Day In History
This Day in History
Today: August 24, 2026
367
Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father.[1]
394
The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written.[2]
410
The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
1185
Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.
1200
King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Angoulême Cathedral.[3]
1215
Pope Innocent III issues a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid.[4]
1349
Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.[5]
1482
The town and castle of Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army.[6]
1516
The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.[7]
1561
Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.[8]
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