Day In History
This Day in History
Today: July 24, 2026
1132
Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1148
Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1304
Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
1411
Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1412
Behnam Hadloyo becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.[1]
1487
Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer.
1534
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.
1567
Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and be replaced by her one-year-old son James VI.
1701
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
1712
War of the Spanish Succession: The French under Marshal Villars win a decisive victory over Eugene of Savoy at Denain.[2]
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