185)

King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Bordeaux Cathedral. (24. August 1200)

Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid. (24. August 1215)

Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague. (24. August 1349)

Jews are massacred in Palma de Mallorca. (24. August 1391)

The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed. (24. August 1456)

The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army (24. August 1482)

The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq. (24. August 1516)

Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony. (24. August 1561)

The first official English representative to India lands in Surat. (24. August 1608)

The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer. (24. August 1662)

William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania. (24. August 1682)

Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday). (24. August 1690)

Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz. (24. August 1812)

British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze. (24. August 1814)

The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed. (24. August 1815)